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5 Responses to “don’t worry, “factual” history is going to do your family justice…”  

1. 1 Lex Jun 7th, 2006 at 3:32 pm

   To paraphrase Count Inigo Montoya, he keeps using that word, but I do not think it means what he thinks it means.

2. 2 Bruce Burch Jun 7th, 2006 at 4:09 pm

   I remember a line my father told me once… History is written by the victors.

   As someone who relishes the historical context of things and likes to relate the present to the past, I cannot help but cringe to hear the Bugger-In-Chief’s brother talk about revisionist history.

   Those Bush boys would probably write slavery out of the history books, or perhaps the indian massacres.

   Either way, history is meant to be factual- though in practice hardly ever is.

3. 3 Sean Coon Jun 7th, 2006 at 4:28 pm

   the writing of history is a factual exercise, but it’s also an editorial undertaking, so facts are always left out. that’s a pretty simple concept to understand, but people in power — like the shrubs — want none of that.

   they want an official history to document their primary narrative.

   well, earth to control freaks, the web has become your worst nightmare. pass all the bills you want because kids in 2030 are going to be using a 3rd generation google on their cell phone, while interacting with their congresspeople via their public-mandate blogs, to research a book report on your lame, historic asses… and “history” will be oh so complete.

4. 4 Roch101 Jun 7th, 2006 at 6:31 pm

   “public-mandate blogs”

   Not ’till 2030? I hope I can still see by then.

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