Your inspection of 'historical events'. If it's effective?
For example - do you ever find yourself thinking quite differently about 'an event' - than the popular slogans about the same event?
Ever revise your personal views on Other matters - when you notice a significant discrepancy between Your Take Now and that popular one which you may have shared?
Oh yes, almost always, and it usually isn't a popular view. ;) For example, when I finally allowed myself to read about Hitler, I mean REALLY read about him,
i.e. his childhood, etc, I came to feel terribly sorry for him because of the way his mother raised him. Because he wanted to play with the "jew" children, and he couldn't comprehend why he wasn't allowed. And at first he really liked some of them, but then his mother started "drilling into his brain" that jews were bad, they were inferior and would ultimately destroy him if he didn't rise above them.
He turned into the "monster" that all viewed him as, but I no longer viewed him as that "monster" anymore, just a seriously gone bad product of bad bad upbringing and teaching. Before that, before reading this, he was the "monster" everyone painted him to be.
And I know this will be a LOT less popular, but even in such modern day "assassins" as Timothy McVeigh and Eric Harris & Dylan Klebold, reading into the backgounds of these people open a different picture, one that if you allow yourself to read and study, tells you where and why these people followed the paths they ultimately followed. Are they still monsters? Maybe in one respect, but in another respect, they are victims of society, of the way the Government treated them in one instance, and their peers and family treated them in another.
I delve into this, I want to know it all, I want to understand why someone would murder millions of jews, blow up Government buildings and massacre fellow students... what drives them there... maybe by someday understanding that, someday it can be prevented the next time?
This is always hard, of course - as it implies that one's 'reasoning' was less than perfect.. before. But Good though! (this discomfort) - No?
Absolutely, makes you think and rethink and learn as you go.
Nightowl >8#
A worthy aim -
