The not world

I’m just inventing a term here because I don’t know if someone else has already come up with these thoughts and given it a name. Over the past several years, I’ve been educating myself on some very useful matters: where my food comes from, peak oil, American history, monetary policies of the U.S., societal issues such as race relations, feminism, etc. I happen to like American history because its fairly new, and the effects of many events are still affecting people today. Indian history is very exciting and everything, but I started learning about it in third grade about what stuff was like in the B.C. era. Can you imagine the dates to keep track of? The battles that were fought? Which dynasty screwed over some other random dynasty? Lineage going back over a thousand years? In a nutshell I hated history because it was soo tedious and lengthy. But U.S. history is small and tiny and, learning about 10 key facts will make one seem like a genius in mixed company. ...