Famous bloggers from history

From Paul Allen’s blog:

I believe the U.S. helps generates the most hatred for our nation and our way of life by by producing content that celebrates violence, sex, and wealth and broadcasting it without any restraint or sensitivity to societies all over the world (including poor nations and highly religious nations), thus creating both jealousy (for our prosperity) and hatred towards us for attacking the values that they hold most dear.

Okay, so what does this have to do with famous bloggers from history?

Well, one way to export a more favorable view of the United States and its original values is to proliferate the writings of all our greatest leaders and thinkers.

So Worldhistory.com is going to be recruiting bloggers who will each adopt a great historic figure and start blogging each day about what that person would say if he or she were alive today. We will start blogs for many of the founding fathers and early presidents, supreme court leaders, congressional leaders, as well as leading business figures, inventors, scientists, educators, and religious leaders.

Our bloggers won’t make stuff up. Instead, they will find current events or topics that are in the news, and then they will find actual quotes from the writings or speeches of the historic figure and try to find one or more statements that sheds light on the contemporary issue. And we won’t be limiting our history blogger network to American historical figures. Worldhistory.com is about world history, and the great ideas from thinkers and leaders all over the world are sorely needed to help us achieve balance, tolerance, and a sustainable future for our civilization.

Cool idea. And I agree — the U.S. peddles too much filth. And I also love history. :) You know, I’d like to blog as Benjamin Franklin — and I was sorely tempted for a minute or two there — but I don’t think I have time. ~sigh~

The U.S. does peddle too much filth.

But it wouldn’t if that filth wasn’t being watched.

Hollywood is a business. If no one buys the product, then the product changes or the business crashes. We are just as much to blame as Hollywood for our trash.

I feel a bit ashamed of that comment. I don’t mean to take a small point in a large article and make an issue out of it.

The bottom line is that our culture has so much more to offer than MTV, and I agree. I find it a fantastic idea, and I didn’t let that through in that negative comment. Didn’t mean to taint the style of the blog, Ben. Sorry about that.