Leo's Blog: Infinite Insights
Miscellaneous bits of wisdom and resources on personal development, life purpose, philosophy, epistemology, nonduality, psychedelics, etc. Published randomly throughout the week.
- penetrating mental vision or discernment.
- the sudden act of grasping the inner nature or truth of a situation.
- a deep understanding of a person or thing.
Insights here are meant to be quick and half-baked. Consider these food for thought.
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This is a nice contrarian take:
Perhaps it is better to say that history is written by the survivors. Hard to write history if you're dead.
The real point though, is that the history you are taught is the history that serves those in power. Which history becomes popular is not neutral or objective, it's a political decision that serves someone's survival.
The question is more nuanced than who writes the history. The question is more about which history becomes mainstreamed and popularized, and why. Winners tend to have the political power to popularize history that favors them. Case in point: Christianity and Islam.
