Wayne Parham Messages: 18783 Registered: January 2001
Illuminati (33rd Degree)
For the past few nights, I've been watching "The Men Who Built America" on Amazon Prime. It's a one-season mini-series documentary about industrialization after around 1865. History Channel did it in 2012, but I missed it until now.
I love this kind of stuff - It's very interesting to me. I always found myself having a love/hate thing for the powerful individuals and companies around 1900. This series reminded me why.
Sometimes I get bent out of shape with today's politics. Sometimes modern corporate and political leaders seem so greedy and biased. And they can be, no doubt. But it's nothing like it was in 1900.
Mostly, my interest was always the Edison/Tesla thing. I have been familiar with the dynamics of Edison/Morgan versus Tesla/Westinghouse since I was a teenager. They're electronics guys, so I felt the Tesla/Edison arguments to be in my wheelhouse. But I only knew a little about Vanderbilt, Rockefeller and Carnegie. This series showed me more about the dynamics between these men and how they affected America and the world.
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