how historically accurate are writings and books on history?
i got this from a audio clip featuring dan brown..author of 'The DaVinci Code'
How do historians balance contrary accounts of the same event??
here is what someone said:
When we read and interpret, we are not interpreting the histortical events themselves, we are interpreting written accounts of those events. in essence we are interpreting peoples interpretations
Since the beginning of recorded time, history has always been written by the winners, by those societys and belief systems that have conquered and survived.
Despite the obvious bias in this accounting method, we still measure the historical accuracy of a given concept by examing how well it concurs with our existing historical record. i shud add that many historians now belive that engaging the historical accuracy of concepts. we shud ask ourself a far more deeper question..how historically accurate is history itself?
In most cases we may never know the answers, but that should not stop us asking the questions.
also: We can no longer afford to measure "truth" by the popular opinion of the media who have been hoodwinking the public throughout this 20th Century. The majority of people have only been exposed to the "censored" but "authorized" textbooks which simply print "the blanket of the truth" to maintain and manage the social, economic and political nature of the established order. We are now awakening to the awareness that history has been carefully "managed" with a concerted effort to discredit, reject adn eradicate any person who advocates any unpopular, "alternative" versions of history - whether it be regarding politcis, economics, religion, medicine, energy or any other topic.
how much false history is there? how much manipulated history?
The world is a big place and now more and ever there is enormous danger in believing we are infalluable,that our version of the truth is absolute and that everyone who does not think like we do is wrong and is a enemy.
This is humanitys trouble.
this is why when you see a conspiracy theory posted by me or that you have seen elsewhere..you dismiss it so so so easily beacuse you THINK its bullshit, whos told you that? you or someone else?
It’s fascinating to observe, as your mind expands and the cell door creaks open, how the issues and concerns that occupy our minds, screw us up, and give us a bad sense of self, simply don’t matter. We are just conditioned to think they matter and so we expend our energies and wind up our emotions worrying about things that others programme us to believe are important. Are we too fat? Are we too thin? Are we too tall? Are we too small? Are our breasts big enough? Are our willies big enough?
Are we losing the hair on our heads? Do we have too much hair on our
bodies? Are we wearing the latest uniform (sorry fashion) that someone
we have never met has decided is “in”? We are deluged by advertisers
and the television “programmes” funded by advertisers which tell us
how we should be, look, and feel. You’ve got a wrinkle on your face?
Oh, my dear, your life is over. It’s the end of the road. Unless, that is,
you buy this super-duper face oil named after somewhere that sounds
exotic. It will save your life. Hey, look at this curvy, sun-tanned, blonde
we paid vast sums to show her bum on a beach. Buy our oil and that
could be you.