Thread by @ElonBachman

1\ A fair amount of Woke liturgy is correct, but for based reasons that the Woke don't perceive

E.g. the notion that we should stop teaching Western history is correct, but only because you can't appreciate the miracle of the West by studying it directly

Let me explain...

https://twitter.com/ElonBachman/status/1392431665197297664

2\ For most kids, "history" is a couple of weirdos nailing things to Church doors, followed by more weirdos in silly hats and buckled shoes who enslaved noble savages to grow some crop that nobody alive has ever seen

It all has the feel of a bad oil painting

3\ On the other hand, imagine approaching the West from the other direction, from pre-history and from non-Western modernity

Imagine really internalizing that putrid meat was a staple food in most places until recently:

4\ Or that slavery was a human universal, and often more barbaric than anything you've ever imagined:

5\ Or that before the industrial revolution, something as simple as a shirt was the fruit of *months* of toil:

https://twitter.com/ElonBachman/status/1304798848913727492?s=20

6\ Or that we find evidence of child sacrifice in every corner of the globe:

7\ So the Woke are right. Kids should spend their school years learning the default horrors of the human condition

After which, a burning question arises:

How did a bunch of guys in wigs and wooden shoes step out of the encroaching darkness of 100,000 years, into modernity?