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Understanding and identifying retconning is a critical capacity for media literacy & the ability to navigate the excessive propaganda (corporate & governmental) we receive from large institutions.
Changing the interpretation of the past is critical to controlling the future.
Benjamin Lifex.com1/ Understanding and identifying retconning is a critical capacity for media literacy & the ability to navigate the excessive propaganda (corporate & governmental) we receive from large institutions. Changing the interpretation of the past is critical to controlling the future.
History can weigh like a millstone; archaic distinctions and practices can drag upon our freedom and agency. But detachment from the past has its own pitfalls. It means that the past that survives is a default genealogy, a mere reflection of the status quo, fixed and irrelevant. It loses its living value, its capacity to help the current generation
... See moreLizzie O'Shea • Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital Technology
History can get stuck and can go into reverse. Powerful interests will do whatever they can to resist, divert, confuse or disrupt trends that they find threatening. Imagination is one of the weapons with which to confront them—imagination that is compelling, rigorous and thought through.