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that he had
it's a good window into what hes interested in
Here's something I'm reading right now.
Analysis of Norse myth. Specifically, the parallels between the Hrolf Kraki legends and Beowulf. Very well researched. Worth a read.
I'm fully immersed in local geopol and political history shit rn
in terms of reading
looking at lots of maps
and whatnot
Right now, I'm listening to a debate between Boris Johnson and Mary Beard, on Greece v Rome. It's glorious.
lol
i listened to that a long time ago
imagine being called "Beard" and being a woman
sad times
she came out defending that bbc black roman cartoon
lmfao
*Sigh*
she seems respected as a historian, but ive always noticed a kind of wishful thinking on her part
like she emphasizes the things she wants to be true
in these cases Rome's multicultural aspects
and suddenly that turns into, its entirely possibly for there to be a family of african romans in britain
so common it warrants this depiction on the bbc
it's not impossible
but the possibility is not the point here
true
cartoon equivalent of this
we wuz compozers an shiiiiit
The problem is that they exaggerated the amount of black people in Roman Britain. A handful of black soldiers makes sense, since there were soldiers from the north of Africa, but to have them ALL be black or mixed-race is absurd.
Yes, we wuz Kangs.
this is woke history tho
its history designed to create like a new mythos for multicultural britain
According to Geoffrey of Monmouth, We Wuz Trojans. This kind of bullshit has been around for centuries.
Not quite. The problem isn't inaccuracy as such. I mean it is, but that is a minor problem because that might as well be caused by a glitch in the system that allowed through someone who was wrong to spread their honest mistake. Here it is lying on purpose for the benefit of a political agenda, and doing so systematically.
Steven Moffat the tv producer succinctly summarized the agenda talking about black washing on doctor who
"We've kind of got to tell a lie. We'll go back into history and there will be black people where, historically, there wouldn't have been, and we won't dwell on that.
"We'll say, 'To hell with it, this is the imaginary, better version of the world. By believing in it, we'll summon it forth'."
that last part is the motto of much of this revisionism
It's not error, it's the rejection of logocentrism.
Geoffrey of Monmouth's mythohistory of Britain was just as ideologically-driven as woke history now.
then it was just as bad
In his case, it was about creating a proud mythic past for the British people to be proud of. Unlike woke history, however, Monmouth's work had a positive effect, as it spawned the Arthurian legend.
Like woke history, though, many people believed his History of the Kings of Britain to be historical fact, until the 1500's, when Tacitus's accounts of the Britons were re-discovered.