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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.
All of this is just second-level.
Even if Indian businesses/GoI buys access to pols through lobbyists etc. the lies on the ground here about Brahmins, Hinduism, Sati, "Caste-System" etc. won't change.
These tropes are like Nixon's 6th fleet. Always on the doorstep. But just with a cloaking... See more
VAMSEE JULURIx.comOften, we have to rid ourselves of older dominant narratives before we can be open to new ones—pushing to one side stories about the virtues of our nation, political system or economy that have become so embedded in our minds through constant repetition that we never question them
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
History tells you who’s in charge. Why did Orwell say that he who controls the past controls the future, and that he who controls the present controls the past? Because history textbooks are written by the winners. They are authored, subtly or not, to tell a story of great triumph by the ruling establishment over its past enemies.