A People's History of the United States, Chapter 8

[@oskarmartin114]

You have no idea how much you are saving me in my AP USH course, fascinating read, and as some one who listens to a lot of audio books this is most defiantly, one of the better narrations.

[@elkidsandiego]

I really enjoy the reader as his voices and inflections bring the history to life!

[@mira-sturdivant]

okay I'm on chapter 8 and I haven't commented yet.... so here it is. THANK YOU for doing these. I am so relieved, this is the absolute best audiobook option for this book. absolutely excellent

[@nicholaswhite8275]

39:47 “I will serve crack before this country”😂😂

[@AudioAnarchy]

Absolutely savaging the entire enterprise. It's incredible.

[@nicholaswhite8275]

@@AudioAnarchy I’m in awe of how similar the grievances are with modern Twitter. “History repeats itself” sounds a lot more insidious when you see the great lengths people went through to ensure it is that way.

[@AudioAnarchy]

@@nicholaswhite8275 Out of curiosity, which grievances are you referring to? What comes to my mind are, like, how algorithms can be determined by people with power creating a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy (growing their following and increasing exposure to certain ideas, for example). Or how Twitter, like, refuses to deplatform Nazis, etc. But if you're being more literal, discussing how power will manufacture consent for a war to enrich themselves, I think that the 24-hour news cycle may do *far* more damage.

[@nicholaswhite8275]

@@AudioAnarchy so I 10,000% agree with you about media coverage being the primary source of manufactured consent it’s inevitable in capitalism (Chomsky)I would say grievances from the people. Things like “Our leaders of each major party aren’t all that different”, “the way to placate violent uprisings (and only the violent ones cuz they co-opt any nonviolent movements) is incremental change”(George Floyd Act). I think about Cuba and the regurgitation of years of repeated myths in our history classes and the damage that’s done in our thinking. It’s chilling when you see the LAW this thing that you are taught is everything be molded in it’s inception so intentionally for the ruling class (then rich white men now just rich people) . Not surprising but it hurts a little because this is easy to understand (I am reading along with my brother in an effort to self educate ) and I would have gotten this as a 6th grader. It’s sucks to be oppressed. Kwame Ture once said no one wants to say they are oppressed cuz it’s shameful. I get that now

[@AudioAnarchy]

Ohhhhh! I see what you mean. Full agree. Grievances being aired today on social media are extremely similar, and I think the one good thing about social media is that it allows for those ideas outside Chomsky's "filters" to gain a little bit of traction (though it also lets fucking fash radicalize and recruit). Yeah, the hurt is extremely felt as well. It's so hard to look at the true scope of history, and American history, and realize how much propaganda you were fed, and how much otherwise potential allies have had to swallow, too. I slightly disagree about "then rich white men, now just the rich," in that whiteness still carries a pretty significant cachet. I'll give you an example: I managed to scrape up and buy a house a couple years ago, and the first real estate agent I worked with heavily implied that I shouldn't move to a certain neighborhood because "you should go there and see who lives there." I...stopped using her, but, like, that white privilege is still hard-coded in so much.

[@elkidsandiego]

I really enjoy the reading which really brings the history to life!

[@manofihsan8300]

Fantastic job!

[@ejkboxing]

Truce flags, peace talks, treaties, honor, rules of war, keeping your word meant absolutely nothing to the US government, US Army, nor their representatives. Israel does the same things in what used to be Palestine.

[@asahmed1980]

History repeats itself, has to, nobody listens. - Steve Turner

[@danishaffer934]

Its good to know the party system's never changed, end the two party facade. Workers of the world unite!

[@scott4170]

Why is JFK reading the letter at 40:00

[@AudioAnarchy]

My Boston becomes JFK really easily, unfortunately. It’s my pacing of the sentences/phrases.

[@gwynbleidd1917]

Its a shame you find it necessary to make these readings over the top theatrical. I can't focus on the actual substance of the book