Historians are the answer, but are they really the problem?

It took me a while to stew over this and I just kept getting more agitated, so I decided to put in my 2 cents.

In the below Guardian article "Our world is changing.  It's time for historians to explain why?", there are points to make because we can always do better, but I will tell you why it's just too damn easy to place blame in the wrong place, even if it is well intended.
Guardian Article

First and foremost, the past 10-20 years have seen an explosion not only in historical and biographical non-fiction, but new fields emerging that merge history, political science, and the humanities.  Publications are really putting out enormous easy to grasp scholarly work.  Amazing steps forward!  Scholars from many different areas are collaborating and appearing on panels discussing current events.  Turn on C-Span3 on the weekend and you will be privy to some of the most exciting books and research happening today for free without leaving your home.

Historians are getting much more exposure outside academia than every before, in my opinion.  Not only that, they are toning down the scholarly gibber gabber to be more accessible to the public.  They're engaging across many other disciplines.  It's much easier to devour a non-fiction tome of 5 lbs (I still buy and check out books that you can hold) without drool escaping your weak, muscular, orbicularis😅😜...sorry, I couldn't help myself.

I'm sorry, but I cannot disagree with this article more.  I have an obsession with history, especially any american history pre-1900 with an emphasis on abolition, slavery, and suffrage (I used to limit myself to pre -1850, but scholars started moving away from Civil War battles dissected ad nauseum, and onto great substance in the field, and here I am with a voracious appetite with an unending list of books to devour.  You can't be interested in History right now and not feel like you've hit the mother load.  Libraries, on-line, EVERYWHERE there is an explosion of interest in the past.  If you don't have a computer, libraries often do, and we need to talk more about how to preserve these free institutions of learning more than ever.  We need to support historians while the right leaning leaders are trying to abolish it.  Why?  Because an educated population won't let you lie and manipulate so easily.  Blind Faith is their motto.  Education is their poison.  You will see countless people ignoring what's right before their eyes because of Blind Faith. This blindness makes them feel so warm and protected while their being scammed.  Unfortunately, we all are suffering because of this delusion.

I went off here, because it's important to keep our eyes on the prize and support those who really make a difference in our understanding of the world, and most importantly the past with all of it's difficult grays. THAT is our current batch of historians and I could not be more proud of everything they are doing with their countless hours of research and writing. It's a huge sacrifice that we need to acknowledge and support.

"Historians are skilled in building and interpreting varied narratives dealing with change over time. Yet still too many are reluctant to attempt comparison of any kind between past phenomena and contemporary concerns. Far from being irreconcilable opposites, the past and future should be viewed as two sides of the same coin"

Cormac Shine, below is a link to one of the finest conferences I've ever been to so far in my life. It's focus was on exactly what you complain doesn't happen. And you know what, it was free to the public, and it is currently free to view every lecture on-line for free. This is happening everywhere, not just at Yale. All you have to do is a little research😙

https://glc.yale.edu/Events/Conferences/2017-annual-conference