The Deficiency of History
The Deficiency of History
how correct is your history?
History is the documentation of past occurrences. History is studied, learned and taught in different schools of learning; both formal and informal schools. Those who graduate from the study of history are called historians. History is meant to help mankind understand her genesis and the path of metamorphosis. However, the deficiency of history is what many has not thought about.
The deficiency of history is premised on the deficiency of humanity. The fact that history is documented by humans has made it substantially fallible. Every documented history is based on who documented it. That means it is very subjective to human error;
depending on a lot of factors under which it is documented.
The deficiency of history is very salient when you go through some historic books that documented wars and conflicts. You will discover that if five books are written concerning same war and conflict, you are bound to see conflicting reports because those who are reporting are most likely going to report based on the emotion they shared in the conflict.
Most historic documentation of conflicts are biased. This is not supposed to sound strange because it is expected that every documentation will reflect the view of the person documenting it. The side documenting the conflict is most likely going to favour the sentiments they harbor.
In wars and conflicts, neutral observers are deployed on either side of the conflict but the chances that the neutral observers are going to more or less favour the side they find themselves in is very high.
In some cases, there is a deliberate effort by actors in a conflict to manipulate the truth so as to favour themselves and make themselves look cleaner than they would have appeared had the story been told as it is.
The implication of this is that students of history should do well to gather every opinion documented concerning any history. These opinion should be properly evaluated and analyzed to make a more balanced decision when working with historic documentations.
Man has feeling, feeling affects objectivity therefore, any documentation by man is prone to human subjectivity.
It reminds me of the famous mistranslation of Krushchev's " we will bury you" statement. What he actually said was something along the lines of " we will be there when you are buried" which is apparently a famous Russian saying.
Either way my point being is that if that was translated properly at the time maybe, just maybe, there would have been less tension between the two powers of the cold war. Hard to say though really, maybe they would have found a different excuse to hate each other.
How far are you willing to take it though? History is written by the victor for a reason & the way the world is today is a direct result of the fact that some aspects of 'history' have become unquestionable & to even talk about them is considered taboo.
Very interesting post.
It's true that every country's textbooks make themselves out to be the heroes and same goes for every religion as well.
Every religion believes only themselves to be the one true religion and this can never be fixed until a neutral standpoint is taken on all history books.
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