You have some values stated for these lessons, but I have a hard time imagining a teacher finding ways to bridge the gap with a student or the class & make seen these somewhat adult perspectives.
This last is way off in the weeds, but formenting insurrection is often a noble & virtuous thing, change often is direly necessary or more worsely overdue. There is a huge amount of fumbling & failing that often prevents good execution, that ruins follow through, & we see in history so many pendulums of society swinging & counter-swinging wildly around one another: this is purely my personal opinion, but I for one don't de-rate the attempts just because it keeps being really really hard (& often woefully mis-done!!). I think the effort to try is gloriously humanistic, challenges be damned. No, hungry for the challenge, the chance to improve. An agency of last & too often necessary resort.
What I would judge might-be insurrectionists on though is their cause. It's easy for groups to be riled up, to let one's group escalate itself rapidly towards inssurectionist climax, to mantle oneselves with cause. Whether you search for some objectively worthy (legible) truth or cause is important. Having a strong epistemic basis is important.
I liked almost nothing about what has recently happened & I think we probably agree a lot about how history isn't/might-not-be useless, & that modern times have shown some real grade-A fuck ups vis-a-vie that all. But still, it feels important to me to not condemn insurrection so widely. As a communist, it certainly seems like insurrection remains necessary. Outcomes haven't been good but the revolutionary spirit dwells in all our hearts, amid the beautiful, high-agency/highest-agency better-possible selves we might have had in us.
This last is way off in the weeds, but formenting insurrection is often a noble & virtuous thing, change often is direly necessary or more worsely overdue. There is a huge amount of fumbling & failing that often prevents good execution, that ruins follow through, & we see in history so many pendulums of society swinging & counter-swinging wildly around one another: this is purely my personal opinion, but I for one don't de-rate the attempts just because it keeps being really really hard (& often woefully mis-done!!). I think the effort to try is gloriously humanistic, challenges be damned. No, hungry for the challenge, the chance to improve. An agency of last & too often necessary resort.
What I would judge might-be insurrectionists on though is their cause. It's easy for groups to be riled up, to let one's group escalate itself rapidly towards inssurectionist climax, to mantle oneselves with cause. Whether you search for some objectively worthy (legible) truth or cause is important. Having a strong epistemic basis is important.
I liked almost nothing about what has recently happened & I think we probably agree a lot about how history isn't/might-not-be useless, & that modern times have shown some real grade-A fuck ups vis-a-vie that all. But still, it feels important to me to not condemn insurrection so widely. As a communist, it certainly seems like insurrection remains necessary. Outcomes haven't been good but the revolutionary spirit dwells in all our hearts, amid the beautiful, high-agency/highest-agency better-possible selves we might have had in us.