I'M IN FAVOR OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE "READING HISTORY"...AND KNOWING ABOUT THEIR PAST... TOO MANY AMERICANS ARE CLUELESS ABOUT AMERICAN HISTORY...
SO TO THE EXTENT THAT BECK IS RUNNING A "HISTORY BOOK CLUB" ALA OPRAH...FINE...I SUPPORT IT.
WHERE BECK GOES BADLY WRONG IS TO IMPLY THAT AMERICANS ARE HAVING SOME SECRET AGENDA IMPOSED ON THEM...
OR, THAT THE "REAL STUFF" IS BEING DELIBERATELY HIDDEN BY SOME GROUP OF PROGRESSIVE MASTERMINDS BENT ON SOCIALISM AND ENSLAVEMENT...
THAT IS WHERE BECK CROSSES THE LINE INTO BULLSHIT...OR WORSE PURE POLITICAL MANIPULATION!
ALL HISTORY IS OPINION...
AND HISTORY IS MOSTLY WRITTEN BY "THE WINNERS"... THOSE WHO LOST IN HISTORIC CONTESTS... OFTEN DON'T HAVE "THEIR SIDE" OF EVENTS TOLD IN A FAVORABLE LIGHT...
THIS IS TRUE... ITS HARD TO FIND A "PRO-SOUTHERN" HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR.
BUT THE NOTION THAT ANY OF THIS IS BEING HIDDEN FROM THE PUBLIC IS NONSENSE...
HISTORY IS FULL OF STRANGE ANOMALIES...WHICH ARE GLOSSED OVER BY LATER GENERATIONS...
WHAT IT LINCOLN REALLY THINK ABOUT BLACKS...? WHY DID WASHINGTON AND JEFFERSON OWN SLAVES...? WAS THE CIVIL WAR REALLY ABOUT SLAVERY...OR ABOUT LABOR ISSUES...? HOW DID THE RISE OF UNIONS HELP FORM THE MIDDLE CLASS...?
FINE...DEBATE IT ALL...
BUT DO NOT ACCUSE THE PROGRESSIVES OF "HIDING" SOME SECRET HISTORY...THAT DOES NOT EXIST...
FURTHERMORE...THERE IS NOTHING "DEVINE" ABOUT THE US CONSTITUTION...ITS JUST A STANDARD "CORPORATE CHARTER"...VERY LIKE A CORPORATE CHARTER TODAY...IF YOU EVER BOTHER TO READ ONE...
SO LET'S STOP THE "WEEPY" WINGNUT BULLSHIT ABOUT THE CONSTITUTION!
THE NOTION OF SETTING UP "GOVERNANCE" BASED ON A "CORPORATE CHARTER" GOES BACK TO HOW THE BRITISH "COLONIZED THE WORLD"...
THEY FARMED IT OUT TO "COMPANIES"...!!
PRIVATE SPECULATORS! ...IT WAS AN INVESTMENT!
IN THE EARLY 1600'S THE BRITISH HAD TWO BIG "COLONIAL VENTURES"
ONE WAS IN NORTH AMERICA...THE OTHER IN INDIA...
THE LOCALS REBELLED IN NORTH AMERICA...TO FORM THEIR OWN "COMPANY" ....WE CALL THAT NEW COMPANY... THE UNITED STATES...AND THAT "NEW CHARTER" "THE CONSTITUTION"...
THE LOCALS IN INDIA...UNDER THE EAST INDIA COMPANY...ACCEPTED THE ENGLISH... UNTIL THE 1850'S WHEN THEY REBELLED...AFTER WHAT WAS CALLED THE "BLACK HOLE OF CALCUTTA" MASSACRE...
THE BRITISH PUT DOWN THAT REBELLION...AND ESTABLISHED THE "RAJ"...ABOLISHING THE EAST INDIA COMPANY...AND MAKING INDIA THE CROWN JEWEL OF THE BRITSH EMPIRE...
BOTH AMERICAN AND INDIAN COLONIZATION STARTED AT THE SAME TIME...BUT THE RESULTS WERE DIFFERENT...ULTIMATELY IN 1947 INDIA AND PAKISTAN BECAME INDEPENDENT STATES...
SO HISTORY IS OUT THERE...AND ITS NOT WHAT MANY PEOPLE THINK...
BUT IT IS NOT DEVINE...IT IS NOT SACRED...IT IS NOT HIDDEN...ITS JUST A RECORD OF "THE SHIT THAT HAPPEN"...
NOTHING MORE...
AND THAT IS NO BUNK...!
