It's utterly terrifying to me.
History is interesting, it's nuanced and at its core it just portrays people struggling for a better world.
The problem is that to properly understand it one needs to read a lot of books, and be interested with the thoughts on all sides of every conflict and the underlying thought that drove those decisions.
A good history teacher is a rare thing, it takes a lot of passion to understand history whereas giving simple answers and trite explanations is easy, and requires very little work.
What's even more terrifying is that replacing history with critical theory or sex ed requires even less work and we're seeing the fruits of that play out on the streets these days.
History is important.
The funny thing about book burnings is that I got obsessed with them and collected them wildly as a kid.
Essentially speaking I read "Lettres Philosophique" and got so horny for the England compliments that I went on a tear collecting banned books.
Let's just say there was a reason some of those books were burned. (There was also a reason why Wilhelm Reich's research notes endured the only court-mandated burning in American history as well, but that's a story for another day.)
The truth of modern society is that TV and movies have supplanted books for a great number if people and we aren't at the point of books burnings, we're at the point where there's been so many book burnings that people are starting to get sick of it.
We moved from reasonable to unreasonable book burnings quite a while ago and the Harry Potter novels is the point where the waves recede.
The book burnings have run their course. This recent outbreak went far beyond the book burnings of Nazi Germany and we're returning to valuing expressing at a rapid rate.
It's utterly terrifying to me.
History is interesting, it's nuanced and at its core it just portrays people struggling for a better world.
The problem is that to properly understand it one needs to read a lot of books, and be interested with the thoughts on all sides of every conflict and the underlying thought that drove those decisions.
A good history teacher is a rare thing, it takes a lot of passion to understand history whereas giving simple answers and trite explanations is easy, and requires very little work.
What's even more terrifying is that replacing history with critical theory or sex ed requires even less work and we're seeing the fruits of that play out on the streets these days.
History is important.
The funny thing about book burnings is that I got obsessed with them and collected them wildly as a kid.
Essentially speaking I read "Lettres Philosophique" and got so horny for the England compliments that I went on a tear collecting banned books.
Let's just say there was a reason some of those books were burned. (There was also a reason why Wilhelm Reich's research notes endured the only court-mandated burning in American history as well, but that's a story for another day.)
The truth of modern society is that TV and movies have supplanted books for a great number if people and we aren't at the point of books burnings, we're at the point where there's been so many book burnings that people are starting to get sick of it.
We moved from reasonable to unreasonable book burnings quite a while ago and the Harry Potter novels is the point where the waves recede.
The book burnings have run their course. This recent outbreak went far beyond the book burnings of Nazi Germany and we're returning to valuing expressing at a rapid rate.