HISB41H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Philip Rieff
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No state is a moral entity, none are holier than thou, whatever is said for them: that is one thing we teachers must know. philip rieff. Teachers only discuss good parts of their country"s history instead of the bad things. We do not all fit together as identical pieces of some great legion; our myriad differences make the whole of our society more resilient and durable, also richer and more dynamic. To put it differently, any historical narrative is a particular bundle of silences, the result of a unique process, and the operation required to deconstruct these silences will vary accordingly. The eurcentric view of canadian history is a bit like the 1950s science fiction movie the blob, but told from the blob"s point of view. Like the gelatinous substance of the movie, the blob of. European resettlement grows from a few tiny outposts to a gigantic entity absorbing everything in its path.
