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All good history should be revisionist, as historians should constantly re-examine and re-evaluate their own methods and those of earlier historians. Also, historians' unjust and irrational ignoring, disparagement, or exclusion of marginalized people--e.g. women, Gays, and ethnic minorities--needs to be redressed to produce more accurate histories.Quote:
Originally Posted by tonywalt
The current explosion of super-hero movies and TV shows?
West Coast, West Coast, West Coast.Quote:
Originally Posted by tonywalt
The current explosion of super-hero movies and TV shows?
I just mean tailoring history to serve a modern political or social agenda, because history, especially revisionism in a technical sense, is supposed to do the opposite of that. It's supposed to be skeptical, not duplicitous.
Tough choice. I grew up in the NE and don't think I could ever quite "think" West Coast." My wife and I currently snowbird between New England and the Far East, which has been working out, but we are probably going to move the American end to the Southwest. So neither? Or if I really had to choose, probably home.
Irish beer or German beer?
Nay
Fight a cold/flue naturally or off to doctor to get antibiotics/other drugs?
Heh.
Give me the drugs to kill it.
Another Rolling Stones tour?
Sure, it's probably more important to Mick and crew than the audience. But i do love the Stones.
The end of Stadium Rock Bands as we use to know it? (arguably still around, but i disagree)
Only Foo Fighters, Coldplay, Metallica, and maybe Muse could pack a stadium today, and Coldplay is hardly rock. Radiohead stopped being rock awhile ago. Rock just isn't the main popular or youth music anymore; hip-hop is...no matter how much that rankles the "old farts"
There are excellent rock bands left--e.g. Arctic Monkeys and Grizzly Bear--but they can't touch the popularity of Drake or Lil Wayne
Will Hillary's presidency bring rises in misogyny the way Obama's presidency brought rises in racism?
No
Highly organized vacations?
Nay. The sweet anarchy of the flesh.
Vacations to cold climates?
Nay. I like the ocean
Hike the AT?
aye aye, I would love to do that...but its lower down my list after cycling coast to coast and canoeing from my home town to the Mississippi to the gulf of mexico. but if I found the right person who strongly preferred the AT, id do that one first.
"beach" reads?
Nay. Beaches are for looking at, um, nature.
John Wayne?
laughs...
how about "beach" reads away from distracting, er...beaches?
totally aye to john wayne, at least movie wise.
john wayne cowboy movies or john wayne soldier movies?
His westerns, although both can be fun.
Silent movies?
aye, in a very small dose. maybe a few a year. I took a music and the film class in college and one of the things we had to do was put a musical score to a silent movie. if I remember rightly I chose some scene from a Charlie chaplin movie where some woman was beating on him with her umbrella.
and oh heck, I asked a this or that question in the aye or nay thread!
mel brooks movie "history of the world?"