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maybe it’s just my toxic trait but it is genuinely really satisfying learning about people I disagree with. most recently felt this while visiting la conciergerie and seeing the section on Robespierre last week. obviously, the French ppl were right to overthrow the monarch, and I also feel like American text books never get into the fact that this revolution was really two revolutions within a few years, because the first revolutionary government was crazy. Robespierre was in charge of propagand, and his work (guillotining people) was an act of national security and public health.
I think he genuinely viewed terror as necessary for good, which is just so fascimating. I disagree a lot, but it’s so much fun to daydream about what an Interview may have been like.
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Mayors are universally the most insane people on the planet. I’m obsessed with learning about them and their bizarre fiefdoms
Jan 28, 2024
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Like so many people, I never cared for history. It was always just a bunch of dates, cause-and-effect relationships, and names I had to memorize last minute before an exam. Now that I’m so many years separated from all that, I’ve finally found that I’m entering the pro-history phase of my life. I mean, it’s just so interesting. There’s such finite details available about everything, and sooo many different little niches with tons of resources equally as available as the obvious stuff. oh and it’s true, which is both terrifying and cool.
Feb 1, 2022
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so fun to read academic articles and see just how petty the authors are - i feel like academic writing gets a bad rep for being boring (which it often is) but it can also be so fun to see academics tearing each other to pieces in a sophisticated way - this came up bc i have to write a paper on the differences between sociology and history (or if i don't think there are any) and sociologist straight up said that historians don't know anything about history
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like many of the other responses to this post, I think that having physical copies of media ensures that there is some enduring access. It’s archival.
I would also add that having the physical copies enhances engagement with the media. This is of course a privilege bc physical media is usually more expensive than digital, but I do think that consuming Digital media is often more passive. Idk. I love my phone too (and Spotify and the internet archive and Gutenberg project). But after I started collecting CDs and physical books I became very interested in getting as much as possible out of them. listening to the same album in its entirety for weeks at a time. rereading a book (Seriously, I would rarely reread a book before).
Also lending the copies to friends is the best thing in the world. Like being able to share and then discus- or even just the sharing. Whether or not you get it back it just becomes a gift. Which is nice.
Anyways to blabber on this last point: I don’t think that you always have to personally own and keep forever all of the physical media you accrue. just going to a library does a lot of the same good (supporting local archiving + engaging with stuff my tangibly + media becoming communal). learning that many libraries still have VHS, CDs, and DVDs available to check out changed my life. ya.
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