Blog 26: Special 4: Happy Labor Day

Hello everypony, everyone and creature alike. Happy Labor Day. Remember to thank those who fought for workers rights and to thank those who are working in the work force now. Tell and give them a thank you on your way out, give them a little boost of confidence in their day. Have a little history buff: https://www.history.com/topics/holidays/labor-day-1
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As a kid growing up, when I thought of Labor Day, I thought about births and military honors, when I went to school that all changed on how I viewed it. What was your way of thinking about it, before something or someone told you?

Comments

[Darkevony]

I had a great teacher in my freshman year in highschool who knew I loved history. Being the pessimist he was, whenever we hung out during the idle moments of the school, he wanted to teach me real history.

I learned about debt peonage, labor day, and all sorts of things about corporations/organizations abusing the law (like in mining towns) that way. It really makes a kid look at history from that point onwards in a different way. I got to see history unadulterated unlike most other kids my age at the time. I got to see the true face of the U.S, without the tightly constricted, bastardized, and mythicized narrative taught to us in School by looking up stuff myself.

Before then, I probably thought the same as any kid my age. "History is pretty boring, since it's just names, times, and places."

I still think I got a lot of whiplash from learning a lot of that stuff all at once at such an impressionable age. Got red-pilled pretty hard. But like any redpill, I don't regret taking it.

Nowadays, my unhealthy vice is watching late night hosts like Jon Stewert. (Like the John Oliver show, etc). To add to the extra lay of morbidity, I also love to hear podcasts like Hardcore History by Dan Carlin. I don't make it a point to be political, but I do love to learn some history. Even if it hurts the empath in me.