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Disgraceful! Those who ignore history are destined to repeat it.It's sad that the news, local and national hasn't said a thing on "this day that will live in infamy"
or until 2022 .
This country has completely lost It's soul, spine, compasion and class!
I didn't see anything on tic tok about it
My 10 year old reminded me about 15 times. So we got that going for us.It's sad that the news, local and national hasn't said a thing on "this day that will live in infamy"
or until 2022 .
This country has completely lost It's soul, spine, compasion and class!
I don’t think that’s the issue. Pearl Harbor was 81 years ago, that’s, what, four generations? I think there’s more attention on the attacks on 9/11, mass shootings, and more recent issues that have personal impact on present day generations. There has also been a lot of historical racism appended to Pearl Harbor attack, too. I grew up in that environment and was almost disowned by my father when I traveled to Japan from Vietnam on R&R in 1970. My father’s was severely wounded fighting the Japanese in Burma in WWII And hated anyone who was Asian except for the 442 unit fighting in Europe.It's sad that the news, local and national hasn't said a thing on "this day that will live in infamy"
or until 2022 .
This country has completely lost It's soul, spine, compasion and class!
Lessening yes, but still an extremely significant milepost of U.S. history. The gist of Fontinalis' post above being that so many college students could be so ignorant of basic history. Cultural literacy - the list of basic things in history and literature and other cultural attributes that every American should know - is disappearing in the US.No, Pearl Harbor was stunning and terrifying but it’s impact is lessening over time.
Lessening yes, but still an extremely significant milepost of U.S. history. The gist of Fontinalis' post above being that so many college students could be so ignorant of basic history. Cultural literacy - the list of basic things in history and literature and other cultural attributes that every American should know - is disappearing in the US.
" Personally I think we should be Jim Crow with all political candidates. I'll bet many would be shocked at the lack of knowledge on both sides of the aisle..."Most people under 35 don't have any concept of history outside of the last decade. Even at that their interpretation of the events is normally a narrative with an agenda they have swallowed hook line and sinker with little to no critical analysis on their own. And if we're being fair you need greater context to have analysis and interpretation which they do not.
Why is this important or relevant? It's relevant because I see lots of people wanting to try failed ideas of the past with no knowledge of their trial or failure and why. I see people coming up with "original ideas" that are old. Are we becoming stupid? Yes, we are glued to phones and tragically non critical in the information we receive. It's gone as far as college campuses being not a bastion of free thought and speech but an echo chamber where all dissonant ideas are vilified or shouted down not based on merit but on lack of conformity.
A true concept of history beyond location and date with context is mankind's only armour against repeating the mistakes of the past. It's not just young people. It's people in power we elect. Personally I think we should be Jim Crow with all political candidates. I'll bet many would be shocked at the lack of knowledge on both sides of the aisle as to the state of the past and how it relates to the world today. If you're stupid you better be tough. If your leaders are stupid it's going to be tough on you the citizen. Demanding competency is the kind of discrimination we should be happy to entertain. Stupidity and ignorance should be things we stamp out, not champion. We are in the final chapters of an Orwell/Huxley world and those too stupid to see it will once again march the rest of us gleefully into the void of idiocy crying out proudly, "we're all in this together."
" Personally I think we should be Jim Crow with all political candidates. I'll bet many would be shocked at the lack of knowledge on both sides of the aisle..."
Could you explain this a bit more? Having problems putting it into context