Sunday, May 9, 2010
history
What is history? Is it merely what happened in the past? If that is so, then that would actually prove itself to be false. There are countless pieces of evidence that have been destroyed for various reasons and others that were simply deemed less important by historians. Think about it, there is no possible way to account for every detail that takes place in an event. The historians are ultimately the ones who have to decide which pieces of evidence available to them are important or not important for the account. So really, aren't we just reading what is essentially the historians' recreation of the event from the limited evidence that was available to them?
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Wow you're such a little philosopher :) I love this -- especially when you think about history being created through the personal lives of everyone in society at the time. Everyone has their own personal history and version of the events that happen. I like to see literature as a way of attempting to re-create that emotional or social history through fiction, as opposed to the facts that historians write about.
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