Sometimes they’re right though.
Of course not if it’s a verifiable fact, but as I’ve grown older, I have seen plenty of historical “facts” getting proven to be wrong. All it takes is for a young mind to challenge the existing views.
Having an open mind is more important than being right. Most inventions happen by accident while pursuing something else, something wrong.
Its also our opinions are shaped generally by news cycles. Republicans seem to memory hole stuff like january 6th by repeatedly painting over bits of it over time.
But there’s also instances where the initial cycle paints an incorrect picture. If you want examples on this see just about every episode of the dollop, particularly “africanized honey bees”
“Serendippity-doobee-doo” - Frank Sinatra /s
On the other hand, my dad’s final response to criticism of Apartheid was “you weren’t there”.
No, but the whole rest of the world at the time* didn’t like it either!
*except Israel, as it so happens
Reagan liked apartheid (as I remember)
Had this happen the other day trying to describe why we believed blatant lies about video games like the rumors about being able to see Samus completely nude in Metroid.
Like, kid… I was there. I know what I am talking about. You didn’t have wikis or youtube or Reddit to go and ask “hey, how do I see naked Samus?” You just heard your cousin say “you can see samus naked at the end of Metroid if you beat it fast enough” and so you keep speedrunning the game never seeing her naked thinking you just need to go faster.
I remember bringing a Polaroid picture of my 10" television screen into my English class just to prove to my best friend that the Hylian loach existed.
There was the Justin Bailey cheat code, though.
Never saw this one. What’s it do?
Does it count if it was 2020 and the person is also your age? I feel like a LOT of people have a weirdly revisionist memory of the first few months of the pandemic.
It’s not the first few months of the pandemic anymore?
What year is it?
You mean there weren’t roaming soldiers shooting people in the street and welding masks to the corpses?
If you live your life based on a narrative and not undeniable facts you constantly have to revise history
History is always being revised. This isn’t a bad thing, but rather inherent to the process of history. History isn’t about assembling facts together; it’s about the continual process of interpretation and reinterpretation. That means there’s no such thing as settled history, because there’s always more insight we can gain by looking backwards, even if we haven’t unearthed new evidence from a particular period.
Even if you had some undeniable facts about your life, those start to get wibbly wobbly the instant you try to communicate them to someone, because words are imprecise.
I’m sixty and haven’t had this yet. But, then, I don’t talk to anyone, either, so…
Haven’t had that yet, but having travelled a lot I find it jarring how many other countries seem to think that Thatcher was a great leader to look up to, and not a dreadful callous nightmare who sold the country out on multiple levels to create the illusion of prosperity.
well retrospective analysis might actually be more worthwhile than a random experience. Witnesses of historical events tend to be a blessing and a curse in history, because they all come biased.
all history is biased. The thing that history really doesn’t address is at that very moment what was the attitude of the regular Joe.
How you don’t even need to be old. You can just do that with current events with videos from multiple angles!
The biggest one for me is when I see people glazing Bush, like either you’re a teenager or you weren’t paying attention.
Sometimes it’s good to hear another perspective, though.
This hasn’t happened to me yet. I might not be old enough though I feel ancient.
I just want to say that I appreciate that this was de-zittered to be posted here.
… And then having to admit they where right because your mind gets flaky
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The point is you can remember it because you were there for the news cycle. Imagine a kid telling you all about what covid lockdowns were like in 20 years. That’s what they mean.
