After a long pause...
The topic of the next debate will be about recorded history...
It has often been said that "History is written by the victor."
That phrase is meant to convey that among those things that every victorious human endeavor includes is the crafting of a log, an accounting of what has passed.
Because such transitions are usually marked by a conflict or contention, what is "now new" requires affirmation... To that end, all the information regarding the ascent of the victorious is gathered and rendered into a narrative which the future will hold as "history."
Often, truth suffers when the victorious recast the past into terms which benefit a new order. Further, as smaller, weaker people become thrust into power, they virtue signal by taking a stab at the departing order, sometimes outright demonizing everything having to do with those who were (or that which was) "defeated."
We have, in our limited time as a civilization, undergone many 'chapters' in the book of history. Each with many 'pages' and many many sections. Historians attempt to 'correlate' those things which repeat, crystalizing what lessons we have learned, noting those things that are remarkably salient and distinct, and often expressing the passage of time in terms of where we were.
Among those things we "knew" are those facts which stood up to a point, and then fell to "new" knowledge... and then there were those things known, that 'victors' labor to 'refuse.'
There are a couple of things 'victors' and their agents have done to some knowledge of history... such as it's complete erasure, its subtle obfuscation, and ultimate mischaracterization.
Signs and portents of the activity are easily deduced. And some 'changes" or 'denials' about history are well camouflaged... What can be done? Who can be assigned to restore historical reality? Who will "embrace" the false past?
The topic of the next debate will be about recorded history...
It has often been said that "History is written by the victor."
That phrase is meant to convey that among those things that every victorious human endeavor includes is the crafting of a log, an accounting of what has passed.
Because such transitions are usually marked by a conflict or contention, what is "now new" requires affirmation... To that end, all the information regarding the ascent of the victorious is gathered and rendered into a narrative which the future will hold as "history."
Often, truth suffers when the victorious recast the past into terms which benefit a new order. Further, as smaller, weaker people become thrust into power, they virtue signal by taking a stab at the departing order, sometimes outright demonizing everything having to do with those who were (or that which was) "defeated."
We have, in our limited time as a civilization, undergone many 'chapters' in the book of history. Each with many 'pages' and many many sections. Historians attempt to 'correlate' those things which repeat, crystalizing what lessons we have learned, noting those things that are remarkably salient and distinct, and often expressing the passage of time in terms of where we were.
Among those things we "knew" are those facts which stood up to a point, and then fell to "new" knowledge... and then there were those things known, that 'victors' labor to 'refuse.'
There are a couple of things 'victors' and their agents have done to some knowledge of history... such as it's complete erasure, its subtle obfuscation, and ultimate mischaracterization.
Signs and portents of the activity are easily deduced. And some 'changes" or 'denials' about history are well camouflaged... What can be done? Who can be assigned to restore historical reality? Who will "embrace" the false past?
Debate topic assertion: Our History is being erased in real time
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As soon as we resolve participants, we can get this show on the road.
As soon as we resolve participants, we can get this show on the road.
