Message from @ManAnimal
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have you read "the bad war" ?
what about "The Myth of German Villainy"?
Heard of that one. No, haven't read it. If i remember right, i thought about it but the Foreward was looking to support an argument rather than reveiw the historical events
The Myth of German Villainy is a decent book
i think it lacks sources though
most books these days do
short form books realy
design for the masses
i mean, i'm from the days when if you cited wikipedia, your paper was dismissed out of hand
if wikipedia is valid, THEY have sources somewhere. track these down and cite them AND their sources
wikipedia is a joke these days
always was in my view
There are a lot of wikipedia sources that are literally just advertisement sites now
The older citation domains get bought up and replaced
there was a period when it was ok, but hte marxist moved in and re-wrote all the articles
I still have an old article on the peasants revolt saved
well, the academic community as a whole suffers from the problem that those papers that are POPULAR receive the most citations
it was rewritten and framed from a marxist perspective
and the more citations a paper has, the more credibility it is give
it was essentially an anti-tax protest but the wikipedia article now states it was an early example of marxist revolution lol
yea the sources they accept are left wing media sites
which use wikipedia as their source
that drives me crazy when people go back and spin events to suit a particular narrativ
i guess that is history in a nut shell
the trick to learning history is learn which perspective the person who wrote it had and interpret it with a grain of salt.
well, there is a difference between documenting an event and interpreting an event
there is a fine line
from one side they were attacked, from the other they were attacked
used to be because it took TIME and MONEY to compile the history, there were MUCH fewer sources and thus they were held to a higher standard
when less people controlled the narrative it was easier to control
today, the internet devalues things like truth and art
its easier to read history as objectively as possible. the treaty of versaille crippled germany to the point of desperation
and you basically get what happens in the Dark Knight
it was HARDER to control actually
dont salt the earth
you have to go back to the 1800s to understand ww1 and 2
the abandoned child will burn his village to feel its warmth, etc
how is it harder to control?
that is why the church and monarchy didn't like the printing press