The history we know today is not at all reliable in almost no point, subject or period, and far from becoming increasingly aware of this and try to be more precise in modern historiography, people, academics, and historians, today, share a history increasingly biased and ideologically modified to go according to their positions.
If you have read the story from different sources, you will notice that there is no real historical reality about how things happened, but on the contrary, there are all kinds of imprecise approaches based on the speculations of the authors, which are closely linked to their ideological positions.
George Orwell once said:
"During part of 1941 and 1942, when the Luftwaffe was busy in Russia, the German radio regaled its home audience with stories of devastating air raids on London. Now, we are aware that those raids did not happen. But what use would our knowledge be if the Germans conquered Britain? For the purpose of a future historian, did those raids happen, or didn’t they? The answer is: If Hitler survives, they happened, and if he falls they didn’t happen. So with innumerable other events of the past ten or twenty years. Is the Protocols of the Elders of Zion a genuine document? Did Trotsky plot with the Nazis? How many German aeroplanes were shot down in the Battle of Britain? Does Europe welcome the New Order? In no case do you get one answer which is universally accepted because it is true: in each case you get a number of totally incompatible answers, one of which is finally adopted as the result of a physical struggle. History is written by the winners."
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And this is not something that happens a few times, it is something that happens every day and every year, Orwell also mentioned how Francoist Spain falsified many data of the Spanish Civil War, of which he, who fought in it , like many of his companions, they knew that they were false, but what would happen when they were dead? After none of those who lived at that time could tell Franco that his history was false, then it would become the only historical reality.
It does not matter if the regimes that rule over us are fascist, socialist, or "liberal democracies," history will not tell us something that harms those who currently rule over us, ever. Since the one that controls the present, controls the past, and the one that controls the past controls the future.
Something that has been used repeatedly as a way to change the past, questioning the sources, the data, the biases, or the validity of the historical record, is historical revisionism, however, most of the time it is used by the same governments or by people who just want to change past events that are not in accordance with their worldview and ideology.
In Latin America it is almost a tradition when it changes the ruler, to apply a severe historical revisionism in which it is established that everything has been done wrong during previous governments. In Europe and the United States we see how a massive historical revisionism is currently being applied that questions all the bases of Western civilization based on modern ideological biases. In countries like Russia or China, something similar happened to the arrival of the Socialists in power during the 20th century.
Currently, historical revisionism, more than a weapon to combat the doubtful or erroneous information of our past, has become the main driver of this, with the deliberate change of history for the favoring of political or academic objectives that are in total contradiction with our past.
The historical revisionisms carried out at present, sin of biases of all kinds, use recurring fallacies to approve historical facts, and completely distort the amphibologies until they give it a totally non-existent meaning, besides basing the study on tertiary and unreliable sources.
If we cannot base our knowledge of history on primary sources, since as we have already seen, history is written by the winners, based on their interests and objectives, and we cannot trust those who are supposed to fix historical biases through revisionism, because at the same time, these distort information due to their modern interests, we are in a limbo in which all the historical knowledge that we possess is doubtful in many different aspects.
By this stage of the game, I have personally decided to be quite pragmatic, and try to extract the information that seems useful from the history we know, applying it in daily life in order to reach conclusions and personal reflections. If you have read the book "The 48 laws of power" by Robert Greene, you know what I mean, although as a curious fact, I must mention that many of the stories that appear in this book are simply fallacious from beginning to end, but as nobody takes the time to check them one by one, these stories end up being as valid to reflect as the story we know, after all, not much difference.
History is more or less bunk.
Henry Ford
