Listening to history podcasts is depressing because you get to hear statements like “sir francis, who was a competent and bold leader respected by the public” and go “wow there is literally nobody alive now in my country I can think of that meets that description”
GirlKisser420, March 21, 2021, 05:05:49 pm
Take solace in the fact that most of those people were actually really shitty and we just don't really acknowledge it. I studied WWII three times in school before I quit history lessons at 14, and I was well into adulthood before learning that as well as being a brave soldier, a charismatic and determined leader, and an artist, Churchill was also racist enough to make all the other white dudes from the 1800s go "woah dude maybe dial it back a bit" and then never do anything about that. You don't want to envy those people, because the highly popular, successful leaders, also think things like "Indians should starve because they are a beastly people".
What I'm saying is that you're wrong about exactly why those podcasts are depressing.