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Calling people children for taking offense (Gaming)

by Kermit @, Raleigh, NC, Friday, December 11, 2020, 08:54 (1204 days ago) @ Cody Miller

I also am of the opinion that it is a sort of hubris to think that we can dictate to future historians what was important to us. Star Wars has a been around for 40 years - in another 40 years who knows how its significance (let alone the minutiae of the details of the movies themselves) will have waxed or waned.


Birth of A Nation is still studied and analyzed by historians and filmmakers to this day. It came out in 1915. That is just one example.

Artifacts are important to understanding history precisely because they are the original things--not descriptions or interpretations of things filtered through the generations in-between. History is and always will be an imperfect and incomplete version of the truth, but evidence from the actual time gets us closer to knowing what the reality was like. Art, as your said in your first post, is integral evidence.


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