Present Shock, Lulled to Sleep

I’m not sure if it is age, or seeing some of the lessons in classrooms past. It impresses me that some of my high school and college history classes went against modern perception, telling accounts factually without offering a slant or personal viewpoint in lecture.

In recent time, I’ve seen some of the lessons from classrooms past refute or corroborate current issues.

A few decades ago, a book was written that has been included in various sociology classes since. The book came out about the same time science fiction stories had characters using what now would be called a flip phone,...