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we rewrite history in our minds every day. every book you read has a different take on what happened, and those books were almost all written by people who weren't there, just heard from others who heard it from others who.... ya, it's like a giant game of telephone.
think about any given event in your past. is there anything at all that you are absolutely one hundred percent sure was exactly as you remember it?
Not only that, but we are missing huge pieces of history. the only things that are taught in school are the events that some petty bureaucrat sitting in a cubicle somewhere thought were significant enough to add to the curriculum.
AS far as I can tell, (which isn't very far) it's the most important stuff that isn't recorded. the concepts, the ideas, what that person was feeling and why and what that made him do is whats needed, not when he did it,and the birth and death dates of everone present at thats why the same mistakes are made again and again. the same wars are fought, the same warning signs are ignored. ya we know it happened before, but how many people actually learned and talked about WHY?
what prompted this you might ask? I was listening to the news, and there was a story about a fairly big newspaper in the States that has just printed an apology for totally ignoring the huge peace rally the time.
that happened like thirty five years before. the people who owned the newspaper at the time thought it would be upsetting for people, so simply pretended it wasn't happening.
now, that isn't a huge problem at the time, everyone knew what was going on, perhaps they were glad not to have to read about it as well, but what if twenty years from now that newspaper is used as a record of what was happening at the time? and if the media will lie or at least blind themselves to the huge things, what tiny events happen every day that are judged unfit for mass consumption?
think about any given event in your past. is there anything at all that you are absolutely one hundred percent sure was exactly as you remember it?
Not only that, but we are missing huge pieces of history. the only things that are taught in school are the events that some petty bureaucrat sitting in a cubicle somewhere thought were significant enough to add to the curriculum.
AS far as I can tell, (which isn't very far) it's the most important stuff that isn't recorded. the concepts, the ideas, what that person was feeling and why and what that made him do is whats needed, not when he did it,and the birth and death dates of everone present at thats why the same mistakes are made again and again. the same wars are fought, the same warning signs are ignored. ya we know it happened before, but how many people actually learned and talked about WHY?
what prompted this you might ask? I was listening to the news, and there was a story about a fairly big newspaper in the States that has just printed an apology for totally ignoring the huge peace rally the time.
that happened like thirty five years before. the people who owned the newspaper at the time thought it would be upsetting for people, so simply pretended it wasn't happening.
now, that isn't a huge problem at the time, everyone knew what was going on, perhaps they were glad not to have to read about it as well, but what if twenty years from now that newspaper is used as a record of what was happening at the time? and if the media will lie or at least blind themselves to the huge things, what tiny events happen every day that are judged unfit for mass consumption?