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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 prior to now based mostly on present norms.
His argument is laced with some fairly hysterical jokes, like individuals who assume they’re higher than George Washington as a result of they’ve a homosexual buddy and GW did not. As he stated, if GW have been alive right this moment, he’d in all probability have homosexual pals and if the folks right this moment have been alive again then they would not.
Now talking of Washington — whose legacy is tarnished by the actual fact he was a slave proprietor — Maher tries to make the case that — regardless of the actual fact slavery is horrendously mistaken — 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 usually 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 — possibly 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?