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Oct. 23rd, 2005 09:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
my_window_seatHave been eyeballs-deep in the French Revolution for the last couple of weeks. Am still working on the essay to go with the take home final. Am going a wee bit bonkers at this point.
I don't know how anyone who takes up the study of history as a vocation can have any faith at all in humanity. Or can even work up the energy to be either surprised or disturbed by current events.
As ghastly a shape as the world is apparently in right now, by Christ, it's nothing compared to what we've come from. All of human civilization and the comforts of society that we currently enjoy are built on the eviscerated corpses of billions of people who died fighting for or opposing it in one way or another.
Humanity is the most virulent plague the Earth has ever endured.
Gah.
I don't know how anyone who takes up the study of history as a vocation can have any faith at all in humanity. Or can even work up the energy to be either surprised or disturbed by current events.
As ghastly a shape as the world is apparently in right now, by Christ, it's nothing compared to what we've come from. All of human civilization and the comforts of society that we currently enjoy are built on the eviscerated corpses of billions of people who died fighting for or opposing it in one way or another.
Humanity is the most virulent plague the Earth has ever endured.
Gah.
