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Perish the thought that someone might be able to conciously try to reconstruct the past as properly as possible.
Meh, there will always be a certain amount of bias, because some parts of history will always be dependent on interpretation/standpoint no matter how much info you have. Vigorous debates like that are precisely what keeps the past alive, imho.
History is written by the victor. There are some things -- many things, probably -- that we'll never know the actual truth about. But the main point here is that historians aren't particularly known for being unbiased. Look at the 19th century glorification of the Middle Ages, and then the modern "dark and gritty" interpretation, both being stupid extremes that are often whole-heartedly adhered to.
For another example, we believed that the non-Roman societies of European Classical Antiquity were savages for the longest time until some bright sparks played with the idea that they weren't, and that the same kind of assumptions and bias are what inform a large part of modern discrimination. So we can now tell that the Romans did some cool stuff and everything, but weren't in fact paragons of civilisation -- in fact, they were pretty discriminatory.
The sheer degree to which historians can get things wrong on the basis of assumption and personal bias is astounding, and there's no doubt there are still things we believe about the past entirely informed by modern biases.
Speaking of dumb things, I just watched Rubber. I don't quite know how to feel about it, but a lot of it was really boring, and I don't think it was as clever as it thought it was.
I know
they are sour and caustic
there are two u's
YES
Tea is decent. In fact, even unsweetened tea is nice sometimes, and strangely-sweetened tea can become totally stupid and absurd.
Coffee, however, is just a bitter caffeine delivery vehicle. There are better alternatives.
I love the taste of water, and don't like the taste of coke.
I also drink a shitload of water.
I boil the darn shit and then leave it to cool.
Tea may be.
Well, by "cola" I'm specifically referring to the Coca-Cola/Pepsi sort of drink. Basically, a very acidic, caramel-colored, caffeine-containing, carbonated (i.e. "sparkling") drink.
"Soft drinks" here refer to just any carbonated beverages, which are also sometimes called "soda" or "pop".
drink Mountain Dew and Dr Pepper instead
mountain pee is awesomely sweet and dr pepper is cherry flavored
they're both better than drinking cans of acid
root beer is okay
THANK YOU
and Dr Pepper is the second-best
This just in: Bastion is the main character of the world, but Nohaynicklibre is its god.
I am not keen on the idea that because history has been written by the victor for as humans have recorded history, it is necessarily the truth in a society that preaches freedom of speech and allows for the free transit of information coming from many sources, which while sometimes contradictory, allow for a grander view of the picture. To consider that history as a discipline is going to remain unchanged as society changes feels backswards to me or at least, pessimistic.
We can no longer be buddies. >
Clockwork: That was cute and also that cop sucks at helping kids with math.
I just realized the uselessness of gigantposting a reply to a transient conversation.
In essence, history as a discipline hasn't changed much over the millennia. It's still prone to propaganda and very personal interpretation, and we still often only get things from particular cherry-picked sources. And while history as a discipline has become more honest and objective, particularly over the course of the 20th century, that means nothing if its means of expression are still biased or have an agenda. What most people get is a form of popular history filtered through a number of different storytellers and mediums.
Take the Cold War, for instance. Most people today still look at it through the auspice of ideological conflict between capitalism and communism, when the truth is that both sides were using similar economic frameworks. Only Latin America has an argument for adherence to actual communist or socialist ideals, but that Latin American optimism was still a tool of Soviet manipulations. Today, only Cuba still stands as a legitimately socialist state.
A change in historical understanding doesn't just depend on historians and institutions of education, but the way information is presented to the public at large. The old Cold War propaganda is still too useful for US political interests to actually give up, and even if the US tried to institute a widespread attempt at re-education on the era, plenty of people stuck in their ways with political ideals based on that conflict would refuse to accept it. Any initiative to ensure that history is understood more objectively is subject to interception by various forms of media, various ideologies, politics and regular, civilian-grade bias. It's a battle that can't be won without the cooperation of multiple outlets, but incorrect history makes too much money for this to change any time soon.
Internet connection is being absurdly slow -_-
That awkward moment when, two months ago, I traded away a Magic card that's worth up to $100 now. (Foil Misty Rainforest)
All Nines: If it's any consolation, it was probably worth about the same two months ago.
what the hell kinda consolation is that >:[
On the plus side, I won five games in a row with Goblins, using the Dragon Shields that just came in.
Hell yeah, finally installed Illustrator on my current computer. One less reason to have to drag out the shitty old laptop.
Really? Huh. I would've thought they would've jumped right before RTR was released and all those shocklands came back.
Keep in mind the formats where fetches are legal already had shcocklands.
So I ended up watching Revenge in a sick daze.
Main plot would be interesting if they bothered to mention what the protagonist was up to at least once in this episode. Also, way too many sideplots.
And it's Ta-keda, not Ta-kay-da, the guy's right there pronouncing it right, show some respect.
Fair enough, but there's also the getting thrown out of the window part.
OK, maybe everyone else's treatment of Ralph was genuinely unwarranted. But there's still the fact that Hotel Manager Dude, who was the biggest jerk to Ralph, gets thrown out of the goddamn window every time.
It's hard to respect a dude whose job it is to throw you out of buildings is my point.
So my favorite musician ever is back now. I don't know for how long or whatever*, but Arceus dangit Sakura Nagashi is the best song of the year.
That's it. I can die happy now.
*Apparently it's for one single since she's still on hiatus and she's a really big EVA fan so she'd never pass theme song performance up.
They need to make 4.0 now.
I only had one class again, today. My Psych teacher got sick. -shrug-
it is 4AM and i am not tired
i think i am becoming nocturnal
better not become a stalker of the night nova
because i will hunt you down
i mean it
you will try
you will fail