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poop
This is how people felt when 18th century fancy lads referenced ancient Greek/Roman history randomly.
"The US is just like the Roman empire." -2000s political debate over US foreign policy online.
Repeat ad-nauseam for years as if that is such a glorious genius take.
Cuz history isn’t really taught as history (e.g., material analyses and ideological critiques), it’s taught in the basic spirit of pop fiction anyway.
Fortunately, at my uni at least, most incoming college-age students actually do see it as cringe or at least super problematic now, compared to the euphoria over it in 2015/2016.
American middle class liberals have never faced anything even remotely as bad as war in their lives that wasn't in the form of media
because americans have very little exposure to the world beyond television and movies. the saddest part is, it's not really their fault - education is just somewhere to send the kids while you're at work, there's no real expectation for them to come away with a more complete understanding of our world.
I remember how a couple of months ago someone here posted scans from a DPRK history textbook and they used historical materialism to analyze everything. Meanwhile in America, they're teaching kids that the Civil War wasn't actually about slavery, and that capitalism is freedom :agony:
i love it when my imagined future is just a dolled up reflection of the present
