History.

What does this make you think of?

Swords, armor, castles, cannons, trenches, tanks, tanks?

Or perhaps it makes you think of bravery, courage, resistance.

We shall fight on the beaches and in the streets.

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Mondays at nine on National Geographic. To trace the history of this briefly, I'll go back to 1997 to an example that I think many of us are familiar with now,

which is there were two films from Hollywood that were made about Tibet that cast Tibet in a very

sympathetic light casting Tibet as a victim of Chinese military aggression.

Seven years in Tibet with Brad Pitt and Kundun by Martin's

Crusadesi film for Disney. Both of those production studios, so Columbia TriStar

in Disney, were then immediately shut out of the Chinese market.

And that was like an earthquake across Hollywood. And in the past

26 years there has been not one, not one major Hollywood film that has crossed DCP red lines at all.

And now the good fight with Yasha Monk. Here is another installment of the contents of my new book, of the identity trap, a story of ideas and power in our time as ever pleased to consider reading a long week by week as I summarize these chapters in my own words.

I have been trying to explain how the identity synthesis could escape

campus, how it could go mainstream over the course of the last decade. This is

something to do with the way in which a popularized form of the identity

synthesis started to form on social media and enter newspapers like the New York Times

in the Washington Post. It has something to do with a short march through the institutions in which students steeped in these ideas on campus, started to take jobs in corporations and nonprofit institutions and pressure their employers

to pay heed to their ideas.

But the final turning point came ironically in the form of Donald Trump's victory in 2016.

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