It is a fact that much of academia and the mainstream media has been affected by very powerful special interests for a very long time that promote gatekeeping, as economist and Professor Thomas Di Lorenzo writes about in his book Lincoln Unmasked. He devotes a couple of chapters on it that is well referenced and very interesting as he goes through what historians tried to conceal versus the material facts.
If you haven’t read this book, you are missing some really interesting facts and observations.
We like to think as a society we’re better than everyone else and thus in situations like the civil war, we the Union was 100% correct and righteous in their ambitions and results. Obviously there is little truth in war other than some people win, usually the more wealthy and some people lose, usually everyone else, especially young males.
It is a fact that much of academia and the mainstream media has been affected by very powerful special interests for a very long time that promote gatekeeping, as economist and Professor Thomas Di Lorenzo writes about in his book Lincoln Unmasked. He devotes a couple of chapters on it that is well referenced and very interesting as he goes through what historians tried to conceal versus the material facts.
If you haven’t read this book, you are missing some really interesting facts and observations.
We like to think as a society we’re better than everyone else and thus in situations like the civil war, we the Union was 100% correct and righteous in their ambitions and results. Obviously there is little truth in war other than some people win, usually the more wealthy and some people lose, usually everyone else, especially young males.
Thus, It’s not a joke.