• rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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    We’ll see how many primary sources even survive the following decades.

    Though I don’t envy anyone who has to do history science when a large amount of primary sources are available. Imagine having to analyse Trump tweets for a paper.

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      We’re in the age of AI now. Are future historians going to be able to trust primary sources?

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      I can see future students simply denying that anyone would have really voted for DJT.

      “I refuse to believe that anyone was that dumb!”

      Can’t really blame them, I can hardly believe it now.

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        Many Germans did vote for Hitler (never the absolute majority of voters, though), even though he was clearly hateful and evil and obviously making lots of false claims, and on top of that looked completely ridiculous when he was shouting and screaming in his speeches. Can’t remember seeing any German say that they don’t believe that anyone voted for the guy.

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    Guessing it will be called The Stupid Ages, or maybe The Antichrist Years, depending on who is in charge.

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    If it’s like before, eventually it’ll be just a vague “things were bad” like the gilded age or great depression. Humans aren’t great at learning big picture things.

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    Bold assumption that our descendants will have the kind of general education that would result in what we think of “extra homework” for “history students”. I imagine a future scholar to be like Kenneth from 30 Rock

    spoiler

    (in his mortal form)

    Kenneth saying: "Science was my most favourite subject. Especially the old testament."

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                  ODYSSEUS (V.O.)
      And for centuries of darkness to follow, 
      the stories of Troy will only be sung...
      
                    PENELOPE
      Why will the stories only be sung?
      
                    ODYSSEUS
      Because songs will be all they have to
      remember those of us who could write.
      
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    It’s an outrageously optimistic hope of mine that there will be any students around to study history

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    Trump is trying to make it easier for history students by deleting all mention of racism and other forms of discrimination

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    All you young ones just wait until you get corrected in twenty years by someone like you because they didn’t live it and think they know more about it than you.

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    So… the US president was part of a child eating cult-like sex trafficking net that was actually managed by moSS*d. Countries around the world that stump into that information used it to blackmail him.

    At one point, the info got partially leaked, but he was kept in power for some reason.

    First: that wont ever make it to a history book

    Second: i wonder how many times things like this happened… this cabt be the first one

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      First: that wont ever make it to a history book

      It probably will, it’s too relevant to be left out. It will just not be explained in that plain language, because people care about protecting children from the raw character of historical figures.

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    I might suggest that rather than saying people are dumb for having made certain decisions, that we should ask ourselves how the opinions that led to those decisions were formed. There are always external factors acting on and influencing our agency.