I’m watching a program about recent history
It’s all stuff I’ve lived through
I’m disappointed
Re-runs suck, but it’s something more than that
It’s really getting me down
I dunno why
I guess I thought it would have extra stuff
I’m bored and antsy and regretful over my wasted time
I’m about to find my anger
When I realize there was one crucial thing I learned from that program
Basically
Historians studied my era very carefully
And they gathered evidence
And they analyzed that evidence
And then they thought about their analysis
And then they had it all peer reviewed
Or something like that
And then they made the program
I just watched it
And the thing I learned was that usually when movies are made based on history the movies might be good or bad as entertainment, but they’re likely to get the uniforms wrong
Maybe not all the way wrong
But certain details get all fucked up
But in the case of my era
Well
The actual era got the uniforms wrong
And the movies got ‘em right
And the historians baffled at this, but could not explain it
And so my era expresses a certain mystery
And so I am stuck with a certain frustration
That I got this important thing wrong in the actual living of my era
And those bullshit cornball movies got it right
Not an easy thing to learn from a program
But it’s good to know
In case I ever film a historical re-enactment
