Posted on 12/05/2009 10:52:26 AM PST by Mobile Vulgus
It's a new rule of thumb, apparently, that history doesn't matter. Fall of Rome? Who cares? WWII? What's it matter? The Great Depression? Just a blip. It's NOW that we care about, man. All that history stuff? Pffft. If it isn't happening now, it doesn't matter.
This notion that history is for the stuffed shirts of academe and that it doesn't mean anything to modern, common folks always screams out when these woeful "Top Ten" lists start showing up in the media.
Today we have another example of this historically illiterate sort of list at Time Magazine's website. There you'll see history's "Top 10 Mistresses," but if you have even a cursory knowledge of history, you'll also see that there is no sense of history in this list of "history's famous mistresses."
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
This is long on Islam and short on editing.
Take a look, it’s been fixed.
Amazing.
Fortunately, 99% of the time it doesn't matter. Historic mistresses? Who cares?
On the other hand,
Anthropological Global Warming?
Universal Healthcare?
Rational Environmental stewardship?
Totalitarianism?
These are critical issues that determine the overall health of our economy and our society
Ignoring issues like these pretty much guarantees descent into servitude, chaos or worse.
Sadly, a servile public is just what they want.
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