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steamroller wrote:Napoleon once said, "History is a set of lies agreed upon." Tolstoy once said, "History would be a wonderful thing, if it were only true." The worst examples are where war is involved. One truism I heard about it says, "In war, truth is the first casualty." For the winning side, it remains a casualty. Which brings up another truism. "History is written by the victors."
Macdoc wrote:With multiple sources these days a bit harder to write A version.
Certainly Churchill covered up Magic and Ultra in his version of WWII and spawned 1984.
Cito di Pense wrote:steamroller wrote:Napoleon once said, "History is a set of lies agreed upon." Tolstoy once said, "History would be a wonderful thing, if it were only true." The worst examples are where war is involved. One truism I heard about it says, "In war, truth is the first casualty." For the winning side, it remains a casualty. Which brings up another truism. "History is written by the victors."
Come to that, the human condition is absurd, and so, also, is your grand metametanarrative. So there.
steamroller wrote:Macdoc wrote:With multiple sources these days a bit harder to write A version.
Certainly Churchill covered up Magic and Ultra in his version of WWII and spawned 1984.
There is only one version of history that matters. The true version. When the truth is suppressed, telling the true version is impossible.
steamroller wrote:Cito di Pense wrote:steamroller wrote:Napoleon once said, "History is a set of lies agreed upon." Tolstoy once said, "History would be a wonderful thing, if it were only true." The worst examples are where war is involved. One truism I heard about it says, "In war, truth is the first casualty." For the winning side, it remains a casualty. Which brings up another truism. "History is written by the victors."
Come to that, the human condition is absurd, and so, also, is your grand metametanarrative. So there.
Are there any intelligent people at this forum? That is, aside from myself.
steamroller wrote:Napoleon once said, "History is a set of lies agreed upon." Tolstoy once said, "History would be a wonderful thing, if it were only true." The worst examples are where war is involved. One truism I heard about it says, "In war, truth is the first casualty." For the winning side, it remains a casualty. Which brings up another truism. "History is written by the victors."
Just A Theory wrote:steamroller wrote:Napoleon once said, "History is a set of lies agreed upon." Tolstoy once said, "History would be a wonderful thing, if it were only true." The worst examples are where war is involved. One truism I heard about it says, "In war, truth is the first casualty." For the winning side, it remains a casualty. Which brings up another truism. "History is written by the victors."
And yet George Santayana said: Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it.
But, there's an even more apropos quotation from him, just for you:
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
steamroller wrote:Napoleon once said, "History is a set of lies agreed upon." Tolstoy once said, "History would be a wonderful thing, if it were only true." The worst examples are where war is involved. One truism I heard about it says, "In war, truth is the first casualty." For the winning side, it remains a casualty. Which brings up another truism. "History is written by the victors."
steamroller wrote:Napoleon once said, "History is a set of lies agreed upon." Tolstoy once said, "History would be a wonderful thing, if it were only true." The worst examples are where war is involved. One truism I heard about it says, "In war, truth is the first casualty." For the winning side, it remains a casualty. Which brings up another truism. "History is written by the victors."
steamroller wrote:Cito di Pense wrote:steamroller wrote:Napoleon once said, "History is a set of lies agreed upon." Tolstoy once said, "History would be a wonderful thing, if it were only true." The worst examples are where war is involved. One truism I heard about it says, "In war, truth is the first casualty." For the winning side, it remains a casualty. Which brings up another truism. "History is written by the victors."
Come to that, the human condition is absurd, and so, also, is your grand metametanarrative. So there.
Are there any intelligent people at this forum? That is, aside from myself.
SafeAsMilk wrote:I don't know about history, but I've got a pithy quote about 911:
felltoearth wrote:SafeAsMilk wrote:I don't know about history, but I've got a pithy quote about 911:
They were the first to know. 10 years before!!!
LucidFlight wrote:Is it odd that I find Public Enemy more interesting and entertaining from an historical perspective?
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