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You need the right type of education. Being a highly trained engineer does not necessarily help, but you don't see a lot of historians falling for this type of
by wan23 6y ago
You need the right type of education. Being a highly trained engineer does not necessarily help, but you don't see a lot of historians falling for this type of stuff.
- an_opabinia 6y agoIf there were billionaire historians today you'd be hearing about their conspiracies.
- geofft 6y agoThe existence of the term "Polocaust" would like to disagree with you. A lot of this, I think, is driven by people badly wanting or not wanting things to be true. Religious history is another good spot where you can see highly-trained researchers buy into their community's biases, but in the last many years, we've gotten better as a society at acknowledging that religion is the sort of thing that can go sour like this. We haven't gotten good at acknowledging this about other forms of allegiance to a community. Most of the QAnon stuff is driven by patriotism gone sour, and with the benefit of hindsight, we've absolutely seen historians write to fit their worldviews, but we're not as good at seeing it in real time, when it matters.