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Friedrich Nietzsche vs Robert E. Lee
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This episode plunges into contested territory. In many countries, people are calling for the removal of monuments to slavery and genocide while others decry these demands as an assault upon their "culture." It occurs to me that Nietzsche, in his early work _On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life_, has something worthwhile to say on the subject, so that is the exploration I've undertaken this week. What is our relationship to history? How does it shape us, and how do we shape it and thus ourselves? Who controls the narrative, and what happens when narratives butt heads? And who among the disputants has the fortitude to bear up under history's ever increasing weight?
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