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Originally Posted by Glenzig
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Well the same argument could be made that they were truly evil "for their times" also. All I'm saying is that what you're taught in a history class about how great a lot of these guys were is just a cherry picking of historical facts at best. At worst its completely dishonest about what actually happened or omits any info that would shine a bad light on them. So no its not that "we can't really know history", its that you can't really trust history books. History is written by the victors after all.
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Oh I agree but most post high school educated people are taught these things in college. Those stories are told because they make a good narritave that people remember. As people age and develop, if you continue to better yourself, you learn the non narratively pleasing facets of history. Such as indian cities bigger and cleaner than london. The US being agriculturally developed while we were sleeping with our shit covered pigs. It ties in with all that ancient alien bullshit. Most of our society cant get past that. But the ultimate effects of these presidents are still felt today