The Mandela Effect - Cultural Angst in the Information Age - YouTube

The Mandela Effect - Cultural Angst in the Information Age - YouTube: History ought not to be such a subjective thing. One problem is that that postmodernists theorists in academia have taught students that it is a virtue to treat history as a totally subjective thing (rather than realizing that there is subjectivity involved in telling historical narratives, but that there is a lot that goes way beyond what is personal or "all about me"). I guess at their highest level of sophistication, postmodernists were making a similar critique to that made in this video, which is that we ought to be aware of how much we are capable of being deluded. But postmodernism also fetishized an ahistorical perspective, which means that a couple of generations of students totally lost touch with any historical perspective, and did not develop the mindset or intellectual rigour to understand it. I notice that on my own YouTube channel, people tend to "like" the psychological analyses I do, but when I combine these with a strong element of historical commentary, I draw more-or-less a blank. But psychology and history are combined, and we cannot understand why we live in such a narcissistic society unless we bring the two together.

It's like (what I have heard) that kittens, when they are growing up, will not learn to perceive horizontal lines unless they are exposed to them in the maturation process. If they are denied such exposure, they will have a very diminished concept of height. In the same way, the contemporary person has a completely diminished concept of history and how much our historical time changes us. It's like they are living in two dimensions, as cardboard cutouts. You try to explain change and social conditioning to them, and they can only repeat, "but how things are now is the way they have always been" (even whilst I am telling them differently).
If you can't perceive historical forces, you also can't perceive anything other than the individual, seemingly in isolation. It's like perceiving someone being acted upon by a narc., but not being able to perceive the narc., or anything significant within the environment as a whole that would make the victim act as they are doing. In the absence of a broader meaning and explanatory context, you simply have to shrug and say, "Well, some people are born weak."
Alternatively one could learn about history.