It’s Curtains
October 4th, 2007
More kowtowing to the politically correct movement at the Legislature. George Southwell’s controversial murals are now shrouded as some find them offensive. Others would remove them in their entirety — at taxpayers’ expense, of course.
George Bernard Shaw said that all we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history. I would add a coda to that: and therefore we should stop trying to rewrite it. Our past is our past, warts and all. Let’s move on.
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1. Dieter Gerhard | January 2nd, 2008 at 8:25 pm
I completely agree with you on this Bob. Each time we try to hide and/or rewrite our history we actaully loose yet another piece of it. We can only hope that some future government will see fit to uncloak these wonderful paintings.
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