Tag: history
The Ideology of Anti-Heretical Crusade in the 1838 Mormon War
“Up, awake, ye defenders of Zion!The foe’s at the door of your homes;Let each heart be the heart of a lion,Unyielding and proud as he roams.Remember the trials of Missouri;Forget not the courage of Nauvoo…Tho, assisted by legions infernal,The plundering foemen advance,With a host from the regions eternalWe’ll scatter their troops at a glanceBy His…
To End All Wars?
About four years ago, I read All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque on a Sunday in November, a lot like this one. It was painful. Paul (the “protagonist,” if there is one) is a brutal narrator. Reading most of the book in a day made his story more real, rushed, and urgent. I remember…
The Fetishization of Individuals: From Hitler to Ken Bone
Humans have a relentless tendency to treat individuals as microcosms for the world. If we can identify a certain individual who fits into a group, we generalize this individual and make him/her representative of the group or concept as a whole. When we speak about these concepts or groups, we are implicitly thinking of these fetishized…
The Gradual Causes and Long History of the ‘Fake News Crisis’
It seems undeniable that the specter of fake news has taken control of the media. It seems that we’ve now entered a dark age of journalism, where the fake is indistinguishable from the real. It seems that we have entered an unprecedented era of hoaxing and counterfeiting. But journalism has never been free of fake…