Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
In Carlin's defence, I don't think that he's ever claimed to be an "historian"? If anything, he seems to be almost defensively insistent about the fact he's just an enthusiast.
By guilt trips I was refering to the tendancy of some modern historians to demonstrate an insouciant hostility to the standard Leaders and Wars historical narrative, as well as to the old American Exceptionalism school.
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I listened to the first half hour of Wrath of the Khans and the guy sounded like he had learned all his history from playing civ and would have gotten thrashed if he had posted what he was saying that in this forum. The only thinking I did was "wow, this man is pretty insensible".
I thought it was Space Lizards.Wrong. The Great Motor of History is the Climate!
Well yeah, and climate is controlled by the Satirists. Great Family theory wins again.Wrong. The Great Motor of History is the Climate!
Wrong. The Great Motor of History is the Climate!
That is precisely what we disagree on.Pop history or not, I think we all could agree that the substance is legitimate.
That is precisely what we disagree on.
I love a good contrarian<333333333
Surely as a history lover, you could appreciate this. You stated before that you only got through the beginnings of the Roman episodes, which was replete with revisionist history and competing claims. oh well. To each his own
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revisionist_history
For instance, and Carlin talks about this in his Mongols series, some modern historians have credited the Mongolians for opening up trade between the east and west, slowing the Caliphate, changing the balance of military power in the crusades, etc.. As if at the times, these could be intended positive or negative outcomes. These unintended consequences can only be considered beneficial now that we revision them. We do this and forget the 10's of millions of deaths and the fact that the Mongolians didnt intend any of this.
http://www.amazon.com/Genghis-Khan-Making-Modern-World/dp/0609809644
To the point of what my new mancrush DACHS brought up, I would guess that he had problems with Dans portrayal of the gracchi brothers. Or maybe his lack of contribution to the punic wars. Clearly DACHS knows his stuff, I think its just a bit of Ivory tower analysis tbqh.
Definitely not a liberal guilt tripper. More of a coureur des bois from Arkansas