At times History can be pretty meaningless, it is pretty one sided and at times very much one dimensional. Look at WW2, what does the general population know of WW2, how many people walking and talking today know what started WW2? The history is not that countries lost, it is that people lost. Does History today really teach that Germany Lost, that Italy lost, that China and Japan lost? That even Russia lost? Not really it teaches that Hitler Lost, Mussolini, Stalin, Tojo, Mao-Tse-Tung. They lost not their countries. Their countries as far as I know do not even teach the WHY of WW2, of why they fought and what they fought for.
Trump, Q-anon, and corona are all just going to be tiny little footnotes in the history books. Why...simple..most people do not care about the past or the future and are only living for the moment, because we are a selfish species.
it's quite depressing how little people are engaged with really understanding history.
Life in the present would be so much better if that were the case.
Oh hum.... what ya gonna do?
Trump, Q-anon, and corona are all just going to be tiny little footnotes in the history books.
IF this is the spark leading to some big changes, I disagree.
It will be remembered.
(of course, 'footnotes in history covers a large span of time, so yes, inevitably so).
Do you remember Bill Clinton and his midnight basketball? or the Bill Clinton Curfew support? People think the media is only recently corrupted, it has been corrupt for a long time where it comes to reporting the news and questioning the actions of those in charge.
In 20 years no one will even know Q-anon existed, just my view of the state of current events becoming history.
I think the nature of changing media - from 'now' (internet archvies etc.) may alter the way 'recent history' is seen - less memory holing.
Less control by the previous gatekeepers of information.