Ack. And what's even worse is that academic historians themselves are partially to blame for this tripe. Completely impenetrable peer-reviewed articles in irrelevant journals create a tiny community of elitist hacks who couldn't write a decent narrative to save their lives. And this isn't physics we're talking about, either. It's *the story of ourselves*. How are historians capable of making this stuff so fucking boring that hardly anyone reads it? No wonder it's so easily hijacked by this idiot. MEH.