Erasing Our History

If you destroy your national heritage, it is likely your country will not long endure. If you denounce your own patrimony, you will soon be subjects to a foreign enemy or a domestic tyrant. When you destroy your monuments and rename your military bases, you do not make your future better but only tarnish whatever good went along with the bad in any place, as men are fallible and the institutions they create are by definition flawed. A polity composed of angels intent on doing altruism would not need police or borders or prisons or fences, but such a place will always and only be a fantasy.