After the customary distributor agreement expired, the movie was withdrawn from theatrical and TV distribution channels by Orwell's estate and has not been obtainable legally for many years.
Posted on 10/28/2016 4:42:07 AM PDT by Kaslin
When sizable portions of a people forget their history, they risk losing contact with their nation’s essence, what its best qualities are, and where it ought to be headed. They may soon cease to inhabit an independent political entity.
There’s evidence that a loss of historical memory is a growing problem in America. Furthermore, political developments suggest there will be even more problems involving the loss of knowledge about essential American history in the future.
One indication that we already face problems with loss of historical memory comes from a YouGov poll, commissioned by the recently established The Victims of Communism Foundation. The foundation publishes an “Annual Report on U.S. Attitudes towards Socialism.” The first such report appeared on Monday, October 16, 2016.
Jamie Gregora wrote about that report in the October 17 issue of The Daily Signal. Most of that report deals the youngest birth cohort in the American electorate, i.e., the Millennials, or those aged 34 and younger.
Perhaps the most surprising example, but not the only one, of Millennials’ lack of historical memory is the finding that 32% of them believe that George W. Bush killed more people than Josef Stalin. (If one believes “Bush = Hitler,” perhaps that’s not too surprising.)
Three more examples of Millennials’ historical ignorance will suffice. According to the report, 42% of Millennials “were unfamiliar with” Mao Zedong, 40% claimed not to know who Che Guevara was, and 33% drew a blank when asked about Vladimir Lenin.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
CORRECTION: History - of any kind - is not taught in public schools. One of the reasons is that the teachers are entirely ignorant of history, having come though the same system themselves.
academic incest ...
After the customary distributor agreement expired, the movie was withdrawn from theatrical and TV distribution channels by Orwell's estate and has not been obtainable legally for many years.
Four plus of them...
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Never, Elsie, thanks for the link!
This where you just want to yank your hair out.
We conservatives have been talking about this for decades.
I have asked my kids,”What do they teach you in school?” They say, “They teach us to pass tests”.
No...
They don’t have history tests either.
See my tagline....pretty much sums it up. For the record, I teach American and European history and culture at a community college. The lack of historical knowledge among undergraduate college students is nothing short of appalling.
And you know they don’t know that the Repubican Party was anti-slavery.
The Mumbai born Dinesh D’Souza knows more about American history than the native born. Which wouldn’t be bad if they didn’t seem so proud of their ignorance.
bump
Yes, I agree with your timeline...maybe even sooner if Hillary gets in the WH.
I have been bemoaning the degradation of our educational system for probably 40 years...and I did my best as a teacher of undergrads and graduate students to teach deductive reasoning, etc. ...it was not appreciated by the touchie/feelie contingent because too many minority students failed all the while they did not notice the American Indians I taught were as excellent academically as the best white students.
You are so right in your “simple” analysis.
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