“History is ending because the dominator culture has led the human species into a blind alley, and as the inevitable catastrophe approaches, people look for metaphors and answers. Every time a culture gets into trouble it casts itself back into the past looking for the last sane moment it ever knew.”
Terence McKenna
This project began as a lofty dream of being able to really “stick it to the man!” with the power of…get this…words… and on the internet at that… I had finally had enough of the political theater, the blatant lies, the hollow rhetoric. I was tired of every media headline being vague hyperbole for vacuous click-bait. I couldn’t stand to listen to another speech without a single coherent sentence.
I was going to write articles with clear and concise headlines. I would call out the hyperbole, the lies, and avoid the bias as best I could. Any claim I made would be fact-checked and supported. I had dreams of debunking every falsehood.
Needless to say, that candle burned bright and fast, and I very quickly felt myself snuffed out by the endless outpouring of content and media that seems to be drowning us all. This also coincided with the rapid polarization that was seemingly on the rise across the political spectrum in the United States. Ultimately, I felt as if my efforts were futile because I was acting alone and intending to change the world.
Demonizing the other will never result in the progress we seek, no matter how right we may be or how just the cause. The strongest weapon against propaganda is understanding.
The initial goal was to bring critical political commentary and in-depth articles to your news feed. Here you can find numerous articles relating to the contemporary politics and relevant history of the United States at the time of this project’s inception. Now, these blog posts serve as teaching material in my social studies classes for lessons on topics such as bias, sourcing, and online media.
The Political Historian has a Bachelor of Science in Multidisciplinary History, a Master of Arts in General History, and experience as a social studies teacher and writing tutor. Their academic focus began with political science and public history, and morphed into a deep dive into history with a focus in undergrad on philosophy and ancient governments. In graduate school these interests shifted to racial slavery in North America, the development of capitalism, Marxism, the War on Drugs in the United States, and the intersectionalities of the Atlantic world.
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