Sunday, May 15, 2005
 
History Erasure Almost Complete
Professor Bainbridge points to an article that might indicate that the ruling class has almost succeeded in erasing history to its benefit:
    Who will be the Greatest American? Political giant Abraham Lincoln or Bill Clinton? Sports legend Babe Ruth or Tiger Woods? Media mogul Oprah Winfrey or Walt Disney? These remarkable people, and many more, have been named by America as some of the top 100 Greatest Americans.
The common man gets to vote for the greatest American from these choices:
    Abraham Lincoln
    Albert Einstein
    Alexander Graham Bell
    Alexander Hamilton
    Amelia Earhart
    Andrew Carnegie
    Arnold Schwarzenegger
    Audie Murphy
    Babe Ruth
    Barack Obama
    Barbara Bush
    Benjamin Franklin
    Bill Clinton
    Bill Cosby (William Henry Cosby, Jr.)
    Bill Gates
    Billy Graham
    Bob Hope
    Brett Favre
    Carl Sagan
    Cesar Chavez
    Charles Lindbergh
    Christopher Reeve
    Chuck Yeager
    Clint Eastwood
    Colin Powell
    Condoleezza Rice
    Donald Trump
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    Eleanor Roosevelt (Anna Eleanor Roosevelt)
    Ellen DeGeneres
    Elvis Presley
    Frank Sinatra
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    Frederick Douglass
    George H. W. Bush
    George W. Bush
    George Lucas
    George Patton
    George Washington
    George Washington Carver
    Harriet Ross Tubman
    Harry Truman
    Helen Keller
    Henry Ford
    Hillary Rodham Clinton
    Howard Hughes
    Hugh Hefner
    Jackie Robinson (Jack Roosevelt Robinson)
    Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
    Jesse Owens
    Jimmy Carter
    Jimmy Stewart
    John Edwards
    John Glenn
    John F. Kennedy
    John Wayne
    Johnny Carson (John William Carson)
    Jonas Edward Salk
    Joseph Smith Jr.
    Katharine Hepburn
    Lance Armstrong
    Laura Bush
    Lucille Ball
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    Madonna (Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone)
    Malcolm X (Malcolm Little)
    Marilyn Monroe
    Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
    Martha Stewart
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    Maya Angelou
    Mel Gibson
    Michael Jackson
    Michael Jordan
    Michael Moore
    Muhammad Ali (Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr.)
    Neil Alden Armstrong
    Nikola Tesla
    Oprah Winfrey
    Pat Tillman
    Dr. Phil McGraw
    Ray Charles
    Richard Nixon
    Robert Kennedy
    Ronald Reagan
    Rosa Parks
    Rudolph W. Giuliani
    Rush Limbaugh
    Sam Walton
    Steve Jobs
    Steven Spielberg
    Susan B. Anthony
    Theodore Roosevelt
    Thomas Edison
    Thomas Jefferson
    Tiger Woods
    Tom Cruise
    Tom Hanks
    Walt Disney
    Wrights Brothers (Orville & Wilbur Wright)

Excellent! The blurring of historical achievement and current celebrity. Once the process of completely eliminating a sense of history from citizens occurs, the greatest Americans will narrow to contemporary celebrities and political figures. Wirhout a perspective on history, who will we be to challenge the thoughts and views of the Greatest Americans as they tell us what to do and think?

My, aren't I dystopian in the morning?


- posted by Brian J. @ 9:24 AM
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