The "culture" of cancellation

There are increasingly strong pushes towards a revision of our history. The devotees of cancellation explain to us that a good many of our monuments, street names, buildings and other public works are named after, and glorify, misogynists, fascists, warmongers, racists and so on.

First of all, we should consider that everyone is a child of their own historical period. If a devotee of the "culture" of cancellation had been born in another age and been a person of means, they would have owned slaves, because it would have been normal to have them. If they had been a courageous man, they would seek glory in feats of battle (today it is enough for him to puff up his c and show off his courage by playing on a PlayStation). I could go on, but these are all obvious things.

If we want to go a step further, I wonder whether we can really be sure that our "civilisation", cleansed of all these "nasty" tendencies, is truly better than the one in which they existed. Are we better human beings? More aware? Do we produce more beauty? Are we more just?

What is certain is that we live in an age devoted to commodification and utterly out of mental balance, where what is beautiful has become relative and the result of debates among specialists, and not simply Beautiful because that is how it is perceived. The result is that "art" does not manifest beauty, philosophy offers weak thoughts and politics produces bureaucrats.

Perhaps, instead of cancelling the works named after them, we should take into consideration the greatness of some of the men of the past?

m.m.