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by NaggingGranpa 2387 days ago
The cold leftovers can still be highly nutritious to those raised on processed, mythologized, state-endorsed pseudo-history.
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I don't know what to say except that as someone who has studied history professionally for some years, Yarvin's history is far more mythologized than the "state-endorsed pseudo-history." Hell, Yarvin's writings were the state-endorsed pseudo-history from about 1820 to 1920.

They read like a text by a Reiki guru about quantum physics. It, too, can be surprising by pointing out that the Newtonian mechanics you learned in high-school is far from the whole story, except that the story they give is just... wrong. I'm not saying one couldn't come to the same position as him while actually knowing history, but he specifically certainly doesn't.

Mythmaking and mythbusting do not have to be mutually exclusive. If one can recognize the former, the whole can be edifying.