Friday 28 September 2012

Six Word Memoir #3




This is a saying I use a lot and it does well and truly hold up. History is never truly an accurate picture for the reasons of evidence and point of view. Evidence, do to the fact, that new evidence comes to light all the time  rewriting the evidence already perceived to be well understood. Perception, because people today have the benefit of hindsight.  It is for those reasons that history is not a true analogy of the past. The odd spelling of the word history is an analogy to this....if history can't be accurate than why should the spelling of the word be accurate. The choice of a text book as a representation of history is meant to represent the understanding of history. Unfortunately, anything published in a text book may already be obsolete.

1 comment:

  1. I was wondering about the spelling! I'm glad you explained why you misspelled the word.

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