In a country where more people care about how the last episode of "Dancing with the Stars" or "America's Next Superstar" went, but who don't watch network news programs ("The Mainstream Media is Liberal-Biased") or read newspapers - and that last is so bad, many major metropolitan newspapers are shutting their doors - and EVERTHING presented visually is done at the frantic pace calculated to match the attention span of people raised on MTV music videos - well, you shouldn't be surprised.
The way that we teach history is a crime; it wasn't all that great when I was a kid, in the '60's (I graduated from High School in the Bay Area in 1974). If it isn't happening NOW, people are just not interested in it; there is a stunning lack of any intellectual curiosity in the populace today. It was perhaps one of the most glaring faults in our last president, that he just wasn't curious about things...Thankfully he had Staff for that, but too much of that staff had a bias, and were not the least bit bashful about inserting it.
...Just don't ask anyone to find Havana (or Habana) on a map...
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Date: 2010-06-10 04:11 am (UTC)The way that we teach history is a crime; it wasn't all that great when I was a kid, in the '60's (I graduated from High School in the Bay Area in 1974). If it isn't happening NOW, people are just not interested in it; there is a stunning lack of any intellectual curiosity in the populace today. It was perhaps one of the most glaring faults in our last president, that he just wasn't curious about things...Thankfully he had Staff for that, but too much of that staff had a bias, and were not the least bit bashful about inserting it.
...Just don't ask anyone to find Havana (or Habana) on a map...