re: #291 Pie-onist Overlord

Try to imagine being that guy’s great-grandson. You’re sitting with the love of your life, looking through old photos and other relics of the past with which you have almost no connection. You come across the few stupid articles he wrote, way back when, that your grandparents saw fit to preserve.

You read a few passages aloud to the person sitting with you. The offensive stupidity of it is breathtaking, but yet somehow comical. It’s very much the product of its time, but still conveys the basic and lamentable ugliness of the person who wrote it. If the writer were alive today, you’d feel compelled to help him find his way back to the care center from which he has obviously wandered off.

You sigh. This person is your ancestor, and while you bear no responsibility for his assholism, you understand genetics and heredity well enough to know that some tiny portion of that fool is a part of you.