Edith Boudica Miserel's Letter to Society

It is a naive society that looks on at its past and proclaims its actions as a kind of pure evil that cannot be understood. You understood it as well then as you understand it here now. Society has no mechanism for learning that nearly rivals its constituent's analogue of learning— merely the perception of a progression due to the passing of time, and it is foolhardy for a society to think better of itself because it has not been tested, or worse, does not see its own failure. This naivety seeps into the people, and those who view themselves as having a place as part of society, in any sense that they actively contribute to, in the same motion cement their role in being its dutiful hand.
   The only betterment that has ever meaningfully occurred in a society is the change in its conception of virtue. The will to be 'good' exists in limited supply, and can only do so much even when directed the 'right' way, when placed in opposition to more common opposing wills. Many of these wills, among the ranks of for love, for survival, for happiness, for revenge, among other things, are not inherently bad. Marking each of them as such might mean losing something great, even if it is in some sense true.
   Regardless, this is the plight of mankind coordinated: to suffer the tar pit of their brethren. And if they fancy themselves a well-adjusted part of it, to perhaps pull the tar a bit further so that their children may then trudge on with slightly more freedom.