Comments on: The Hob Gadling Society http://www.widgettwalls.com/2006/05/22/the-hob-gadling-society/ Fresh from my brain pan to the breakfast tables of the world. Sun, 06 Nov 2011 08:57:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: T Diddy http://www.widgettwalls.com/2006/05/22/the-hob-gadling-society/comment-page-1/#comment-5973 T Diddy Wed, 31 May 2006 16:54:59 +0000 http://www.onetusk.com/otjournal/?p=285#comment-5973 You'd probably have better luck in Europe, Widge. It's where the castles are parked, after all. It's a weird filter effect Americans have in general with history. Even more liberty is taken when the history in question is not even ours. As evidenced by the sheer number of history channel spinoffs on the cable dial- History is just as much an American consumer good as the Big Mac. And unfortunately, just as disposable- because if we were actually paying attention to all this history we're shown, we might have LEARNED something by now.... I've seen some revolutionary and colonial reenactments up north that are pretty accurate, and the closer you are to an actually IMPORTANT Civil War Battle site, the more accurate it's actually going be, I've found. You'd probably have better luck in Europe, Widge. It's where the castles are parked, after all.

It's a weird filter effect Americans have in general with history. Even more liberty is taken when the history in question is not even ours.

As evidenced by the sheer number of history channel spinoffs on the cable dial- History is just as much an American consumer good as the Big Mac. And unfortunately, just as disposable- because if we were actually paying attention to all this history we're shown, we might have LEARNED something by now….

I've seen some revolutionary and colonial reenactments up north that are pretty accurate, and the closer you are to an actually IMPORTANT Civil War Battle site, the more accurate it's actually going be, I've found.

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