Our current question is : History is full of lossers and winners but it is the winners who make history. Discuss Sorry for the spelling, but my teacher is irish!

Revisionist history or postmodernist history - they're both terrible. We've been studying historiography, and it's really good. I just find it disappointing that postmodernists criticise history, even thought they aren't even historians! It's like the butcher criticising the carpenter, and saying it could be done better, and that whatever the carpenter tries to do, is going to be wrong, because history itself is simply bunk.

Taw, is there anything you don't know something about?

Edited by - cookiemonster on 6/4/2004 8:17:22 PM

YOU IDIOTS!!! The answer is right in front of you why make it complicated?

2 WORDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HIS STORY

snipa, theres no need to oversimplify. it kill conversation

Vi

"Taw, is there anything you don't know something about?"

yeh.

now, is the "yeh" an answer, or is it your sig?

i stole the cookie from the cookie jar

"yeh" is the answer because my sig would clearly be my sig (and some obscure indie lyric in all probability)

but to expand..

yes, there are many many things I know little or nothing about, and don't even have an opinion on, and usually don't even care. However the things I do know about and/or have an interest in, I do know a lot about.

better?

..thank you frailty, thank you consequence, thank you thank you silence..

i'm more than satisfied

however, back OT, i have to say i like the way you guys think. i'm sick of people i know saying history is just dead and boring - whereas, history is not as simple as "his story", it's simultaneously one of the most alive and dead (as in the past) subjects ever.

indeed, as VH16 said "The person's personal biases and interpretations should be noted" - we shouldn't take history or anything as being perfectly true - there is inherent bias in everything (even in the evening news - they wouldn't be reporting something if there was no point, and then they're going to try to prove it)




i stole the cookie from the cookie jar

EDIT : and what's indie? music?

Edited by - cookiemonster on 6/5/2004 3:13:14 AM

History can be very interesting, but it makes me angry when ppl use history to further their own ideals and stuff


"...All idealization makes life poorer. To beautify it is to take away its character of complexity--it is to destroy it." Conrad




Edited by - sycho_warrior on 6/5/2004 3:21:04 AM