{"id":39355,"date":"2018-10-19T06:12:46","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T11:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39355"},"modified":"2018-10-19T06:12:46","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T11:12:46","slug":"the-last-history-of-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39355","title":{"rendered":"The Last History of the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Last History of the United States<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Photo Source Boston Public Library | CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The words \u201cWe hold\u00a0these truths\u00a0to be\u00a0self-evident, that all men are created equal\u2026\u201d, from America\u2019s Declaration of Independence, stands as one of the finest historical examples of what Hitler, and later Goebbels, called the big lie. Hitler wrote in Mein Kamf (<\/em>1925) \u201cthat in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily\u2026\u201d In Jill Lepore\u2019s These Truths<\/em>\u2013 A History of the United States<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(2018), she painstakingly exposes the truth that America is founded on hypocrisy.<\/p>\n

The greatest fear of the Founding Fathers was democracy. Their intent was to establish a white aristocracy of wealth largely based on the productivity of African slaves. \u00a0Lepore shows that they succeeded beyond their wildest dreams of avarice and power. She shows that big lies and little lies have subsequently sustained the illusion of democracy in the United States and the fa\u00e7ade of inclusivity and freedom it presents to the world. The nation\u2019s underlying hypocrisy is rarely challenged; instead, political factions compete to demonstrate (or at least propagandize) their fealty to its foundational \u201ctruths\u201d. Along the way, the means of communication, from broadsheet to newspaper, radio, TV, computers and now the internet have serially compounded the ability of partisans to disseminate their truths \u2013 to propogandize more effectively.<\/p>\n

The narrative she weaves, over almost 800 pages, is more requiem than history \u2013 the ship of state, in her telling, now wallows adrift on a rising ocean bereft of a mainsail.<\/p>\n

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The Last History of the United States Photo Source Boston Public Library | CC BY 2.0 The words \u201cWe hold\u00a0these truths\u00a0to be\u00a0self-evident, that all men are created equal\u2026\u201d, from America\u2019s Declaration of Independence, stands as one of the finest historical examples of what Hitler, and later Goebbels, called the big lie. Hitler wrote in Mein […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[22413,5493,204,16986,2500,1458,1236,18238,22412,3307,827],"class_list":["post-39355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-aristrocracy","tag-counterpunch","tag-democracy","tag-goebbels","tag-history","tag-hitler","tag-hypocrisy","tag-john-davis","tag-mein-kamf","tag-the-big-lie","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39356,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39355\/revisions\/39356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}