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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.
Minor correction: this isn’t gripping. It’s radicalising. It’s making me look at periods of business history through a horrible new lens.
Cedric Chinx.comIn other words, people who don’t know better are often wrong by accident, and people who do know better are sometimes wrong on purpose—and whenever a modern news story explodes, everyone recognizes that possibility. But we question this far less when the information comes from the past.
Chuck Klosterman • But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
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.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
the News is Fake, Imagine History The collision of Leviathans has knocked something loose. Access to all that information from the Network has changed our perception of the present, and with it the perception of the past. The historical inevitability and (even more importantly) the desirability of the US establishment’s victory over all opponents
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