A Quick Introduction to History
Available only here on Week 001
Time + History Neither Stops Nor Starts.
History tells the story of the Imperial WE.
We – ALL OF US – are the Imperial WE.
WE Write our History,
This History WE Write is How We Remember our Past,
This History WE Write is How We inform our Present,
This History We Write is How We Shape our Future.
The “Imperial WE” lines above are an attempt at brevity to simplify what history means.
Fundamentally, it means somebody, somewhere wrote “something” down; then + over time, other people – historians, presidents, dictators, military leaders, and the occasional random stranger – looked it over, reviewed the content, edited the stories, and thus left their mark on history which to us… spans days, months, years, decades, centuries, and millennia.
Over that time, historians + public opinion typically arrive at uneasy & uncertain agreements & disagreements about the truth of a historical “something”.
Such as: How the American West Was Won.
Also, over time, much of the history about the history of a certain “something” – becomes lost.
There usually comes a time when the history of any given “something” is either irrevocably lost or becomes buried in archives which may or may not ever see the light of day..
Sometimes the history of a “something” is argued, debated and disputed with the ferocity we employ when discussing current events and/or oppo podcasts and/or drill-baby-drill and/or crazy critters & adorable kittens.
History, in its purest form, is very much like very, very, very, very, very slow social media.
Ghosting is common.
Our ‘current history’ (otherwise know as “current events”) is being written by folks and AI in many formats of print & electronic media.
History-History has, historically, been written by historians to preserve our knowledge of the past.
‘Future history’ will someday be written by people or AI, some of whom will be trained historians with access to the same headlines, and the same print & electronic media currently available to you.
At some point or another, the history of any given “something” you either witness and/or know something about either will or won’t be enshrined into what we affectionately call the ‘history books’.
In case you’ve been wondering + rest assured, trump 2.0 is destined for a meaningful place in the “history books”; the only real question, in that regard, is this:
- Will Trump become reviled as a villain or will he have earned facetime on U.S. folding money?
The ‘future folks’ will enjoy the advantage of seeing more than any one individual alive today can witness; however, the ‘future folks’ will always be hampered by vast amounts of relevant information which we colloquially refer to as:
Lost to History
The recorded history already baked into our ‘history books’ is marred by intractable & irresolvable disputes,
The recorded history we’re living in is indisputably marred by intractable & irresolvable disputes,
The recorded history yet to be written into ‘history books’ will be marred by…
You guessed it…
INTRACTABLE & IRRESOLVABLE DISPUTES
It’s important to note that the link above is, not unexpectedly, marred by “intractable & irresolvable” disputes.
To that I will simply offer 3 links and a brief note:
Only the Custer History was included in U.S. textbooks prior to 1980.
The other 2 links are currently & systematically being erased from U.S. History textbooks.
“Read History and Weep!”
Either with tears of joy or tears of fears… or both.
We realize some of you may have never heard of Lt Col George Armstrong Custer or perhaps know nothing more than he has a “Last Stand” tied to his name.
Bottom line: He was – and is – a fascinating character with controversies worthy of many enduring pages – in our American & United States history.
Week 001 recap
Immediately above is a news carousel with headlines + short capsules of content from the week. The headlines will change from week-to-week; however, we expect many of the same headlines will appear on a very regular basis.
Immediately below are some of the links & memes from the week + some which may not have been included in the daily posts.
Below that are some of the included + additional media we hope you’ll enjoy.
As trump 2.0 evolves, we expect to revise content as new & substantive information comes to light; however, at the present time we have no plans to provide a revision history. Our goal is to maintain as complete a record of events, public opinion, and links to relevant culture-history-media resources as is humanly person (per our self-serving definition of “human”).
As we expect you should expect by now; every day & every week of trump 2.0 has much more content than our over-stressed brains can handle – so we left out a bunch-o-stuff… for now.
We hope you “enjoy” the humor and horror of trump 2.0
Please bear in mind this is just some of the stuff from Week 001.
Links o' the week
Memes o' the week
Videos o' the week
Every week we’ll have video content for you to enjoy.
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So… Enjoy already!
"How the West Was Won"
To the left is the MAGA version of Hollywood History;
To the right is the Revisionist History
NOTE 1: The revisionist version is, by Hollywood standards, a remarkably accurate portrayal of the massacre, based almost entirely on the writings of Lt Col George Armstrong Custer.
Per the written accounts of the Washita Massacre, the battlefield was much more gruesome than is presented in the scene from “Little Big Man”
We’re glad you’re down here at the bottom of a long page… with lots of words… the thing is, this is about history and history is long.
For the most part, all history has are words – sometimes too many; sometimes too few; sometimes the words are reduced to little more than the names, dates, places… along with a guesstimate about what the “something” is that happened – which may or may be accompanied by pictures and/or drawings.
Now we have movies… like
“The Revisionaries”
to remind us we never really know…
