Comments by "Itinerant Patriot" (@itinerantpatriot1196) on "The Slow Downfall of the History Channel - How History Works" video.

  1. It's sad that people find lies more compelling than history. That men who killed Kennedy crap ran on A&E first. I was one of those who bought all the JFK conspiracy nonsense until I watched that series. That started me on a fact-finding campaign and where I started with a conspiracy going in I came out the end with a three-time-loser, a $19.00 mail-order rifle (with scope) and a guy with a death wish who didn't give a damn about the stress he put on the men whose job it was to protect him. Main takeaway, don't put a fatalist in the White House, but I digress. I enjoyed the History Channel, A&E, even the Learning Channel when they arrived on the scene but the plume fell off the rose pretty fast. The History Channel still dabbles in history now and again and some of it is even okay to pretty good. And some of it ranges from garbage (their World War documentary) to hot stinking garbage (Sam Adams as an action hero). But then I don't really watch much of what cable has to offer anyway. Decent television programming wasn't the only casualty reality-TV left in its wake. It acted as a force multiplier alongside social media to make our culture and politics more coarse. Worse, it has helped distract people to the point where we are literally amusing ourselves to death as the book with that title written in the 1980s postulated. Our education system has dumbed down America in a whole host of academic disciplines but none as thoroughly as history, civics, and economics. You don't have to be a conspiracy/tin-foil hat guy to connect those particular dots. Is it really any wonder why we can't even agree on the definition of male and female or what bathrooms should be used by whom? I'll just leave it there because anymore speculation on my part will result a "return error" by the omnipresent TY hall-monitors. Who knows, maybe it really is aliens from the planet Zoltar messing with our culture. Why? Tune in next week to the guy with crazy hairdo for that answer. The other guy with crazy Nostradamus hairdo will be along after him to explain how it was all predicted in some quatrain. Sleep well boys and girls but stay alert. It's a brave new world out there and it's getting braver by the hour.
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