I was looking at the Non-Sports forum over the past calendar year and, excluding spam and a bunch of Shtickless-inspired threads that had a brief run, the topics covered were roughly 70 political and 10 non-political. 70-10? Since when did non-sports, about as broad of a category as one can create, mean politics in our society?
It's bullsh*t, it's boring and it's destructive. Not that politics aren't important. They are. It's the way Americans go ABOUT politics which has turned dangerous and disgusting. Neo-fascist totalitarians screaming at neo-Marxist totalitarians and neither side saying a damn thing of real consequence. So, I'm going to create a thread here that literally nobody will care about because it has nothing to do with the obsession that is American politics today.
This thread will be dedicated to World War I - easily the most fascinating war in the past few centuries of European history (since the Napoleonic Wars at least) and one of the most fascinating conflicts of all time regardless of continent. If your exposure to The Great War is through brain-dead Ivy League drivel, this will be a different approach. As a academician, I was trained NOT to superimpose current day morals and ethics onto historical periods, something the League can't help but do out of arrogance and narcissism. It skews and ruins everything history should be teaching us. This will be a level discussion, not slanted to the left nor the right and without all of the revisionist garbage found in today's textbooks and on the Internet.
If you do read, I hope you enjoy. All of my content will be in the unbroken reserved posts starting with this one. I have no doubt people will post cat memes and political Jabberwocky below my final one marked "reserved." At least I will be contributing something to Non-Sports other than politics, like Lenny's good Lists for the Listless thread. There should be more threads like that one, or this one, or anything other than political hate. If you want to reach me about this topic, please sitemail me. I'd love to hear from you.
8/10/2023 7:46 PM (edited)