He who writes history will be the victor!

[sweetnpetite]

Don't you think so?


whispers: ministry of truth...















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[rgraham666]

Actually the real history is written when no one cares any longer what the original kerfuffle was about.

Pity I won't live long enough to see what is written about our time.

 

[Weird Harold]

Actually the real history is written when no one cares any longer what the original kerfuffle was about.

Pity I won't live long enough to see what is written about our time.

Actually, I think S&P is trying to say that whoever is most successful at RE-writing his opponents history is going to be the winner.

If that is indeed what she's saying, then I think I agree with her.

Of course, the spin that's put on the candidates' histories wo't men squat when the "real" history is written long after all of us have ceased to care about it.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Most history of the Civil war prior to the leat 1980's was written by southerners. Almost all of the contemporary histories of the conflict were. I note for the record we still lost.

When it comes to winning and looseing, I think defining your opponent in the terms you want him seen in is a far superior strategy to re writing his history. With the seemingly short attention span of the american voting public, defining him in the fewest word possible seems to work best.

-Colly

 

[R. Richard]

I think that you will find that any time a dispute results in a conflict where one sie is not totally conquered by the other, there are TWO histories written. Each side has a history showing that they were right!

JMHO.

 

[Guest]

This thread is a total rip-off of my "History is written by the winners" thread (right now, my thread is probably on page two or three of this bulletin board).

I want my percentage.

(My thread was much funnier.)

I'm not going to contribute to this thread at all.

 

[Guest]

CV, not you too! I am so tired of the whingey men on this board. P.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

Up until now, history was written by the survivors.

A contemporary innovation is that history is now being rewritten by forensic scientists.

 

[sweetnpetite]

Most history of the Civil war prior to the leat 1980's was written by southerners. Almost all of the contemporary histories of the conflict were. I note for the record we still lost.

When it comes to winning and looseing, I think defining your opponent in the terms you want him seen in is a far superior strategy to re writing his history. With the seemingly short attention span of the american voting public, defining him in the fewest word possible seems to work best.

-Colly

and it helps if you use something cute like 'waffle' or 'flip-flop' (!)

 

[sweetnpetite]

This thread is a total rip-off of my "History is written by the winners" thread (right now, my thread is probably on page two or three of this bulletin board).

I want my percentage.

(My thread was much funnier.)

I'm not going to contribute to this thread at all.

I'm sorry.

I didn't mean to rip your thread off at all. I made a similer comment on your thread, and nobody seemed to respond to it, so I got impatient and decided to start my own.

Send me your bank account numbers and I'll deposit your percentage. (really I will...)

 

[Lord DragonsWing]

Most history of the Civil war prior to the leat 1980's was written by southerners. Almost all of the contemporary histories of the conflict were. I note for the record we still lost.

When it comes to winning and looseing, I think defining your opponent in the terms you want him seen in is a far superior strategy to re writing his history. With the seemingly short attention span of the american voting public, defining him in the fewest word possible seems to work best.

-Colly

Colly, in a way I agree and in a way I disagree. Most books that are published, even to this day, were written by authors from the south. Yet, if we look at what is taught in the school about the Civil War, that is all Northern. The south holds a mystique about this era and always will. It was the end of an era of romanticisim. The end of a Napoleonic way of war.
The North still has written their history about the south and it is taught throughout the country. The Romans did the same against the Celts and Jews when they were victorious. Now, the church gives us their version of history. If Hitler would of won during WWII we would surely have a different history being taught today.
I love history, I read everything I can on it. My area is the Civil War. I'm a re-enactor, I set up displays in a museum as a volunteer, my shelfs are covered with books of the era which I've read each half a dozen times at least. I maintain a newsgroup on msn about the war which post letters, recipes, schedules of re-enactments and much more information.
To the victor goes the history. And to the history of the victors our children are taught. I'm glad to find that others dig deeper into history as I do. Unfortunately, most don't. They accept what they were taught and look no further.

That is the sad part of history.