Historians have a concept known as social memory which states that a social collective will create an artificial impression of events which combines shared aspects of historical realities with fabricated ideas which seem close enough to reality to be accepted as real. Someone interjects a fallacy which enough people are willing to accept which inversely rewrites reality. Due to this effect, it is commonly known to historians that the common views and memories of a society of its or anothers past are generally false and must be taken as invalid. To give an example, every called Sarah Palin an idiot for saying she could see Russia from her backporch. Seeing as the offical borders between the two nations are separated by 2 miles of international water, shes actually correct given room for hyperbole. Dont get me wrong, the woman was willful ignorant and quite dangerous. Another example would be the Draft during the Vietnam War during which 4 times as many people volunteered than were drafted.I say all this to create a sense of wariness about the public view of events both past and present. Because given this principle, most of what youve learned about who you are as a member of your cultural group and society is crap. Its rhetoric built on the aggrandizement of a social conscious which is inevitably so insecure that it must recreate its image in the false memories it teaches its children. We are all brainwashed by cultural whitewash to create a social ego driven by pride which inevitably is undeserved when compared against the larger collective of humanity or a nation state as a collective group. Go Tigers.
Posted on: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 06:05:54 +0000
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