No, no, I fully agree. I am a bit more distanced from it, but that's part of what weirds me out--the fact that people seem either willfully or unwillfully oblivious to some of the problems with the culture.
I also am not a particular family history nut. I had some kinda cool ancestors and some highly unpleasant ones, but I have never quite bothered to put together what real bearing distant ancestors have on ME. Family history is one thing, but pride OR shame just don't seem like a big hairy deal now that there's not a lot to be done to fix the past. I worry more about the future.
Also, I absolutely HATED Gone With The Wind because it's basically a bunch of people whining "Oh, noes, our farm suffers because we have no one here anymore to pick the cotton!" and I think "YES, LIFE SURE IS HARD, ISN'T IT?"
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I also am not a particular family history nut. I had some kinda cool ancestors and some highly unpleasant ones, but I have never quite bothered to put together what real bearing distant ancestors have on ME. Family history is one thing, but pride OR shame just don't seem like a big hairy deal now that there's not a lot to be done to fix the past. I worry more about the future.
Also, I absolutely HATED Gone With The Wind because it's basically a bunch of people whining "Oh, noes, our farm suffers because we have no one here anymore to pick the cotton!" and I think "YES, LIFE SURE IS HARD, ISN'T IT?"