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Murtaza Hussain
@mazmhussain
I enjoy reading history just for entertainment and for something to talk about and occasionally employ as a rhetorical tool in political debate. As I’ve mentioned before I have deep skepticism how much of recorded history is real.
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@highplains66
Maybe that can be looked upon as a feature as in people shouldn't take anything they learn about history too seriously. People may be more flexible that way which would be a positive.
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Whatever it is, it affects the present. People also debate (...) if the Bible is a real story, but no one can deny that understanding the world today requires at least some knowledge of what it says.
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Tokenized Human
@tokenizedhuman
History, Lister, is written by the winners. How do we know that Oates went out for this legendary walk? From the only surviving document: Scott's diary. And he's hardly likely to have written down, "February the First, bludgeoned Oates to death while he slept, then scoffed him along with the last packet of instant mash." How's that going to look when he gets rescued, eh? No, much better to say, "Oates made the supreme sacrifice," while you're dabbing up his gravy with the last piece of crusty bread.
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Derek
@badadvicehq
I share that skepticism as I may have mentioned earlier too. But I think it'd be better now since history is more 'decentralized'. History has to be the most interesting subject, especially because it affects the present and sometimes future
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@thumbsup.eth
This is my perspective too. Knowing what we know about how much bias shapes narrative, and how limited the scope of available information was to employ for fact-checking, I’m inclined to believe that most of the “history” is coloured with misinformation in service of glorifying the preferred outcomes of the storyteller.
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@shazow.eth
My fav quip on this: https://x.com/shazow/status/1411085087005839362 We can't even agree on how to interpret current events, how can we possibly have consensus on long past events.
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@tomu.eth
> I’ve mentioned before I have deep skepticism how much of recorded history is real can you elaborate on this? what type of information/manuscripts do you think were distinct from their reality?
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Vanessa Williams
@fridgebuzz
I enjoy reading it, too. Though always keeping in mind that history is very selective. The doings of Kings & Emperors tell us nothing about how the other 99.99999% of people were affected by changing circumstances. Also, “history is written by the winners”, so it’s always biased.
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