Want to Dumb Yourself Down? A New History Book Might Help You Do That.

[Sunstone]

A Patriot's History of the Modern World.

I bet a whole lot of people are going to get suckered by that "history". But my opinion aside, what do you think of the tendency of many people today to live in their own alternative universe where most of what they read or view agrees with them?

For instance, Judge Scalia of the Supreme Court says he doesn't read anything, such as the New York Times, that upsets his conservative ideas and notions.

And a number of liberals, on the other side of the isle, live in little bubbles where vaccines cause autism, etc.

So what do you make of all that?

 

[LuisDantas]

Never mind dumbing down. Do these people realize how morally questionable those stances are?

 

[lewisnotmiller]

I'm confused. You purported that this thread was about a history book, and then linked to a story about a political manifesto. Your theory seems to be 'if it looks like a duck, it's a duck, even if it says 'Moo, frigging Moo'.

Personally, I don't subscribe to this theory. Just like I wasn't really a shock-rocker when I turned up to a party dressed as Marilyn Manson (MAN I wish I had some photos from that party...I didn't buy a drink all night...lol), neither is this a history book. Well, perhaps it is if you attach the word 'revisionist' at the start.

 

[The Sum of Awe]

Bringing politics into history now?

I see politics as an impurity, both liberal and conservative and in between. It disrupts things, and that history book is a great example of it, needless to say that politics has already targeted something bigger - the media.

It seems likely to me that in the near future politics will impact everything globally, there will be different views on everything. It will split humanity up into two categories: the liberal outlook or the conservative outlook. Both are infections that will make us forget about the world itself, how it is. All things in the future will be simply an opinion on whether you are conservative or liberal.

 

[LuisDantas]

Do you think the conservative / liberal divide will endure, then?

 

[esmith]

I don't know why don't you try a little history where you might learn something. Say

THE COLDEST WINTER BY DAVID HALBERSTAM

 

[Me Myself]

Bringing politics into history now?

You think its new?

Who taught you history, kid? The losers?

 

[Revoltingest]

A Patriot's History of the Modern World.

I bet a whole lot of people are going to get suckered by that "history". But my opinion aside, what do you think of the tendency of many people today to live in their own alternative universe where most of what they read or view agrees with them?

For instance, Judge Scalia of the Supreme Court says he doesn't read anything, such as the New York Times, that upsets his conservative ideas and notions.

And a number of liberals, on the other side of the isle, live in little bubbles where vaccines cause autism, etc.

So what do you make of all that?

2 things:
- Scalia does listen to NPR at times.
- It should be "aisle" instead of "isle".
- If reading the news doesn't regularly pi** one off, then one needs more variety in the bias of one's sources.

OK, I intended 2 things but ended up with 3.

 

[Sunstone]

- Scalia does listen to NPR at times.

Yes, with the emphasis on "at times". According to Scalia, he "sometimes listens to NPR. But not usually."

 

[Revoltingest]

Yes, with the emphasis on "at times". According to Scalia, he "sometimes listens to NPR. But not usually."

I had to give the guy credit for a step in the right....er left direction.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Being that one of the primary psychological drives of human beings is to protect and maintain their sense of self-identity, it makes sense that most people would have a tendency to avoid ideas or opinions which challenge theirs.

 

[Sunstone]

Being that one of the primary psychological drives of human beings is to protect and maintain their sense of self-identity, it makes sense that most people would have a tendency to avoid ideas or opinions which challenge theirs.

La la la la la la...I can't hear you!

 

[Mister_T]

A Patriot's History of the Modern World.

I bet a whole lot of people are going to get suckered by that "history". But my opinion aside, what do you think of the tendency of many people today to live in their own alternative universe where most of what they read or view agrees with them?

For instance, Judge Scalia of the Supreme Court says he doesn't read anything, such as the New York Times, that upsets his conservative ideas and notions.

And a number of liberals, on the other side of the isle, live in little bubbles where vaccines cause autism, etc.

So what do you make of all that?

History doesn't fit your crackpot views? Alter history and slap "Patriot" in the title, implying that anyone who doesn't dumb themselves down to your level is not patriotic. You win.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

La la la la la la...I can't hear you!

Sadly, my observations get this reaction from a lot of people.

 

[The Sum of Awe]

You think its new?

Who taught you history, kid? The losers?

At least from what I've noticed, I never read from a history textbook that flat out said the holocaust is a bad thing, or that the South won, etc.

 

[DallasApple]

I read everything . Left and right . And live in a world of swirling confusion .I have to take a pill not to pass out from the jerking left and right. I stay grounded somehow though a little on the left.

Then again Im bleeding heart liberal tree hugger who would never call a woman a ****. (unless she screwed my husband)