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Pinstripe Press Blog: Author and Historian Michael Aubrecht
March 11, 2008
In response to Eric?s recent posts on the History Channel and the lack-of history

Today I was meditating, OK… I was really sitting around stoned on pain meds and watching the movie 'Gettysburg' when it came to me... WHAT is historically significant about US in our time that future peoples will look back on their ‘History Channel’ and learn about?

The nauseating conclusion is that there is really nothing that we (collectively) do today that is worthy (when compared to the ancients that we study). Today, we could never engineer an empire, or build an underworld, or be considered the 'greatest generation.' Really. What have we done? It would be funny if there wasn't any truth in it.

Here’s a list of future History Channel shows that will be most likely showcasing our pathetic contributions to the timeline of man:

  • Ancient Reality TV: Anything Goes
  • The Idolization of American Idol
  • Steroid Sports and Criminal Competitors
  • Internet Porn and the First Amendment
  • The ‘Me’ Generation: A History of Entitlement
  • Ebonic Nation: The Secret Language of Rap
  • Illegal Immigration: Everyone's Doing It
  • The 2008 Election: Great Slogans - No Substance
  • Cultureless: America's Forgotten Past
  • 300 Channels And Nothing's On
  • Ice Truckers (*I assume there will still be ice and truckers)
(Bummer. Hopefully, there will be plenty of revisionist historians around in the future to make us look somewhat like our forefathers.)

Posted by ny5/pinstripepress at 4:17 PM EDT
Updated: March 12, 2008 2:09 PM EDT
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