Originally posted by gnukid
Quote: | Originally posted by Pompano
gnukid...I speak from my own experience.
As a avid student of 'actual' history, I mistrust almost all history books. They have agendas.
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Skepticism of history books is an excellent starting position, however there does exist a thing we can call the true history and it is possible to
read various sources, gather evidence backed by witness and material and with a comparative view you can decide for yourself what occurred.
On the hand, you can throw your hands up and say we can know nothing at all for certain is another position. Between these tow likely is the closet we
can come to the truth.
It's interesting to me how often I meet both young and old who refuse to read or consider any view other than what is repeated most often on their
local TV, on the other hand certainly youthful wonder and wisdom of ages seems to provide desire for facts, interest in the world.
There are two main historical theories, the one where we just fumble along and everyone is basically an idiot making mistakes to arrive where we are,
and the other theory that history is the result of actions organized by those with the most ability to cause action, generally for their own profit
and benefit.
To that end, one needn't shy away in any case from considering history and certainly one should resist the urge to ignore what you know.
What strikes me most about the Skeetisms, is that his writing takes the form, he follows a logic which if described would be: draw attention, attack
with vague statements, change the subject often, create straw-men and demand people to defend those and then change the subject again,
attack-withdraw. This appears to be a very successful political gaming strategy when dealing with an easily distracted audience who have no
historrical perspective. In the back of my mind, I am thinking there are some really well educated, thoughtful and educated people here who must know
a great deal about BF Skinner's gaming strategy, the politics of FreeMasonry, groupthink and history of the monarchical social influence on society.
We seem to be at a critical juncture in time, which requires some independent and critical thought? I defer to the experts. |