May 12, 2008
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Chicago World's Fair Erased from Public Memory Vast Expo of Capitalistic Greed
I just finished reading The Devil in the White City, and have been dumbstruck at how a population could have seemingly forgotten two enormous events in our own history, the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, which gave us electricity, and made Wrigley's, Westingouse, and many others household names and seemingly changed the course of history, and the serial killer, Dr. Holmes, who disected and tortured possibly 200 people, in favor of Jack the Ripper.... I rave about it.... I have been doing some research and it seems that I am not the only one who sees that certain things, events, relationships and otherwise connections are not that easily made.
I'm no genius, but I consider myself well read and not knowing a lot of this stuff amazes me but what amazes me is the stuff I do know and how some parts of history are not always retold or are replaced with other stuff.
The older I get, the more I see.... I don't like what I can see. I have said this before.
It seems that people are making their own independent videos and putting them on YouTube and here is one which expresses some of my concerns.
An interesting lesson in unspoken history...School kids are making these historical essays and they are good.
Comments (4)
the collective unconscious is not the whole experience. it's the easily digested and handled scraps that make it through the collective filter. thanks to archaelogists like you, we unearth parts that we'd rather not think about and it makes us richer. dontcha think?
i agree 100% - i often find myself in shock about how little so many people know of their history and the world around them - but perhaps this is why we end up with people like Bush as president as well as watching our personal freedoms being slowly dismantled in the name of national security! peace, Al
I'm leaving you comments on blogs I missed to give you some extra credits.
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