Let's place a date on this Livejournal. Second half of my Junior Year of high school. I was dating a senior, had become comfortable around alcohol, stopped playing baseball, and started doing theatre. This is a perfect storm of snobby D-Bag. I'm pretty surprised I didn't smoke imported cigarettes and wear a beret. Either way, this would be the reasoning behind this post about history. That being said, I still think about this all the time. We think its crazy that our parents could live without computers and cell phones. Our kids will think it's crazy that we could survive without teleporters and sex robots.
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APUS - AP US History Class taught by Mr. Feeley (yes that is his real name)
sic - I'm an idiot
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An odd thing i thought about today in APUS History, do we now know more about politics and events between the years of 1650 and 1850 than anyone in those eras did? Even recent politics. How many of you know what state Nixon was born in. What political experience did Clinton have before he ran for the presidency? When did Kennedy win the Pulitzer Prize? In 50-100 years, kids in US History are going to be studying our current events as history. They'll know Dubya as a man who led us to war in the early 2000's while we will know him as a babbling idiot who kind of looks like a monkey and has a name synonimous [sic] with "miserable failure" (that thing doesn't work on google anymore, but whatcha gunna do). I guess what i'm saying is, we are going to be judged by presentist historiography (judging past events by present standards) and that's kind of a wierd feeling... WE are going to be the people that yell at our grandchildren for being ignorant becuase "they weren't there".
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