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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 6308000, member: 110504&quot;]...Okay, just watched the whole thing.&nbsp; It was well done enough to make me sit through it --as I rarely find it possible to do, for that much video, all at once.&nbsp; But I have to second [USER=110350]@DonnaML[/USER].</p><p>While it&#039;s good enough, for anything relating to history (especially this far back) in this medium, the initial thesis, that this <b><i>one</i></b> battle <b><i>decided the course of Europe</i></b> over a couple of millennia, is Pure Television.&nbsp; (.../Hyperbole.&nbsp; .../Expletive of choice.)&nbsp; To the producers&#039; credit, they obviously did this intentionally, to get some eyeballs (...as they did).&nbsp; Great tv rhetoric; frankly Crappy history.</p><p>...But, given which, it had all the advantages that the medium gets.&nbsp; On a more appropriately impressionistic level, I couldn&#039;t help comparing Arminius&#039; strategy, and commensurate statecraft, to that of two heroes among the First Nations of the eventual (...ostensibly, to this day) United States, who made similar efforts to unite <b><i>their</i></b> tribes against a common oppressor.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontiac_(Ottawa_leader)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontiac_(Ottawa_leader)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontiac_(Ottawa_leader)</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tecumseh" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tecumseh" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tecumseh</a></p><p>...Since it&#039;s February, this shortest month of the year when we&#039;re given official permission to celebrate Black History, I have to be reminded of the Maroons, in the hill country (aka &#039;the Cockpit&#039;) of Jamaica, who spent a good part of the 18th century fighting off the redcoats --one or more regiments at a time-- who were sent after <i>them</i>.</p><p>One lesson you can get from the study of&nbsp; history is reducible to this: <i>Avoid</i> communal narcissism.&nbsp; Along the lines of saying, &#039;well, <i>My</i> people were oppressed; that must mean that <i>we</i> were the <i>Only Ones</i>.&#039; </p><p>Start with that scale of communal historical delusion, and you&#039;ve already got the makings for the repitition of the same kind of garbage.</p><p>...&#039;Wash.&nbsp; Rinse.&nbsp; Repeat.&#039;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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