The more I grow and learn, the more confused I become.
I do not know much about Castro but from what I heard the dictator was a bad person. But then I was told by a friend, "Castro was a good leader, honestly. Maybe he killed lots of dudes, sure, but he was an effective leader".
I grew up thinking Lincoln was a national hero. For all I knew he was the best President we ever had. But then I hit high school where a teacher told me I had been fed propoganda my entire life. "Lincoln is no hero kids," he told the class. According to him Lincoln enslaved us all during the civil war when he did not let the South seceded. Lincoln was also not out to free the slaves. He charged into the civil war and the end of slavery just happened...I know Lincoln did not say he was out to free the slaves but did he not write the Emancipation of Proclamation that pushed the emancipation of slaves as a forefront issue in the war?
I was also under the impression that the civil war was over. Then I moved to the South where they still wave the confederate flag and call Northerns (or transplants) "yankees".
Castro is good?
Lincoln is bad?
The civil war is still going on?
I am so confused.
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Yeah, well I guess it's just up to us to sift through the facts for ourselves. Yeah, I've heard both sides of the story(my mother's family is from Tennessee.). They still think that the civil war was never finished in some places down there. There are a lot of questions as to did the south have the right to secede and such. In my opinion(I know this may sound crazy to some...) they did have the right to secede. But, as we see in Kosovo today, there's always a larger nation who doesn't want the smaller state to be independent. Whatever the reasons of a state's want to be free, it is their right if their people demand it. That's what democracy's all about...
I'm not going against Abraham Lincoln. He's one of my favorite presidents and yes he did fight against slavery so in my mind he did right in that area. I just also side with people who say that the south had the right to secede. I don't agree with the reasons behind it, ie. keeping slaves and other issues, but if their people decided that then in my opinion they had the right to be free...
I think I'll write a blog post on this...
-Cheez Out-
You're not crazy I've heard that before. It seems like the South did have the right to secede since that is democracy. There's also the whole "but we're a union" thing. I guess if you don't agree with the mass you have the right to break away. If you're just considering how the system works then yes, the south should have been able to seceded. However, I'm happy how it turned out. Just as "A Night at the Museum" says, "You guys are brothers for God's sake... You gotta stop fighting... North wins... Slavery is bad... Sorry... Don't want to burst your bubble but South you guys get Allmen Brothers"
I'm glad to inspire your new blog post! I think I will write one on this as well.
If knowledge is power then power sure is confusing...
I remember learning how Columbus was NOT the first to discover America and how he was actually a bad man. The more we know, the more we have to question what we already think we know.
exactly.
I'm getting tired of trying to figure this all out.
History was written by the conquerors. So now that we are looking back, we wonder what happened to the conquered? We look back and we find out that people were not the heros we thought they were. Never forget that no matter what they inteded to do, the important thing is what they did do. You get to choose who your heros are, and you always have to remember that people are not perfect, they make their own mistakes, they act on information that may, or may not be wrong, they try for one thing, and end up doing something completely different, but still as amazing, or as hard as the first thing.
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"As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to excercise it, different opinions will be formed..."
James Madison, Federalist Paper # 10
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That is very true.
Everyone has different opinions because we are all, as human beings, very fallible.
Thanks for the comment! It's much appreciated.