{"id":2256,"date":"2005-05-15T14:24:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-15T14:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2256"},"modified":"2018-06-08T16:38:30","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T21:38:30","slug":"history-erasure-almost-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/15\/history-erasure-almost-complete\/","title":{"rendered":"History Erasure Almost Complete"},"content":{"rendered":"

Professor Bainbridge points<\/a> to an article that might indicate that the ruling class has almost succeeded in erasing history to its benefit<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Who will be the Greatest American? Political giant Abraham Lincoln or Bill Clinton? Sports legend Babe Ruth or Tiger Woods? Media mogul Oprah Winfrey or Walt Disney? These remarkable people, and many more, have been named by America as some of the top 100 Greatest Americans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The common man gets to vote for the greatest American from these choices:<\/p>\n

Abraham Lincoln
\n Albert Einstein
\n Alexander Graham Bell
\n Alexander Hamilton
\n Amelia Earhart
\n Andrew Carnegie
\n Arnold Schwarzenegger
\n Audie Murphy
\n Babe Ruth
\n Barack Obama
\n Barbara Bush
\n Benjamin Franklin
\n Bill Clinton
\n Bill Cosby (William Henry Cosby, Jr.)
\n Bill Gates
\n Billy Graham
\n Bob Hope
\n Brett Favre
\n Carl Sagan
\n Cesar Chavez
\n Charles Lindbergh
\n Christopher Reeve
\n Chuck Yeager
\n Clint Eastwood
\n Colin Powell
\n Condoleezza Rice
\n Donald Trump
\n Dwight D. Eisenhower
\n Eleanor Roosevelt (Anna Eleanor Roosevelt)
\n Ellen DeGeneres
\n Elvis Presley
\n Frank Sinatra
\n Franklin D. Roosevelt
\n Frederick Douglass
\n George H. W. Bush
\n George W. Bush
\n George Lucas
\n George Patton
\n George Washington
\n George Washington Carver
\n Harriet Ross Tubman
\n Harry Truman
\n Helen Keller
\n Henry Ford
\n Hillary Rodham Clinton
\n Howard Hughes
\n Hugh Hefner
\n Jackie Robinson (Jack Roosevelt Robinson)
\n Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
\n Jesse Owens
\n Jimmy Carter
\n Jimmy Stewart
\n John Edwards
\n John Glenn
\n John F. Kennedy
\n John Wayne
\n Johnny Carson (John William Carson)
\n Jonas Edward Salk
\n Joseph Smith Jr.
\n Katharine Hepburn
\n Lance Armstrong
\n Laura Bush
\n Lucille Ball
\n Lyndon B. Johnson
\n Madonna (Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone)
\n Malcolm X (Malcolm Little)
\n Marilyn Monroe
\n Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
\n Martha Stewart
\n Martin Luther King Jr.
\n Maya Angelou
\n Mel Gibson
\n Michael Jackson
\n Michael Jordan
\n Michael Moore
\n Muhammad Ali (Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr.)
\n Neil Alden Armstrong
\n Nikola Tesla
\n Oprah Winfrey
\n Pat Tillman
\n Dr. Phil McGraw
\n Ray Charles
\n Richard Nixon
\n Robert Kennedy
\n Ronald Reagan
\n Rosa Parks
\n Rudolph W. Giuliani
\n Rush Limbaugh
\n Sam Walton
\n Steve Jobs
\n Steven Spielberg
\n Susan B. Anthony
\n Theodore Roosevelt
\n Thomas Edison
\n Thomas Jefferson
\n Tiger Woods
\n Tom Cruise
\n Tom Hanks
\n Walt Disney
\n Wrights Brothers (Orville & Wilbur Wright)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Excellent! The blurring of historical achievement and current celebrity. Once the process of completely eliminating a sense of history from citizens occurs, the greatest Americans will narrow to contemporary celebrities and political figures. Wirhout a perspective on history, who will we be to challenge the thoughts and views of the Greatest Americans as they tell us what to do and think?<\/p>\n

My, aren’t I dystopian in the morning?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Professor Bainbridge points to an article that might indicate that the ruling class has almost succeeded in erasing history to its benefit: Who will be the Greatest American? Political giant Abraham Lincoln or Bill Clinton? Sports legend Babe Ruth or Tiger Woods? Media mogul Oprah Winfrey or Walt Disney? These remarkable people, and many more, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2256"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20112,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256\/revisions\/20112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}