Don't know much about ...

History, we can't escape it but I suppose we can sure
cover it up, subvert it, make it up, fabricate it,
propagandize it, refute it, or just simply investigate
it.

Most of us are too lazy to dig into history, for we
think of history as that stupid assignment Mrs.
Blechly gave us in high school that needed to be
annotated on 3x5 note cards and five pages long! It
reminds us of boring hours spent in a quiet library
and thumbing through index cards:

Peloplenesion war, The
Rise and fall of Sparta, The
Why Athens lost the Peloplenesion war - see also The
rise and fall of Sparta
Athens, City state - see also the rise and fall of
Sparta
Sparta, the rise and fall of - see also the rise and
fall of Sparta, The

We all do not need advanced degrees in history and not
all of us will have the patience to wade through the
mounds of research accumulated throughout the
centuries by other historians. But, what we seem to be
feeding our children and ourselves is a diet of "done'
know much about history ... and don't really care to
know anything." We are content with having someone
else tell us the story and as long as it makes a
little sense we go on our merry way regardless of the
factualness of the statements made.

We eat the steady diet of PC history where white man
is bad, Indian, Black, Chinese, Hispanic are good and
this information is presented in slick History Channel
documentaries and programming that cleverly portray a
stilted view of history that even Mrs. Blechly's text
books would blush at!

Is it that these episodes in history have been short
changed or is it that people with little understanding
of history are deciding what should and shouldn't be
presented to the public?

Areas of history that have been given short shrift
should be explored and explained and portrayed in a
way that can be easily grasped as it pertains to our
modern world. But to subvert the whole message for one
that satisfies the conscience is deceitful and
harmful. It is more than just the bland History
Channel programming, it is the glossing over or
outright covering over of our history that are
inexplicable or unexplainable when faced with our
modern ideas of equality, rights, and post World War
sensibilities.

Instead of explaining the origins of the Civil War in
a broad sense, we teach our children that the Civil
War was fought to free the slaves because it feeds our
sensibilities post civil rights movement.

Our sensibilities breed poor history, our poor history
breeds in-sensibility in our generations and a poor
view of ourselves as time moves onward.