There Needs to be a Ken Burns Documentary About…Ken Burns?

…I get it, the Ken Burns/PBS Orthodoxy has grown into a giant franchise on the order of Walt Disney, together creating their own adjectives such as “Burnsian” and “Disneyfied”. But in the wake of the Burns-treatment, there is some sanctimonious fallout and distortion of truth. If you asked Ken Burns himself, he’d probably say “Whatever, why don’t you make your own documentary”, so I’m now asking for an impartial “60 Minutes” treatment on Burns to set the record straight. 100 years from now, will there be a documentary about Ken Burns stating “Though he tried to tell the story of the true America beginning in the 1980s, he ended up accidentally amplifying the “Lost Cause” movement* while guilt-shaming America into submission to Chinese Totalitarianism”?

The Ken Burnsian orthodoxy has served us well in teaching “true” American history (and funding many a PBS telethon). But is it time to investigate the perceptional bias of…(gasp) Ken Burns?

Naturally, Ken Burns deserves historic credit for mostly telling the story of America through the eyes of African Americans and other rather disenfranchised elements, who don’t get enough credit for building America. Since African-Americans are front and center in an integration experiment that is essentially the first of its kind in the history of the world (humanity previous to us basically said “you’re different…get lost!”), this story needs to be told. In fact, if Burn’s domain is only America, some Burnsian-clones need to be provided to tell the story of the world at large. A few candidates…