Cursed Knowledge #3: The Molassacre

July 26, 2021 | Harper Hunt | 4 Comments |

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The Boston Molassacre was one of the great tragedies of the early 20th century. So why isn’t it treated like one?

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  1. Possibly not enough of the victims were from a land of golden theatres.

    I speak from the pejorative nature that is amongst the rushed, unthinking mob; coarse people’s death is less a tragedy and more a happenstance.

  2. The only story that matters is the one you are living. Living life for the grander stage is a fool’s errand…

    I met a traveller from an antique land
    Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
    Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
    Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
    And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
    Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
    Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
    The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
    And on the pedestal these words appear:
    “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
    Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’
    Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
    Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
    The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

    — Percy Shelley’s "Ozymandias"

  3. I shared this today in real life as a “red pill” example of how perceptions and narrative are vastly different to fact patterns to a normie colleague. Thank you for the cursed knowledge!

  4. My son is an avid reader of the “I Survived” book series. One of his favorites is the “I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919”. Otherwise I would never have known of it.

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