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Politicians before: "Vote for me, we will do xyz, create a great future and change history!" Politicians today: "Vote for me, we will do xyz and change history

Politicians before: "Vote for me, we will do xyz, create a great future and change history!" Politicians today: "Vote for me, we will do xyz and change history ...books"

TeMPOraL 6y ago
The heroes of yore were the ones who wrote history. I'm just an editor.
- nix23 6y ago
  No one 'writes' history, that's why you need historians, they are the ones that can bring a matter into the right context and research why something was 'written' like it is, like it was a battle of 10000 Horsemen when in fact historians know that a that time in hole Europe maximal 3000 Battle-horses existed.
  - sokoloff 6y ago
    I’m pretty sure that GP’s use of “write” was meant as doing things not the literal writing them down.
  - psychoslave 6y ago
    Well, history surely have a lot of good tools to cross information by now, meanwhile historians are still human beings happening in some specific socio-cultural frame. If you rely on someone else analysis – which is reasonable – being aware of the person profile is as important as the impact of the work on shaping society representations.
andi999 6y ago
A good man knows his limitations...
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082349872349872 6y ago
"History is more or less bunk." — Our Ford. https://www.hemmings.com/stories/2018/01/14/fact-check-what-henry-ford-meant-when-he-said-history-is-bunk https://www.hemmings.com/stories/2018/01/14/fact-check-what-... (that was 1916. Later, Ford would become more outspoken, leading to current debate as to what degree he sympathised with certain european politicians known for claiming to create a great future and change history.)
rsynnott 6y ago
... History is if anything far less politically influenced today than at any prior point in, er, history. The whole idea that a historian might be appropriately critical of the country in which they live is rather new, as is the idea that a historian shouldn't be in the business of censoring history for a public audience.

Politicians before: "Vote for me, we will do xyz, create a great future and change history!" Politicians today: "Vote for me, we will do xyz and change history ...books"

TeMPOraL 6y ago

The heroes of yore were the ones who wrote history. I'm just an editor.

nix23 6y ago
No one 'writes' history, that's why you need historians, they are the ones that can bring a matter into the right context and research why something was 'written' like it is, like it was a battle of 10000 Horsemen when in fact historians know that a that time in hole Europe maximal 3000 Battle-horses existed.
- sokoloff 6y ago
  I’m pretty sure that GP’s use of “write” was meant as doing things not the literal writing them down.
- psychoslave 6y ago
  Well, history surely have a lot of good tools to cross information by now, meanwhile historians are still human beings happening in some specific socio-cultural frame. If you rely on someone else analysis – which is reasonable – being aware of the person profile is as important as the impact of the work on shaping society representations.

andi999 6y ago

A good man knows his limitations...

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082349872349872 6y ago

"History is more or less bunk." — Our Ford. https://www.hemmings.com/stories/2018/01/14/fact-check-what-henry-ford-meant-when-he-said-history-is-bunk https://www.hemmings.com/stories/2018/01/14/fact-check-what-... (that was 1916. Later, Ford would become more outspoken, leading to current debate as to what degree he sympathised with certain european politicians known for claiming to create a great future and change history.)

rsynnott 6y ago

... History is if anything far less politically influenced today than at any prior point in, er, history. The whole idea that a historian might be appropriately critical of the country in which they live is rather new, as is the idea that a historian shouldn't be in the business of censoring history for a public audience.