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history is connected. in so many ways, across so many different spheres of life--entertainment, politics, architecture, culinary practice.

historical events and connections do not exist in isolation with each other, especially not within the same country. and sometimes that leads you to fascinating trends about understanding a place's development and history and what broader contexts it ties into.

it's really cool to be honest. watching defunctland reminds me why i used to be a really big history buff way back when. everything's connected.


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I discovered defunctland recently and I think that's my main takeaway too. I'm not a big theme park fan, Chile in general is not big on theme parks, but it is a culture that I watch from afar with fascination, and the more I watch his videos the more I learn about how it all is shaped by so many unique forces in history, economics, politics and such. It's a very unique way to understand how those systems impact us.

I guess that's also why my wife loves stuff like Tasting History: it shows the ways that history and culture intersect via the framing device of food, which is both an universal experience and always uniquely local and transient.

right? like i watched the jim henson miniseries and of all people michael eisner being involved in some degree of the muppets' success is fascinating to consider, as well as the continued throughline that it creates in underscoring eisner's whole Deal by the time he became disney president.

and even looking beyond eisner, the kid cities stuff really got me hooked. i never would've imagined that La Ciudad de los Niños coming into being so many years ago was the reason that Wannado City-- a name I remember very vividly from growing up in South Florida--even existed later on. It's truly amazing.