this post was submitted on 08 Dec 2023
1416 points (97.6% liked)
Microblog Memes
5846 readers
2939 users here now
A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.
Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.
Rules:
- Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
- Be nice.
- No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
- Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.
Related communities:
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I find it strange that people somehow mistrust all of the news and history of today but think the very same news sources and historians of the past were somehow accurate.
The news is written in a hurry. History is written with perspective. Both are drawing upon the same sources in the modern era except the history has more time to cross reference them. It is only natural that we get a better, clearer version of history as time and research is allowed to work on it.
I'm convinced humans have some kind of natural inherent fetishization of "old knowledge".
If it happened outside of living memory they somehow knew more or had special magical knowledge we just don't understand or can't interpret from our perspective. The older, the more true people can be convinced that it is.
As if there is some kind of "platonic ideal" of thoughts or ideas from which all others are derived from, where the further back something back it is, it MUST be more true
No doubt, I'm sure if we pulled up some 2k yo racist screed against Picts or whatever, we'd be like ahhh ancient wisdom we must treasure it, whereas now I just block people lol
The Romans did this very thing. One of the reasons the Jews got special treatment (pre-Jewish war and exhile) from sacrificing to the Roman Gods was because their at-that-time monotheistic religion was considered ancient and the Romans respected ancient. A huge part of early Christianity involved the Christians trying to convince the Romans that they were the new Israel and therefore deserving of toleration despite refusing to honor the Roman and local Gods (instead of the Jews).
The moment the Christians had real power, they went from begging for tolerance, to crushing paganism and persecuting Jews (who had the gall to challenge the validity of their cooption of Judaism).