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Feb. 28, 2023 - Lionel Nation
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No History ⟺ No Memory ⟺ No Perspective
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I remember when I was a kid, being in school, high school in particular, and I was first introduced to what really could be called history.
History that kind of makes sense.
Not, you know, history in grade school, but really high school was the first time anybody ever really gave me history.
And I'll never forget how at the time I thought to myself, this is the worst, this is the worst subject I've ever heard.
I have no connection to it.
It was always taught invariably by the coach who taught world history.
I don't know why somebody who is a football coach teaches history is beyond me.
We had something in the old days called Problems with American Democracy, P.A.D., which at that time was mandated by law somehow, and I don't know exactly what the purpose of it was, but it bored me even more so, because I had no perspective.
Nothing made any sense to me.
Maybe I was just too young.
Maybe kids shouldn't be taught history.
Maybe when you're talking to somebody who's 15 years old and you're trying to explain the efficacy.
Of, you know, pedagogical vectors that emphasize, you know, Charlemagne.
It's a bit tough.
But now more than ever, it's beyond critical.
I spend my life readdressing and rethinking and recalibrating history.
History which could be as late as two weeks ago or an hour ago.
Because think about it.
What's history?
That's history.
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Listen to me.
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Three important rules of history that are the most critical.
Number one.
Tolstoy's best.
I think about this every single day.
History would be a wonderful thing if only it were true.
God, I love that.
Number two.
This is important.
History is a myth that men agree to believe.
This is Napoleon.
It's kind of a myth.
It's this fable that we all kind of collectively agree upon.
And the third, I don't know if it was Churchill or Bismarck or whoever it was, but history is determined by the winners.
Because that's the thing which I understand.
History is also perspective.
History is perspective.
I was watching a documentary the other day about the Tet Offensive.
Tet Offensive is from whose position?
From our position?
Or from General Jap's position?
Or the Vietnamese?
Whose perspective?
What do you mean?
Ask somebody this question.
Who won World War II?
Ask this question.
If Russia could have defeated Germany without the United States, ask that one and good luck.
Because if you think there's a kind of a tendentious form of hyper-reactivity to issues today regarding just news, you ain't seen nothing yet.
You have no bearing, no understanding whatsoever as to how horrible, Horrible arguments can be if you want to talk about just plain old history.
But listen to me very, very carefully.
Nothing, nothing that we do today is really new.
Let me clarify this.
We never had AI in the past.
We never had AGI in the past.
We never had, you know, chat GPT.
We never had a lot of the social media aspects.
That's true.
But every aspect of history always had something that was new.
Something new-fangled.
Something new and improved.
Something that would change drastically the course or the iteration or the vector or the goal, if you will, of where history was going.
It's very critical.
Very important.
Very, very critical to understand this.
Nothing, nothing has ever changed.
There's always been something.
I will say, That today's American contemporary political system is drastically different from anything that we've seen before.
Then again, what I just said right now could have been said 50 years ago.
Because while everything is new, everything is the same.
And you know what else is the same?
Is the new.
Is the change.
I never understood Vietnam.
Never understood it.
Until I saw the Vietnam Memorial.
I never understood it.
My generation, me, I missed Vietnam by this much.
It was one of the fastest by the grace of God did I miss it.
And I've never been able to understand still And I've listened to lecture upon lecture.
I've read books.
I've heard everything you can imagine.
I can't understand it.
How?
Why did you do this?
It's almost like somebody saying, you know, why did you run into a burning building?
Well, I ran into a burning building because my family was there.
Oh, that's interesting.
That is certainly, you know, a part of bravery.
First is, why did you run into that burning building?
I don't know.
Nobody was there.
Nobody was in there?
Nope.
Were you trying to save anything?
Nope.
You ran into a burning building?
So while it looks courageous, when you listen carefully, you realize, my God, you had no plan.
That's the part of this.
If there's one rule of history I found...
It's that don't expect for somebody to come along and to tell you, this is why we did it, so that you'll say, oh, I see.
It's always misapplication of fact, misdirection of resources, an overestimation, underestimation of the potential threat of the enemy, a misapplication of available.
You know, resources.
And also, like it was a Colin, Paul said, don't, not Colin, by the way.
He said, you know, if you break it, you own it.
It's the pottery barn rule.
This idea of going in and adventurism.
They've been arguing adventurism since McKinley, since John Quincy Adams.
You know, America doesn't want to look for monsters.
These rules.
If you think Bitcoin is interesting, or cryptocurrency, or digital currency, go back to the notion of bimetallism.
William Jennings Bryan, the cross of gold.
They've been talking about paper and money in one form or another.
They were talking about tariffs.
Luckily, we're not talking about slavery now, I don't think, but we are in some respects.
We had the opium wars.
I mean, think about this.
Everything you think is new, everything, every...
Consideration.
And then you realize, again, history would be a wonderful thing if only were true.
Then you realize, weird, the way it was relative to most people.
When you think about the 1920s, which I think would be probably the greatest time to live, the roaring 20s, most people who lived in the 20s didn't live in the roaring 20s.
They weren't in big cities.
They weren't watching flappers and listening to Josephine Baker or whoever it was.
It wasn't like that.
It wasn't like that.
The Wild West was nothing like, you thought.
The Civil War.
That's another thing too.
We're still arguing the Civil War.
What was that about?
What was the reason?
Was Lincoln what he said he was?
Then you hear this.
This is the most important aspect of the world.
The best and the worst presidents.
Oh my God.
I'll talk about that later on.
That's another issue which I love.
Nobody can even agree to that.
History.
Would be a wonderful thing if only it were true.
History, if ignored.
History, if ignored and not paid attention to.
History, if not looked at from a million different perspectives, from not only...
Our side, but their side, whoever that is, and listening to what people have to say, listening to their perspective, listening to their version of something that you swear, well, there's only one way to take it.
Oh, no, no, no, this is critical.
This is critical.
No matter what the issue is, no matter what.
I was watching a documentary recently on AIDS.
Remember, this is 1980, in the 80s.
During Reagan's age and the quilt and how it decimated New York and decimated big cities, nobody knew.
You talk about plagues?
You talk about people worrying about pandemics and epidemics?
Nobody knew what this was.
It was the most frightening thing in the world.
People walking around with Kaposi's sarcoma and pneumocystis pneumonia, a wasting disease.
It was horrible.
That was just 40 years ago.
To me, it was like yesterday.
That Never changes.
Health issues, pandemics, seen by various vantage points.
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