What Story Are You Telling Your Kids?
"There are a few versions of history you can tell your kids. You can tell them the propaganda version—the fables, the self-serving myths, the lies that dictators or the jingoists like to traffic in. You can tell them the dark truth version, the almost-nihilist 'People’s History' version that is resurgent today—that everything is bad, was done with evil intention, that all of history is a cover for malevolence and that progress is impossible. Or you can tell them the third version: The one that does not deny history or hope. The one that looks to see the good in people without pretending the…
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