99b jbml thln certainly the "lessons of history"


MOST
APPLICABLE
TO THE FUTURE
ARE THOSE THAT ADDRESS
THE PROBLEM OF HOW ACTIONS THAT ARE RECOGNIZED
AS ATROCITIES FROM BELOW (or from outside) APPEAR TO THE PERPETRATORS
TO BE A PERFECTLY REASONABLE RESPONSE
TO EXISTENTIAL CONDITIONS.

Lewis Feuer, in Einstein and the Generations of Science, attributes to Einstein the following analogy:
The heliocentric description of planets orbiting a stationary sun, as observed in the sun's reference frame, is no truer than the Ptolemaic description of the sun and planets orbiting a stationary earth, as observed in the earth's reference frame, but has the advantage of providing a considerable simpler model & clearer path to understanding.

Similarly, Einstein argued, historical events as seen by an appressed class are no truer than the perceptions of the oppressor,
but the perspective of the oppressed provides a simpler & more transparent account. In the present reality, the perspective
of those who may suffer the peculiarly consequences of reducing greenhouse gases can be similarly correlated
with the perspective of a future generation of Floridians who, like today's besieged polar bears,
will be confined to a diminishing land mass.
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