Everyone so damn defensive about history texts like they’re fucking gospel.
Norm was a funny guy. It was a joke.
Studied history at uni. On the topic of historical revisionism professor shruged and said: History is revised all the time. It’s called learning more.
I mean, while there’s certainly a bias towards the victor, there’s definitely some histories that have slipped through from people who were very much not the victors. Josephus comes to mind, even if he did so by surrendering to the victors; Thucydides and Athens lost the Peloponnesian War; for a more recent example, the American South’s narrative on the Civil War.
for a more recent example, the American South’s narrative on the Civil War.
Bold of you to think that they would agree that it’s over.
I always loved his joke about 9/11. It went something like, “ I saw the towers fall and immediately went down to Ground Zero to look for my brother. I spent hours looking and searching for him, but I never found him then I remembered that he moved to Colorado three years ago.”
I realize he’s talking about “history is written by the victors” but I thought of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_of_all_possible_worlds
I couldn’t get past this…
Wai? Dude looks like he plays drums in a Spinal Tap tribute band. What could be better than that?
Its object was to solve the problem of evil, that is, to reconcile the existence of evil and suffering in the world with the existence of a perfectly good, all-powerfuland all-knowing God, who would seem required to prevent it
I’m reminded of HAL from 2001 for some reason. Maybe because HAL was given two conflicting goals and went insane trying to reconcile them with each other, rather than simply discarding the goal that was obviously just some nonsense.
Beings are possible together, in turn, when they do not enter into contradiction with each other. For instance, it is logically possible that a meteor might have fallen from the sky onto Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales’s head soon after he was born, killing him. But it is not logically possible that what happens in a given world (e.g. that Jimmy Wales founded Wikipedia) also does not happen in the same world (i.e. that Jimmy Wales did not found Wikipedia).
I miss Norm so bad. The wisdom of the ages packed into a guy you could work on a lawn mower with.
You would need to be extremely racist to think the good guys won the Opium War or the wars of European conquest in the Americas or Africa, and even centuries of propaganda spin don’t change that. And there are cases like the Siege of Constantinople in the Fourth Crusade that was rightfully vilified even at the time.
You would have to lack a certain kind of thinking to take this quote that was posted in the memes community seriously
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If we’re truly being pedantic, this is a meme as it is an idea shared and spread in a culture.
Definition of a meme according to the Meriam Webster dictionary. “an amusing or interesting item (such as a captioned picture or video)” looks like an amusing captioned picture to me.
Are you familiar with the concept of sarcasm? Or contextual reading?
One Piece, of all things, phrased this concept better
"Pirates are evil? The Marines are righteous? These terms have always changed throughout the course of history! Kids who have never seen peace and kids who have never seen war have different values! Those who stand at the top determine what’s wrong and what’s right! This very place is neutral ground! Justice will prevail, you say? But of course it will! Whoever wins this war becomes justice!"
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Isn’t this the guy that plays Yaphit?
Yes RIP a legend
Oh wow no idea he died. Maybe that’s why The Orville is ended.
Not sure but he had cancer for many years and never told the public. It was a shock to everyone.
Good guy Pyrrhus.
How many Americans in this thread have every read or seen anything about the Vietnam war written by a Vietnamese person ?
I’ve searched and could find no books, no movies, no tv shows written or produced by a Vietnamese person available in English.
Why is that ? I thought history was written by the victors.
Movies all with english subs or dubs
“When the tenth month comes” “the abandoned field” “the little girl of Hanoi”
Books available in many languages including English.
“The sorrow of war” “Last night I dreamed of peace” “Mourning headband for Hue” “nothing ever dies”
Just to name a few. Ive seen 1 and read 2. Nobody won that war and it never should have happened.
I’m not sure who told you the U.S. won the Vietnam War, but I have some bad news.
Idk maybe you need a new search engine I used DDG and found this list
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/186705.Books_on_Vietnam_War_from_Vietnamese_s_perspective
Also I’m sure many are aware of the Mai Lai Massacre and other events and the overall war itself is widely known as a “loss” for the US military.
And most everyone in the world knows about Agent Orange and the fallout from using it on those people that still today affects them.
I’ve never read an account of Vietnam from a Vietnamese person, so I’m adding one of these to my reading list. Thanks for sharing!
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da winors wrait da histoorie buks. I am weri smort.
Thank you
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The oppressed, butchered and exterminated victims of the European colonial systems would like a word with you…
That’s the joke.
At the risk of whoosing myself, can you explain the alt text lol
no whoosh, just the automatic alt text generated by my client.
Are you under the impression this is a statement made genuinely? Who do you think Norm Macdonald was?
Yes, I know it’s a joke and sarcasm.
I also know you have the cognitive depth of an ai. Since you chose to be offended by my response.
“Offended” Lmfao
