in timeline, paul walker says, "we've got 650 years of knowledge on these guys. if we put our heads together, there's no reason why we shouldn't be able to get out of here and home in 20 minutes."
after all, what does the past have to teach us, anyway? we are by definition more progressive, more advanced, more inclusive, more intelligent, better equiped to do anything. but it's not just arrogance, you know?
there's a resentment that builds up, too. we inherit problems and feel try to atone for the sins of our fathers, and are so bitter against them for leaving us such a legacy.
what, you could have done better? look around! we do it over and over. every generation inherits a fallen world and, just to make sure, we all take turns killing it all over again. we have no moral high ground to stand on, friends. so, if it's not actual superiority, why this attitude?
in everything that rises must converge by flannery o'connor, a young man in the urban south deeply resents his mother's racism. why does her son respond with such violent contempt? the real reason?
he had wonderful memories of the old farm house he'd spent a childhood weekends in. for generation upon generation it had served as the home of plantation and slave owners. that was his family legacy . . . until the world grew up and they eventually gave up the property.
he lost something he loved, simply because it had been gained and maintained through dispicable means. the horror of southern treatment of blacks effectively tainted the most beautiful part of his childhood.
he hates his mom because he desperately wants the gift . . . but can't stomach accepting it because of how it was bought.
"he never spoke of it without contempt or thought of it without longing."
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