Reply #27: I suspect you still haven't read my post

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which I linked explicitly in your thread so that we could engage in fruitful discussion. You seem to prefer yelling about something or other. That's fine. It's your right.

I never mentioned deconstruction, which Foucault wanted nothing to do with in any case (I learned that as an undergraduate in the US; my undergraduates in the US learn it as well). Neither Derrida nor Foucault are read widely by undergraduates in any country if those undergraduates happen to be outside the humanities, although there has been increasing work on Foucault in management studies, though I suspect that this work doesn't filter down to the undergraduate level.

Your ranting about willful ignorance is, further, growing increasingly tedious, since you have yet to demonstrate that people aren't aware that Thermopylae was a real event (the only specific example you provided explicitly noted that it WAS), or that its reality has any bearing on a political reading of the film as allegory. Moreover, you have yet to demonstrate in any rigorously historical way even your basic assertion, that US is any more "willfully ignorant" of history than it ever was, or than other cultures are. So, your first challenge is to provide any evidence whatsoever for your assertions. You have yet to do even that. I'll deal with your rant when you've demonstrated that it has even the minimal substance.