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<blockquote data-quote="Smackpixi" data-source="post: 9184207" data-attributes="member: 7028579">So, I’m going to offer a different take.&nbsp; Doesn’t matter.&nbsp; You liked the book, it was a great book, was it what historians generally regard as correct now? doesn’t matter. history is contested, there is no official or truely correct version of past events.&nbsp; Look at the news today, there is so much misinformation and wrong stuff being spouted that a good chunk of the population believes to be true.&nbsp; Fast forward 50 years and people sorting through contemporaneous reports will have a devil of a time sorting out what’s bs And what is not.you liked a book and ran into someone perhaps as knowledgeable as the author but who trusts different contemporaneous reports and artifacts more than those the author does.&nbsp; Who’s really right?&nbsp; What matters, the suffering of the conquered, or the galloping of the conquerors?&nbsp; And sometimes, did the battle even happen? unless you are a historian actively engaged in studying a thing, perfectly fine to like any take on the subject matter.&nbsp; even if it’s old.&nbsp; The currently accepted take on past history likely isn’t what it was 20 years ago, but it also probably will be different in another 20 years.that said, history is not meaningless and impossible to understand, but the current priorities and values of historians will always color their understanding of the past.&nbsp; What “really happened” no longer matters, but what it means to us today absolutely does.&nbsp; And that is not a fixed thing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Smackpixi, post: 9184207, member: 7028579"] So, I’m going to offer a different take. Doesn’t matter. You liked the book, it was a great book, was it what historians generally regard as correct now? doesn’t matter. history is contested, there is no official or truely correct version of past events. Look at the news today, there is so much misinformation and wrong stuff being spouted that a good chunk of the population believes to be true. Fast forward 50 years and people sorting through contemporaneous reports will have a devil of a time sorting out what’s bs And what is not. you liked a book and ran into someone perhaps as knowledgeable as the author but who trusts different contemporaneous reports and artifacts more than those the author does. Who’s really right? What matters, the suffering of the conquered, or the galloping of the conquerors? And sometimes, did the battle even happen? unless you are a historian actively engaged in studying a thing, perfectly fine to like any take on the subject matter. even if it’s old. The currently accepted take on past history likely isn’t what it was 20 years ago, but it also probably will be different in another 20 years. that said, history is not meaningless and impossible to understand, but the current priorities and values of historians will always color their understanding of the past. What “really happened” no longer matters, but what it means to us today absolutely does. And that is not a fixed thing. [/QUOTE]

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