When a topic is very important and/or very technical, I tend to hold on to my posts longer.
This one's been building in me for a while, but now that it's out, I can breathe and focus on lighter (hopefully easier/shorter) pieces next week.
This is Part 2 on war propaganda.
Today, we look at the weaponization of history - and how this approach to our past diminishes us, and denies us access to a richer, more nuanced sense of the world we share.
https://open.substack.com/pub/mlclark/p/the-weaponization-of-ancient-history
A person after my own gnarly heart, Jeber! But your noggin must be filled with some pretty sordid sights as well, if this is a favourite topic for you, too.
(All jesting aside, if you come across good reading in this field, and feel inclined to post about it here, please @ me! I greatly enjoy learning from others' reading practices, and I suspect that you have a very good one.)