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Podcast: Capability Amplifier
Episode: Presentism; Understanding History
Description: What is “Presentism?” It’s defined as: uncritical adherence to present-day attitudes, especially the tendency to interpret past events in terms of modern values and concepts.Let’s put it in terms that might be easier to understand in 2021.Today there is a general lack of understanding of history and geography.Generation Z has been raised with their phones in their hands so history for them (unless it was forced on them by school) is based on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and Snapchat.Mike knows thi...