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Neither secret nor history. For a more objective, less ideological history of the ENIAC era at least, check out the book "ENIAC in Action".
by towaway1138 8y ago
Neither secret nor history. For a more objective, less ideological history of the ENIAC era at least, check out the book "ENIAC in Action".
- braythwayt 8y agoIn using the word “ideological,” you’ve introduced a nice ad hominem attack. In my experience, “ideological” is a word invariably used as an ad hominem to undermine an argument that opposes the speaker’s own ideological bias. Do I know that to be true in this case? No, but then again, you have given no evidence to the contrary, you just threw the word out there to try to marshall an emotional response, then segued into talking about being objective. That’s smarmy. Also, in calling this material “neither secret nor history,” you’re again engaging in rhetoric rather than argument. No, this material is not protected by Trade Secret or National Security law, but if it is not well known, the phrase “secret history of X” is a longstanding poetic metaphor. As you well know, lots of articles use this phrase to describe knowledge that is not well-known, especially if it runs counter to common folklore. If the above is not history, it’s your obligation to give examples where it is known to be false. Thanks for the book recommendation. I may take you up on it, because I don’t assume that it must be wrong just because the rest of your comment is empty criticism.
- towaway1138 8y agoNot "secret" in that it's a recurring narrative that's being pushed these days in many places. Not "history", in that it's simply not a reasonably objective account of what transpired. The actual history has been a natural flow of fairly benign social trends, not some sort of malicious conspiracy. Compare the writing in the book I cited to this piece. It's like night and day.