Comment by verisimi
1 year ago
No need to distance yourself from historical revisionism. History has always been a tool of the present powers to control the future direction. It is just licensed interpretation.
No one has the truth, neither the historical revisionists not the licensed historians.
> No one has the truth, neither the historical revisionists not the licensed historians
This is a common claim by those who never look.
It’s one thing to accept you aren’t bothered to find the truth in a specific instance. And it’s correct to admit some things are unknowable. But to preach broad ignorance like this is intellectually insincere.
No such thing as historical revisionism. The truth is that the good guys won every time. /s
That's not a fair representation of people who have spent their lives preserving historical truth. I'm good friends with an individual in Serbia whose family has been at the forefront of preserving their people's history despite the opposition groups bent on destroying it (the family subsequently received honors for their work). Inferring they are no better than revisionists seems silly.