I’m not even half way through Howard Zinn’s a Peoples History of America and it’s the most depressing book I’ve ever gotten into. The continuous nature of rich & powerful elites destroying, murdering, and exploiting those that aren’t them as well as wielding the state and the law in their pillage is so upsetting. It’s not even cyclical in nature because it’s never been an ebb or flow against the tide. And in learning this the book also mentions why it’s never taught to you this way. That it’s beneficial to the system to give that illusion of hope and progress. It’s huge. And I’m doing the audiobook and it’s still huge.
I didn’t think it possible for me to be more cynical. But here we are.