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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2012-03-15 07:55 pm

[ SECRET POST #1899 ]


⌈ Secret Post #1899 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[The Tempest]


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[SGA]


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[Life After People]


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[Uncharted]


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[Super]


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[Japanese voice actors]


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[Kamen Rider Den-O, Doctor Who ]


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[Silent Hill 4: The Room]


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[Tripod]


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[True Blood]


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[Cabin Pressure]


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[How I Met Your Mother]


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[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]


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[Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy]


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[Gossip Girl]


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[Sense and Sensibility]


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[FFX]


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[The Princess and the Goblin]


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[Code Geass]


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[Star Trek (2009)]


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[Tree of Life]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 042 secrets from Secret Submission Post #271.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

(Anonymous) 2012-03-16 04:48 am (UTC)(link)
Thomas Hobbes "life is nasty, brutish and short" quote is one of the favorite saying touted by history and international relations professors. Because history and the majority of modern intrastate/interstate issues are not pretty.

I'd actually be interested in hearing why you think otherwise?

[identity profile] stella-down.livejournal.com 2012-03-16 05:04 am (UTC)(link)
I don't think otherwise, but you're doing fierceawakening a pretty big favor there by equating that with Hobbes.

[identity profile] fierceawakening.livejournal.com 2012-03-16 10:52 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know that I'd go as far as Hobbes. But I mean exactly what you say: that history is not pretty. We make it sound so for kids, usually, and -- eh. Sometimes I think that's fine, as they may not be developmentally ready to handle, to use my example below, "Lincoln did some awesome things but was kind of a dick." But sometimes I think that does a disservice, because it teaches people to believe a rosy picture when history is actually messy and fraught with people doing the wrong things for the wrong reasons and even having creepy as fuck reasons when they do the right things.

Doesn't make history bad to study or unrelentingly creepy or anything. But no, it's Not Pretty, and someone already inclined to misanthropy doesn't seem to me to be likely to look at it and go "Whoa. I was wrong. YAY HUMANITY!!!"