We tell ourselves that was the Past and it was normal then. We tell ourselves they didn’t know. We use the word “mores.” In other words, our reckoning with the past is dependent on two central ideas: 1. These people were simply products of their time. 2. We’re better now. Sitting in my cozy house, a house wrapped in the endless shimmering ribbon of social media, I feel I’m at the apex of history. I know things no one knew before. Or if I don’t know something, then I can find it out quickly, easily, with no trouble at all. This is part of why I kept trying to solve the monster problem by
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