Mallory's Musings & MischiefOne thing that was never emphasized enough in history class is that historical events keep happening as you get older and that it's quite stressful
Alex, the Hearth Fire@malcircuit doesn't help that in a lot of US schools history class ends in the 1950s, so we never learn about the history that's most relevant to us unless we actively seek it out
Marc Trius@WizardOfDocs
I very strongly object to the notion that history is "most relevant" by virtue of being more recent. 1660s American history is just as relevant as 1960s.
I have kids in school in the US and all I can say is that they teach very little history (of any era) and most of what they do teach are lies and distortions. As my mom, educated in the USSR, warned me—don't get A's in history at school, you'll end up believing what they teach
@alter_kaker @malcircuit you're not wrong
but I do believe that preventing us from learning recent history enables us to keep repeating the history that harms us most directly.
say a future president decides we need to invade somebody. We don't study the Vietnam War, or the Iraq War, so we support it out of blind nationalism.
History classes end at a peak of American nationalism and supposed national unity, with the implication that this is how things still are.
@alter_kaker @malcircuit in fact, it wouldn't surprise me at all if the continued existence of COVID is due in part to lack of public knowledge about how the government treated AIDS. That's after the end of history class, and it's not something that would make it into the Texas curriculum anyway. (p sure Texas is still where the textbooks get printed.)