Matt McKeon
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During quarantine time I'd like to think I caught up on the classics. However I didn't. I did see "Civil War Hoax" on Amazon Prime, a "mockamentary" about people who believe the Civil War didn't actually happen. One guy thinks its aliens, another that its a coverup that the French and Indian Wars never ended, and my favorite, the war was an elaborate fiction created by guys who just needed an excuse to get out of the house and drink with their buddies, "A four year frat party," exclaims one "historian"
It goes on far longer than it is funny, like an SNL sketch that lasts an hour. And a couple of parts aren't funny at all. Its ends with a surprisingly sincere plea to abandon comforting myth for history.
It goes on far longer than it is funny, like an SNL sketch that lasts an hour. And a couple of parts aren't funny at all. Its ends with a surprisingly sincere plea to abandon comforting myth for history.