As someone who reads a lot of history, I felt myself doing the face palm, lol
It sounds like the kind of book that would leave me with an eye twitch an hour after I read it. Now, it's true that people have a way of blurring over the right or wrongs of our government. The Middle East is only a small part of it and the most recent history. If you ever did serious reading into the history of the U.S. you'd dig up a whole lot of things that we would find shocking and high school doesn't teach us. No, you have to pay money for college education to get your hands on real history, which is hardly surprising. At one time the U.S. military were at the beck and call of richest men in the country. The Pullman strike in and of itself was a battle between workers who wanted out of a system as horrible as theirs and the private military and U.S. military which happened all across the country.
Anyone see that Men In Black movie, the first one? That line by Tommy Lee Jones sticks out. "The person is smart, people are dumb, panicky and you know it." Which is rather true actually. For the past 4 years we got stuck with a moron who won using fear tactics. On the one hand, the author's version of war in general and Germans in particular is laughable, but on the other hand...the fact that the Germans continued their work under the Nazi Regime even with enough experience to personally witness the atrocity is not surprising. Humans don't like confronting that sort of thing, we don't like working so hard against the 'word' of whichever society and culture they live in. We don't like going against the tide, and we don't like seeing certain things because it means we'd have to deal with it.
Do you know that all the cool stuff and species fantasy writers create? Much as I don't believe in them, I keep a 1% uncertainty under my belt; because the talent we have for ignoring things we don't want to see is breathtaking and what goes under our noses is incredible enough as it is without bringing in, say, magic battles into it. The banks have made a killing off our misfortune and the politicians glad handing them are going merrily along, yet do you see people trying to initiate a 1 million person march on Washington D.C? The line shouldn't be, 'you can't handle the truth', the line should be, 'you don't want the truth.'
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Date: 2009-08-05 11:25 pm (UTC)It sounds like the kind of book that would leave me with an eye twitch an hour after I read it. Now, it's true that people have a way of blurring over the right or wrongs of our government. The Middle East is only a small part of it and the most recent history. If you ever did serious reading into the history of the U.S. you'd dig up a whole lot of things that we would find shocking and high school doesn't teach us. No, you have to pay money for college education to get your hands on real history, which is hardly surprising. At one time the U.S. military were at the beck and call of richest men in the country. The Pullman strike in and of itself was a battle between workers who wanted out of a system as horrible as theirs and the private military and U.S. military which happened all across the country.
Anyone see that Men In Black movie, the first one? That line by Tommy Lee Jones sticks out. "The person is smart, people are dumb, panicky and you know it." Which is rather true actually. For the past 4 years we got stuck with a moron who won using fear tactics. On the one hand, the author's version of war in general and Germans in particular is laughable, but on the other hand...the fact that the Germans continued their work under the Nazi Regime even with enough experience to personally witness the atrocity is not surprising. Humans don't like confronting that sort of thing, we don't like working so hard against the 'word' of whichever society and culture they live in. We don't like going against the tide, and we don't like seeing certain things because it means we'd have to deal with it.
Do you know that all the cool stuff and species fantasy writers create? Much as I don't believe in them, I keep a 1% uncertainty under my belt; because the talent we have for ignoring things we don't want to see is breathtaking and what goes under our noses is incredible enough as it is without bringing in, say, magic battles into it. The banks have made a killing off our misfortune and the politicians glad handing them are going merrily along, yet do you see people trying to initiate a 1 million person march on Washington D.C? The line shouldn't be, 'you can't handle the truth', the line should be, 'you don't want the truth.'