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Position:Home>History> Since all of history is a severly distorted skewed record, why is history and cuQuestion: Since all of history is a severly distorted skewed record, why is history and culture so important!? most of all history's recordings are false in one way or another!. Some moreso than others, but generally all history is distorted, and continues to be distorted!.
So why is history and culture so important if most of it is false!? The bible and god, George Washington, the native americans, 9/11 !.!.!. everything as a historic record is not accurate!. Why do we continue to learn false history!. Why is history not viewed as an opinion or point of view!?Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: i cant even remember what i had for dinner last night much less why we are in Iraq!.!.all i know is more war and tax cuts for all!.!.McBush in 08Www@QuestionHome@Com We learn it because it is the best we have got!. If we had more accurate history books, we would read those instead!. It is better for us to learn what they say happened than to be totally ignorant of what came before!. It is also good to try reading multiple books by different authors!. The truth might be halfway between what the different sides say!.Www@QuestionHome@Com "Those who do not know History are condemned to relive it" Most of it actually, is very true, and has happened at one time or another, and besides, the false stuff is the worlds greatest story, isn't it!?Www@QuestionHome@Com History in the wider sense is all that has happened, not merely all the phenomena of human life, but those of the natural world as well!. It includes everything that undergoes change; and as modern science has shown that there is nothing absolutely static, therefore the whole universe, and every part of it, has its history!. The discovery of ether brought with it a reconstruction of our ideas of the physical universe, transferring the emphasis from the mathematical expression of static relationships to a dynamic conception of a universe in constant transformation; matter in equipoise became energy in gradual readjustment!. Solids are solids no longer!. The universe is in motion in every particle of every part; rock and metal merely a transition stagc between crystallization and dissolution!. This idea of universal activity has in a sense made physics itself a branch of history!. It is the same with the other sciencesespecially the biological division, where the doctrine of evolution has induced an atttudc of mind which is distinctly historical!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |