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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LuisCarlos17f" data-source="post: 8463993" data-attributes="member: 6802378">Here it is not the best place to talk about History, but we can mention as certain points of view about History are showed with certain tropes in the speculative fiction, for example 7th Sea, the RPG (now by Chaosium) or the vampires wearing<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morion_(helmet)" target="_blank"> morions</a> in Itxalan, the world of Magic: the Setting. Or the trope of sinnister minister isn't present not only in Warhammer (fantasy and 40K) but also in other tiles, for example Fading Suns. The speculative fiction can be other battlefield in the cultural war. Thanks internet I found a different version about the facts, for example about the failed siege against Cartagena de Indias thanks Blas de Lezo, the "half-man", or the total faiulre of the expedition Drake-Norris, the counter-attack after the Invincible Armada. I have read UK helped in the independence of Iberoamerica, but this had to pay a lot of debts. Of course if you ask British, they will answer Iberoamerica is poor by fault of Spain, not the debts by the independentists. Really can you believe Spain's rivals as reliable sources? When the USA-Mexican started, how many naives lived in both sides of Rio Grande, in the Spanish and English-speaker zones?You can mention Galileo Galiei, condemned to recite penitential psalms, horrible punishment!, but nobody knows about when in URSS Trofin Lysenko's pseudoscientific theories were against the evolution and the genetic. Teachers were fired, and someone died in prison. You can mention inquisition, and I can answer most of the judged were ordinary criminals who blasphemed during secular trials because they would rather to be in the hands of the inquisition. The Iron Maiden torture or the chastity belts? Fake, totally, there aren't true proofs of their existence for the middle age. If I ask about the drowning at Nantes, do you know how many people were killed? And Mao's cultural revolucion? When the TTRPG and other franchises, for example the videogames "Assasin's Creed" tell about the History, they are only showing their own point of view, and may this is wrong.I say it is time to stop the trope of Spanish empire like the evil empire, and the trope of clergy as enemy of the science. George Lemaitre, the father of the Big Bang Theory, was a priest, and Mendel, the discover of the genetic laws, as a fray. The real middle age wasn't so dark like Umberto Eco told in "the name of the Rose". Some bad things happened, sadly, but there is also a lot of exageration. We can need humildity and self-criticism, but there is a time when you have to notice toxic people are trying to manipulate emotionally appealing the shame and guilty feeling.If you want to discover who is the potential menace as menace, you have to watch the reaction when somebody dare to disagree, and if they believe the solution to fix everything is more control by the state, more rules, laws and protocols because they don't trust the free citizen doing the right actions when you explain the reasons. They will sell you the tale of the state as the fairy oddmother fixing all your problems with her superpowers.If the speculative fiction wants to use the satire to warn against potential dictatorships then we have to distrust the state controlling everything, because then the economy would be like a monopoly, they aren't going to worry about the best work to avoid rival stealing clients, or suffering themself the weight of their own actions because we are the <s>suc</s> losers who will pay for the broken plates.And the respect for the human dignity. We have to recover those ethical values to not fall in the Dark Side of the Force. I mean the fiction should report and warn about what is wrong, but we have to offer the right solution or at least some idea or realistic suggestion, without demagogy.</blockquote>

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