Proof that we have dumbed down

[callmemadam]

This morning, Amazon offered me AJP Taylor’s How Wars Begin for 99p. The two books in the set are transcripts of lectures he gave on television from 1977. You can watch some of these on YouTube, I found. A talking head, lecturing on history for half an hour with no autocue, props or film clips. Can you imagine this now? Of course not; far too élitist. This is depressing.

Comments

[gwendraith]

It sounds riveting, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz ;) I expect the books might be more palatable.

[callmemadam]

Heh!