I think we’re moving on from fake news to fake history. Apparently historic events that are actually meaningless noise.
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I don't think we have really had a real history for about 50 or so years. It will be hard for us to know. It's hard to know what actually is significant so close to history's making. I don't think we have completely grasped the significance of our monetary policy in shaping it.
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This is a major theme of the most recent Neal Stephenson novel.
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These days, if Hollywood doesn’t like somebody, they make a biopic movie about them that is filled with lies, even if they are still alive. Forget about historical revisionism – the present is being revised before our eyes. What do you call the opposite of a hagiography?
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The South never lost the war, but was overthrown in a dishonest coup. Nazi Germany was actually a very nice place. The Holocaust never happened. Trump won the popular vote. The El Paso shooter was a registered Democrat.
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"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past." Orwell (and later, Rage Against the Machine)
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