DavidN
2009-04-16 04:05:25
It’s pitiful, isn’t it? People *want* history to teach them something, so when it doesn’t, they rewrite it so that it says what it should. Then they tell everyone what happened, in their world, and soon it becomes reality, in some fashion. The sad thing is that alternative forms of history, like musicals and plays and so forth, while artistic, aren’t as scholarly as books on history, for instance. They’re also, because they’re art, less subject to things like peer review. This means that any predisposition of the “artist” can seep into their work, and there’s virtually no control over it anywhere, to prevent things from getting out of hand. And so it has gotten out of hand, hasn’t it?
