Picnic at Plymouth Rock

When I was young, I recall a family conversation about Thanksgiving in which Plymouth Rock was mentioned and one of my brothers said it had to be in Detroit ‘cuz that’s where Plymouth cars are made. He was in junior high school at the time.

It would have been cute if he was in 3rd grade. I’m rock-solid certain that the state of our knowledge about our own history has not improved.

Sadly, a place most lacking is about the great inventors and industrialists of the gilded age who literally made America from farmland into a giant of innovation, industry, rising prosperity and opportunity, and world power....and then became great, active philanthropists without whom universities, libraries, and hospitals would not have been endowed.

These incredible heroes are being recast as villains by revisionist, anti-capitalism history. Not only do most people, notably including high school and college kids, know little about history – what they do know is factually, wildly incorrect.

This brings me to a pet peeve about entrepreneurs and marketers: I have often sat with entrepreneurs and corporate CEOs stunningly ignorant of and disinterested in the roots, the G.O.A.T.s, the ‘eternal truths’ of what they are doing…

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