The Right Side of History

September 11

It would be conveniently incorrect to say that history judges everyone. It’s closer to reality to say that history promptly forgets most of us, leaving every hometown hero and gifted a child in the dust of modern events.

A select few find themselves under scrutiny: the heads of enron, the president-elect, the arsonists and inventors who happen to (usually by accident) find themselves in that briefest of spotlights. We pass judgment, usually no more complex or robust then finding the results they produced good or bad. 

But that’s all in the past, isn’t it? Ready to be reviewed, but also just as easily ignored—the strange, cold, uneasy way history tells its limited, endless stories. 

The rest of us are stuck here—on the other side of history, the present, informed and contorted by past events, choosing the past paths we can regardless of who remembers them. 

What will we do with our brief decades on the right side of history?

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