Bill Maher begs to vary with the maxim, “There’s no time like the present,” as a result of he says the previous is being unfairly dragged.
Maher made a case towards the idea of “presentism” — making ethical/moral judgments concerning the conduct of individuals previously based mostly on present norms.
His argument is laced with some fairly hysterical jokes, like individuals who suppose they’re higher than George Washington as a result of they’ve a homosexual pal and GW did not. As he stated, if GW have been alive immediately, he’d in all probability have homosexual pals and if the folks immediately have been alive again then they would not.
Now talking of Washington — whose legacy is tarnished by the very fact he was a slave proprietor — Maher tries to make the case that — regardless of the very fact slavery is horrendously flawed — it has been the norm all through historical past, pointing to the Egyptians, the Romans, the Greeks, the British … after which he lands an hysterical joke, which you gotta watch.
As he put it half jokingly, human beings are typically horrible folks.
Short story — he thinks judging folks from the previous utilizing present requirements is silly, and we should not begin altering, dismissing or ignoring historical past to evolve to current values.
It’s fascinating … it positive appears that in 50 years — perhaps much less — folks will look again with horror that people used to eat animals and fish. So, what does that make most of us now?
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