Revisionist Fantasy
The passage “Revisionism Revisited” talks about revising history due to new discovers and factual evidence that was not present at the time of the incident or its investigation. I think this is a weird concept because this is suggesting that somethings in history may have been falsily reported due to lack of knowledge about a situation. This is so strange to me because it brings into questions so much of history and even things reported today. How many of them are reported falsely because of assumption made just by looking at the most obvious evidence and without looking deeper into the problem? This sound like a big conspiracy theory, but it has been seen to happen in a couple different instances as mentioned in the passage. This also makes me wonder what historical “facts” do we think we know right now that will eventually be proven false through new findings. Perhaps like the selection metioned we will in the future find out the truth behind Presidnet Kennedy’s assassination or maybe some other type of government secret will leak out and our eyes will be opened to some other truth. To go on with the conspiracy theory maybe some of the truth of these stories are being held back by some government agency, I can not imagine why, but just to go on more with a conspiracy theory maybe the government is hiding the truth from us and only releasing it when they feel we are ready. To get away from the conspiracy theories we also have to look at the significants of knowing the truth of these events, like why would the government be holding back some information if it is not really going to have any effect on us. Like is it really important to know what year Edward II was killed? Will that change our life or anything about the present?
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history facts said this on November 24, 2007 at 2:29
I also think it’s very weird to think that history is something that can change. But it really does. We make new discoveries all the time that disprove previous assumptions that we had. I also think it’s very interesting though. I love hearing new theories about this on the history channel or even hearing history froma different source’s perspective. As to whether or not the government is hiding things from us I can’t be sure. But it is pretty likely. I mean take places like Area 51 for instance. They shoot people on sight there so they’re obviously hiding something.