If you’re not curious about history, you’re doomed to be attached to it.
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3 of the 4 histories I’ve read so far in my pandemic history binge hit that standard. The 4th, Arthur Herman’s Freedom’s Forge, while informative on the subject I was curious about, is not as good. Slides into near-hagiography. https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1246565978021842944?s=21 …https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1246565978021842944 …
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One of the best things about post-Columbian American history is that it is short enough and well-documented enough, you can humanize every bit of it. There is no confounding mist of legend and mythology to penetrate. Which is why the statues debate is so fraught here.
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This might be why the US is the only developed western Christian -heritage nation to be developing-world level literally religious. A source of identity sufficiently cloaked in mist to be immune from humanizing historiography.
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I think the key issue is that this "humanization" does not fit the idealization of "human" that no one actually achieves but people publicly lay claim to in the current cultural moment.
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