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History is almost always more complicated than people's narratives. Narratives are a model. Some are more accurate than others, but ultimately all of them are
by manachar 10y ago
History is almost always more complicated than people's narratives.
Narratives are a model. Some are more accurate than others, but ultimately all of them are just models which simplify history (sometimes in verifiably false ways).
- crpatino 10y agoHistory that is not only innacurate, but conveniently presents the author's least preferred side as gratiously Evil? We have a word for that: propaganda.