Curse the supremely powerful global historian cabal!

  • paddirn@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Is there really anything that historians “don’t want us to know”? I feel like historians will more than likely want to tell us more about history than anybody would really ever care to know.

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      2 months ago

      Pretty much. Ask any historian a question about their area of expertise and getting them to stop wanting you to know things is the problem.

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      2 months ago

      Just how much we’ll never know because counter narratives were systematically destroyed in most periods until the printing press.

  • stoy@lemmy.zip
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    2 months ago

    All I want to do when someone started talking like this, is to ask “but why”, but I don’t as I lack the energy and willpower to deal with this.