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by ereyes01 2051 days ago
I think you've perfectly characterized why I love listening to Dan Carlin. He's masterful at personalizing history (even ancient history) and challenging you to ponder how you would act under the same circumstances.

I think this form of thinking, when approached with an open mind and a little imagination, is a wonderful antidote to the knee-jerk group-think that dominates today's discourse.

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Shame he is bad at history though. He is an entertainer, not someone to learn about the past from like you would from a historian.
In what ways is he bad at history? Do you have examples?