Here’s a great analysis of history textbooks that cover 9/11.
I can’t tell you how often students ask why I teach history only through literature but the answer is contained in the article. History writing is the most ideological and manipulative of all. But it’s also almost always derived of pleasure because the writing style is dry, pseudo-scientific, and boring. If I’m going to be manipulated, let it be by somebody like Octavio Paz, who is quite open about the manipulation but also a great poet.
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Yea I remember some stuff on 9/11 when I was in school in the first decade of the 2000’s but I remember the day it happened in 2001. But I don’t know how it’s taught nowadays
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Mike called this the best thing written on 9/11 :
The Falling Man
An unforgettable story.
By Tom Junod
Sep 9, 2021
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a48031/the-falling-man-tom-junod/
Wislawa wrote a poem on this photo:
Photograph from September 11
BY WISŁAWA SZYMBORSKA
TRANSLATED BY CLARE CAVANAGH
They jumped from the burning floors—
one, two, a few more,
higher, lower.
The photograph halted them in life,
and now keeps them
above the earth toward the earth.
Each is still complete,
with a particular face
and blood well hidden.
There’s enough time
for hair to come loose,
for keys and coins
to fall from pockets.
They’re still within the air’s reach,
within the compass of places
that have just now opened.
I can do only two things for them—
describe this flight
and not add a last line.
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And if this had occured in 2020, the vast majority of GOP/Trump’s electors (including yourself) would pretend that it was a false flag…
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“… it’s also almost always devoid of pleasure because the writing style is dry, pseudo-scientific …”
FTFY.
And yes, if I’m going to be manipulated, it’ll be for considerably better stakes and results than these.
I’m holding out for the next Sinclair Lewis or Thomas Wolfe myself. 🙂
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