There was no moment of mass forgetting.
We didn't lose our way.
We carved it.Stone by stone.
And in the same centuries — by the same species —
we built the other thing too.
The slave ships. Child labour. The camps. Tulsa. The cobalt in your phone. Every one of them legal at the time, profitable, and signed off by someone who went home afterwards and slept.
Abolition. The vote. The Geneva Conventions. The end of smallpox. Every one of them called impossible, unaffordable or premature — and done anyway, by people nobody was listening to.