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Discussion of Lies My Teacher Told Me
What do you think of the book? Would you recommend it?
A few years ago, I posted a brief review of the book.
I love it. I think it does a great job at showing how political correctness, the avoidance of controversy by history textbook sellers and biases cause history books in US public schools to create a racist, classist, boring account of history as dry facts and unrealistically heroified characters.
How could we expect a Native American to perform as well in a history class that works so hard to downplay the genocide against his ancestors and celebrates the violent savage Christopher Columbus?
Martin Luther King becomes an angelic character rather than someone who would have committed adultery. Thomas Jefferson and George Washington become simple, perfect, fictional heroes, not controversially realistic slave-owning, sexist elitists who like any real person can be debated, criticized for some things and celebrated for others. History becomes a boring, pro-American, pro-white, pro-wealthy fairy tale.
What do you think?
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Lies My Teacher Told Me
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Inhumanity based on historical inferences is subjective, and usury is an art which was honed and perfected throughout the ages, until we see it today in its current manifestation to which ordinary men still succumb in the same way as over 500 years ago.
As far as students go one cannot get water from a stone, and it is better to teach children to be men and woman of good character, at least IMV, since the desires of each individual varies by levels and degrees. So students get a taste of everything and those who latch onto a particular will know what is true from what is not as it suits them, and benefits them. Columbus was no different than any other man of his day which is something we should recognize today. How else do we understand the difference?
While I find the story of Columbus intriguing I knew the truth of it since before high school having gotten into the history of the American Indian from spending time in a library, a past time long forgotten thanks to the internet and the dumbing down of America, which doesn't matter if one doesn't find a counter balance to the equal insidious of any side consisting of more than two, who should at the very least be husband and wife in order to be productive. To this end I direct you to, 48 Liberal Lies about American History (that you probably learned in school), Larry Schweikart. And the circle never closes. So beware, and never trust anyone over 40 as the old sixties mantra proclaimed.
Why would anyone of any intelligence take anyones word for anything, particularly if it is meant to evoke a reaction(ary). If something is truly important don't wait for someone with a political agenda to come along and tell you what you should believe!!
I shouldn't have to worry about politics in high school to the extent that it becomes all consuming, but recognize that the teacher may well have a political agenda to serve.
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You won't learn the truth in grade school or find an exciting education. As Juice said, you have to go to the library for that.
"The mind is a wonderful servant but a terrible master."
I believe spiritual freedom (a.k.a. self-discipline) manifests as bravery, confidence, grace, honesty, love, and inner peace.
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There are far greater myths perpetuated through the advent of thought control, which in its essence only serve to encourage no thoughts at all, at least on an individual basis, and when one gets enough individuals willing to let others think for them then it really doesn't matter what myth is perpetuated unless we understand the underlying principles to advancing a particular ideology and how that is best served in a society where governance is an accepted reality except in terms of the levels and degrees of governance which advance and perpetuate whichever level and degree of governance can perpetuate whichever myths serves those interests.
We live in an age of political myth making encroaching on Orwellian proportions without accepting that our very freedoms are at stake. While it may seem entertaining to expose letters and words as fallible what difference is it when we are told what to think by infallible terms.
Saying that if we do not head history we are doomed to repeat it is hogwash when we still don't understand that by each second and minute new history is created as we just sit back and wait for history to catch up to old ideas.
And, we have not, as yet defined freedom, and if we think that we have by believing that there will always be someone to tell us that 1+1=2, when we should be free to realize that we are able to figure that out for ourselves, since the way things are going there will soon be someone to tell us 1+1=3, and we wont even care that there is a difference.
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