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> History is written by the victors

No it isn't, history is written by people looking at old documents. Losers write a lot of history as well since it isn't like the victors go and kill all the losers or burn down all their documents.

> The greatest achiever of which work reached us, by the criteria that we pick, of the things we know today, and the "we" changes from culture to culture.

Yes, the history taught to us depends on where we live, not who won back then. If you are in country A they will say their glorius wars conquered B, if you are in country B they will say the tyranny when ruled A was a horrible time. History wasn't written by A, both sides gets to write most of the time.




>> History is written by the victors

> No it isn't, history is written by people looking at old documents.

Perhaps in very recent history but the old documents have been written by contemporary and there are many clear cases when the history has been rewritten by a tyrants e.g. politicians. I even know at least one large country based on multiple historical lies they tell to themselves and try to force upon others.

Defacing old sculptures and paintings to erase people from the history is another clearest example of this practice.


There's also self criticism.

People are quick to dogpile on entities that do self criticism while proud egoists who never analyze themselves rarely get that.




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