Mystic Chords Of Memory

 

Is the book Mystic Chords of Memory overrated? I decided to check it out since John R Adams and Chris Kendall hyped it up so much 2 years ago on Hoax Busters Call and Tim Kelly's Our Interesting Times Podcast. Of course we all know about Tim Kelly being a Cartoonist and Policy Adivisor:

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Back to MCOM. Well first of all it's over 850 pages which is real tough when your reading Michael Kammen. This is because this guy goes overboard with having sections of the book containing introductions and concluding sections. Also there is over 100 pages of notes. Kammen goes nuts in this book by sourcing almost every paragraph in the book. So you're constantly turning to the chapter notes in the back of the book.

Basically this book covers American History as propagated from 1700s through 1990s to the masses or if you read between the lines, it's basically telling you how the profane were kept ignorant through the propagation of our alleged American History. The book goes over how the Rockefellers and Ford Family were involved in helping finance Historical Sites to visit which kept profane Americans caring about history of the country that is probably filled with lots of lies which they are better off not knowing and putting their energy towards. What you can take away from the book is the massive effort by the wealthy elite and American government over hundreds of years to make sure the profane American gave a shit about American History. Keep their minds and energies towards a created historical narrative of wars, nationalism and presidents/leaders. Whether it was indoor/outdoor museums dedicated to the Revolutionary War, Civil War, President's boyhood homes, alleged battlefields, preservation efforts for "historical" sites, you come away with how much the United States citizens are in a fog because they've been engineered to believe in a history that is nothing but lies but because Museums says it's real, therefore they have to care about it.

Most state libraries should have this book so you can get it for free if ask your local library to do an inter-library loan. Be prepared for getting annoyed with Michael Kammen and his Nazi like citation after each paragraph. If you read it through the lens of this is how the American masses got engineered then you can have an appreciation for the book giving you some truth nuggets. Michael Kammen isn't conspiratorial at all and has no skepticism of the government. He is a totally willing shill for the establishment, so don't expect anything of a controlled opposition nature from Kammen. He is all for the status quo and enabling it. As disappointing as that can be, Kammen still can show you in this book how American History has to be constantly reinforced through propaganda mediums of empty battlefields, countless museums and keeping people's minds in fixated that this country is real and the Native Americans never had a history because there is nothing to show for it like America has.

The one take away for me in this book is how there was an goal from the American government and the wealthy elites to make sure the masses gave a shit about America because if there weren't efforts like museum and empty battlefields preserved, then I'm pretty sure people in this country wouldn't have given a flying fuck about what our alleged history was.