>>3394>Confederate flags begin to vanish even from the private property to which it had been relegatedI'd actually consider getting one if I had a good place to do it from. I think a Northerner flying it might generate even more butthurt than a Southerner doing so.
>They could only accomplish such a cultural purging once the Civil War veterans' children were dead.It's weird to me just how much it's all vanished. It wasn't that long ago when you would see references to it all over in pop culture. The flag of the Army of Tennessee was considered a symbol of giving a finger to authority, and it didn't matter where you were from. There would be humorous depictions of characters uncharacteristically dressed in the blue and gray uniforms, and there wouldn't necessarily be any scorn heaped on the latter.
I think part of it also ties into just how much modern pop culture is largely based around memory holing the past in a broader sense, whether that be historical events or just stuff like cartoons that kids of previous generations all used to be familiar with. There's a good chance a kid at the beginning of the 2000s would watch things like Tom and Jerry, Looney Tunes, and Popeye in addition to more current cartoons like Dexter's Laboratory and Ed, Edd n Eddy. Nowadays that kind of cultural continuity has been severed. These days you're likely to see a shoddy counterfeit remake or modernization of something or not see it at all. Cartoons might sound like a minor thing to complain about, but it's no wonder young people today are so deracinated when the same thing has been enacted on a culture-wide scale.
The contemporary obsession with licensed properties really isn't helping anything when it comes to helping people feel rooted in their history. In the old days, parents would get their kids toys based on all sorts of public-domain scenarios. They could be based on history, general concepts like animals or the military, or something more fantastic like myths or spacemen. They could even be more abstract in nature like Froebel gifts or Tinkertoy sets. Now they'll just get them Star Wars merchandise or whatever instead of toys that are better at fostering imagination or a sense of continuity with the past. These things should be instilled starting at a young age instead of letting young people fal
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