The unidentifiable beauty of romanticizing facts.
Our history is drowned in dark moments, some we do remember, some we don’t like to remember but the most important is that we should remember the events where humanity took a wrong turn. We should teach the next generations about them, learn them to put dreadful happenings in the right context and hope history doesn’t repeat itself. It seems that over centuries the absolutely inhumane behaviour and excesses of crime against humanity are easily romanticized. Sometimes with commercial reason, pirates were just adventuring people who didn’t harm anybody according to the Disney Studio’s, sometimes with evil propaganda in mind. The controversy about removing statues of Robert E. Lee, Albert Sidney Johnston and other Confederate “heroes” in the southern states of America is almost getting to the same proportions as the violent discussion about the Black Piet in The Netherlands. I remember the American soldiers tearing down a statue of Saddam Hussein, because “the bad guys” should be erased o...