I’ll add another:

When I realized that the “politics leads everything in history and the important events were due to kings, czars, militaries, and presidents.” Only to learn the reality is that all politics is downstream of economic incentives and the technological and even natural environment.

That which kind or queen did or said what and won or lost which war was largely irrelevant to the fact that gun powder had been invented and the very landscape of what is possible in politics and the economics of violence had shifted wildly and everything was going to change including the very architecture of political power.

Public schools have this completely backward, and I think it’s because a political education system is inherently obsessed with the political power ideology. nostr:note1w5y04llkp422tkzcdz32annjqw29g3yq7wf48s6cmfej53a5q5rq247caa