oooh, color me interested on the woodrow wilson stuff! which is not to say I will read it -- uni gives me more than enough to read, and specifically about history too, to exhaust my stamina and then some- -- but at least the topic will be rattling around in my brain from time to time probably
around here, where we get fed... not none, but far less of the US's propaganda, I was never given the impression that wilson's performance at the peace table wasn't about as ignorant and naïve as you'd expect from the leader of a nation that was firmly on the side of This Is None Of My Freaken Business for two years, but I've still always thought of his turning his back on the europeans as something sort of... emblematic of the dawning realizations and moods that would pepper the 1920s. that the Great War did not in fact solve politics forever and the authorities were right back to the same nationalism and revanchism that had gotten them into that mess in the first place and oh god oh fuck how long until we're staring down more of The Horrors, sod this I'm going to stop conforming to gender
but that's all to say, it's still news to me how little of wilson's shit the europeans were having at all, and perhaps I'm in for discovering that his handling of the peace talks was even MORE naïve and ignorant than I'd previously known. intriguing! and what can I say, I'm always down for tearing down the US's self-aggrandizing narratives,
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around here, where we get fed... not none, but far less of the US's propaganda, I was never given the impression that wilson's performance at the peace table wasn't about as ignorant and naïve as you'd expect from the leader of a nation that was firmly on the side of This Is None Of My Freaken Business for two years, but I've still always thought of his turning his back on the europeans as something sort of... emblematic of the dawning realizations and moods that would pepper the 1920s. that the Great War did not in fact solve politics forever and the authorities were right back to the same nationalism and revanchism that had gotten them into that mess in the first place and oh god oh fuck how long until we're staring down more of The Horrors, sod this I'm going to stop conforming to gender
but that's all to say, it's still news to me how little of wilson's shit the europeans were having at all, and perhaps I'm in for discovering that his handling of the peace talks was even MORE naïve and ignorant than I'd previously known. intriguing! and what can I say, I'm always down for tearing down the US's self-aggrandizing narratives,