Right! I discovered now that its actually easy to find if I had used the index and looked for “Great Depression”… Silly me…
Thanks Aristippus!
Which, if you look at the stats, they did not. G/S was more or less unnecessary.
I think that’s one of the main corrupting factors (and goals) of state education; they teach particular interpretations of history as indisputable fact. Anyone who questions those conclusions is told to “go back to school”. The ideas Mises presents in “Theory and History” are some of the most important I’ve learned with respect to understanding society and acquiring knowledge in general.
Indeed - he who controls the past controls the future. Which is why one of the first moves made by our current banker-oligarchy when it was nascent in the early 20th century was to take control of the American Historical Association and alter the curriculum and teaching methods…this was something uncovered in the Reese Committee Hearings on the tax-exempt foundations…the Ford Foundation in this case, I believe. And of course per “The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America” by Charlotte Iserbyt, public education in America was from the very beginning about conditioning obedient/useful citizens, not about education, and was pushed by the same interests, via the same foundations - in general, the Rockefeller Foundation and its offspring dominated the movement toward public education.
Anyone interested in the subject absolutely must read “The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America.” It is not half-baked conspiracy theory, it’s several hundred pages of direct quotes from historical documents with complete citations - and they speak for themselves. There’s really no rational basis for denying the thesis of the book, which is what I said above - namely, that public education is about conditioning obedient/useful citizens for a socialistic society, not educating people, and that it was foisted on us by a galaxy of foundations ultimately controlled by that handful of bankers we keep running into everywhere we go.
…them be the facts - pardon my grammar, went to public school doncha know…