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Greg12 posted:The paragraph on "Keynesian" in high school textbooks is "prime the pump." But, Keynes was a genius cool guy who hung around with poets and artists. He's not limited to, "government should deficit spend to fill in the shortfall of private spending until private spending picks up." His philosophy was something like, "The good things in life are good and fun and everyone should be able to live a good and fun life. There's no morality in economics or government spending. The government's job should be to do things so that people can be secure and happy. In the long run, we are all dead." But, he was a genius, so there's much more to it. maybe it's just an anecdotal experience but I remember that, of all the various history courses I had in grade school, literally only one of them managed to cover any events past about 1865, since history ended after abraham lincoln died and we really shouldn't talk about the things that happened between now and then because the founding fathers were right and that's all that matters the bits and pieces of modern history I learned in class were mostly world war 2/holocaust related and adjacent from literature courses that would spend a lot of time on things like Night. as far as my history classes were concerned, the most important things in world history are 1. the egyptians, the greeks, and the romans, but mostly the egyptians for some reason 2. the founding of the british colonies 3. the american revolution 4. remember the alamo 5. the civil war (not the american civil war, simply the civil war, because it's the only one that matters) of course all of this is coming from a 90s-00s Texan education so that probably partially explains why it's so loving imbalanced. don't need to worry about kids getting all liberal if they just assume that nothing important happened since 1865 ended racism for all time. Minera has issued a correction as of 14:48 on Feb 22, 2021 |
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