/lit/ - Literature

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>If professional historians become a thing of the past, there will be no one able to temper these types of arguments
This is the best they could come up with? We need more historians because they'll fact-check twitter threads and attempt to counter junk biographies by O'Reilly and the like with their own *unbiased* work?
What this guy is missing is that Americans don't want to learn, they want to be told what to think. Schools do hardly anything to prepare us for understanding current events (the only practical use of history), and so when we're old enough to vote on these current issues we're completely unprepared to make an assured judgement of them, which is why so many people turn to smarmy media personalities for opinions. Fucking Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly aren't creating a culture of braindead drones with their books, they're filling a niche. It's a broad issue caused by failures at an institutional level, and an uptick in history majors with savior complexes won't fix it by arguing with random twitter users.