>>3727710He doesn't seem that bad but a good public speaker he is not. What he's saying is rather eye-opening, though. He's talking about the truancy thing right now (about 15 minutes in) and it's pretty interesting how starkly that contrasts with the modern rhetoric on the antebellum south. I'll keep listening to this throughout the night. And as someone who believes New England should have seceded and created a puritan theocracy (with its seat in Connecticut; fuck Massachusetts Bay), I don't much care that he's been 'cancelled.'
I might buy the book, too, if this lecture is indicative of the content. I'm not really one for top-down, linear views of history and it doesn't seem like you are either so I'll give it a go once I finish what I'm reading now. I can probably find it at the used bookstore near where I live, unless the younger thoughtpolice employees have thrown it out already.
>>3727714I'll definitely watch this after. I love the slippery quality that secret societies and conspiracies like this possess.
What's a typical last name for some of the Confederate old blood? I have a fondness for the genealogy of olde new-england and the southern gentry of old seems very much in the same vein.
See, the salt thing is exactly what I mean. It's an excellent, almost scripted moment, to sit in the kitchen and wonder if I'm financing the destabilization of central and southern American countries by buying a specific brand of table salt.
I look forward to the next lesson.