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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Sept 4, 2022 5:08:35 GMT -5
I have encountered this attitude elsewhere in life and always find it boggling. If you have to have written proof of explicit conscious intent for everything, then nothing means anything. There is very rarely anything like that in art or in life. Some "so-called" game historians suffer from this delusion where interviews are deemed worthless and only written records can be considered when writing their "history". These people are IMO too stupid, dishonest and corrupt to understand that out in the real world there are a multitude of things that are never mentioned or explained in writing. This total discounting of interview and oral statements of the principals of a matter is IMO a clear demonstration of BIAS and DISREGARD for the TRUTH. And IMO, in fact when you read their works, the bias shines through quite clearly. Spot on!
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Post by Vladimir, The Dark Prince on Oct 5, 2022 10:42:19 GMT -5
To be fair, I think it is very rare to find an historian of anything, who is honest and objective and focused on the real world truth. I think the vast majority of historians are focused solely on preaching their own bias and not on the truth. I think of all the history books all the way through school and how they repeatedly lied by omission to us and also lied by just misrepresenting things through out history and other times just making it up out of whole cloth.
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Post by hengest on Oct 5, 2022 12:00:05 GMT -5
To be fair, I think it is very rare to find an historian of anything, who is honest and objective and focused on the real world truth. I think the vast majority of historians are focused solely on preaching their own bias and not on the truth. I think of all the history books all the way through school and how they repeatedly lied by omission to us and also lied by just misrepresenting things through out history and other times just making it up out of whole cloth. Unfortunate, but in my experience, true.
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