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Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com |
One reason powerful people get so upset about "speaking ill of the dead" is that deep down, they know that how they're remembered (or not remembered) is all they'll have after they die, after the money and power is gone.
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@zutart.bsky.social
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Amazed I never found a way to vocalize this, but you absolutely hit the nail on the head. Don't speak ill of the dead is a symptom of seeing one's reflection. I love it.
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Kunle Okesipe
@ogunnian.bsky.social
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But then, deep down evil fascinates people. Give it distance (temporal or spatial) and watch them romanticize it.
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Dr. Holly Walters
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Celebrate his demise in the streets. Loudly. Excitedly. With songs and chants never to be forgotten. With jokes, joy, and banners. Show the rest of them what awaits their legacies.
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Chris Broome
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If at all… how many powerful people from the past are only remembered today because they happened to have their portrait painted by a talented artist?
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max power 尊
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cierto
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Leslie Molson
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Even when one of best friends died at age 20, it appalled me to hear him eulogized as if was a deity or something. As a close friend, I was aware of his complex personality, and I was grieving for all of him, the good and the bad.
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Mike Hibu
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It goes back to the ancient Greek (τὸν τεθνηκóτα μὴ κακολογεῖν) - attributed to Chilon of Sparta.
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Slink the Weasel
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I would want people to remember me at my most assholeness just as much as at my best. Speak bad about me all they want.... as long as they speak truthfully.
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jarocats
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Or as Andy Warhol put it, the worst part of dying is knowing somebody will go through your stuff. There is great comfort in being an atheist, and knowing you won't care about anything in death.
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Yasir Ali Yousafzai
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Mike
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I think one of the most interesting parts of this is watching the powerful become unraveled in the face of their own mortality. That all of the riches in the world does not stop the inevitable.
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That's why they—more than anyone else—don't want to die, are into immortality cultism. They 'know' they must control the narrative.
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Michael Hobbes
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Everyone has exactly the same opinion on this — it's OK to talk shit on the dead if they sucked and not OK if they were cool. If people want to defend Kissinger, they should defend him! It's so tedious to have pundits issuing these 'principled' takes they patently don't believe.
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Jacob
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That’s exactly why I love doing it
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Parker Molloy
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Every hagiographic retelling of the lives of people who've committed acts of evil serves to comfort the evil that still lives with us, reassuring them that they, too, will be remembered fondly in newspapers and in history.
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Damiana Swan
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OSC is otherwise a piece of shit, but I do agree with his opinion that the most respectful way to remember someone is to be utterly honest about how they chose to live their life. Kissinger made a lot of evil choices and harmed a lot of people. That's who he was.
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Trevin Sandlin
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The dead cannot speak. We must speak for them. And there are so many who are dead because of that man. So we must speak loudly.
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David Zaber
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Marley Jay, a Werewolf of Wall Street
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This is related to the reason politicians are always naming shit after each other. Mutual horse trading from across the grave.
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calling all cars
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imagine all the shit talking that'll happen when Rupert Murdoch kicks the bucket. He's definitely up there with Kissinger as a net negative on humanity.
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Adam Poling
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The evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones, so let it be with Caesar... and Kissinger
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Alastair Somerville
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The narrative power of public philanthropy to overwrite decades of horrible behaviour is remarkable tho. The rich and powerful who do not choose that escape route are very odd.
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Mx. Peacekeeper
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I'm betting now his family and friends are looking at all this and looking at keeping his grave on private land and foregoing public funerals. He really should be cremated and his ashes thrown into the sea, like Adolf Eichmann.
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