I hope my trip to Russia doesn't get cancelled. They just cancelled the trip to London today, and it was going to take place over spring break.

fly as hale wrote:
I know everything there is to know about the ship and the movie. I should be a certified Titanic historian. And a Marilyn Monroe historian too, now that I think of it.
CriminallyVu1gar wrote:
I probably could on Ty Cobb.
I could be a historian on three different people, that I can think of off the top of my head. Holy cow, I know everything.

One of them's just a taaaad bit frustrating because it's like swimming upstream knowing so much because of all the idiotic comments made about the person by the average child in my generation (and not in my generation, but it's the worst in mine I think).

Caroline can probably relate to that, perhaps, because I've heard a lot of harsh comments about Marilyn Monroe that were just sad. There are a
lot of people out there that don't bother putting in any research whatsoever before condemning a person of just about anything you could ever imagine. That is mind-boggling to me.

People may not always be gullible when it comes to facts if they're not interacting with a smooth talker, but when it comes to other people, they're absolute idiots.
There are some specific historical periods, too, but I hesitate to say that because I don't know quite enough about the sociological and cultural shifts leading up to them to actually write a book, probably. I'm planning on writing my senior thesis on one of them. I've found that most people are ignorant concerning one of them in particular, as well, and it's one that will really influence opinions in other areas, depending on what a person believes about it. It's kind of sad.
I'm always reading books on sociology and culture and prejudice and the arts and anthropology and psychology and philosophy and all sorts of things... Writing a book that ties all of it together by looking at a specific period in time and maybe a specific person or two from that time period would be amazing. That would be a lifetime's work, though, and I doubt I'd ever have the time considering what I want to do with my life. I would really love to do that, though. Maybe a little research here and there after I graduate. I don't know. I'm just so interested in all that stuff.