I’ve been playing the fun game of thinking through how you’d describe current events in that textbook passive voice the way you’d describe like Roman history and it’s really floored me with how insane the modern moment is. The US is already in an a terminal state of collapse. Sure that doesn’t mean much to us in day to day life but when you’re a high school student learning about the last days of the American empire you’ll learn about 2008 or maybe the 80s and 90s as the last hurrah and not bother with the fine detail history of which states kept their vital infrastructure running the longest. And either way you’re just going to memorize a three word answer as to why it all came down rather than grasping all the insanity. School kids will learn the word financialization and move on, shit like QAnon will just be a fun fact blurb in the textbook margins. I mean really how much do you understand about how the Holy Roman Empire formed out of the corpse of Rome? I know I don’t know shit and I imagine that’s how people will feel reading about this point in history. Just a bunch of confusing mess before the next big thing really takes off