AFaithfulNihilist comments on I've read some weird takes about 9/11 already.

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[–] AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world 40 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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.

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[–] KinglyWeevil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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[–] UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago

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

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[–] DarthBueller@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago

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).

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