The past is not true
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The past is not true
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#2In an alternate universe: the lady couldn’t walk, got obese and died of a heart attack 10 years ago.
So, the past isn’t true until it is and then, maybe, it’s even worse.
Not sure what to make of this story.
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#3I think this story is meant to be uplifting to those who are troubled by their past, but to me, I just see all the politicians and grifters looking on hungrily like "Yeaaaaaah?"
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#4It's not that the past is not true. The past is true, what was reported is not. We know very clearly where the problem lies. The media is a lie. Headlines like "she'll never walk again" sells more than "she'll be fine".
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#5"History is not true. You can change history. The actual factual events are such a small part of the story. Everything else is interpretation."
OK, you've discovered post-modernism.
Next step is to avoid its pitfalls.
The actual factual events are infinite and one is exposed to a small subset to interpret. That does not mean you're allowed to make up, distort, and selectively ignore facts to suit whatever narrative you'd like to push. You need to construct the narrative in good faith, based on the best possible set of facts you're exposed to, and adjusting it when you're exposed to new facts.
Unless you want to organize a cult or a totalitarian regime, in which case go as crazy as possible with the narrative. People love it.
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#6The past is not true . . . but self-help author Derek Sivers is?
Somehow I'm not as convinced as he is that it was a really good thing to break someone's spine years ago because he was a teenager who didn't follow road signs.
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#7Would there not be some police investigation and possibly prison time if you recklessly caused such a serious accident?
I’m not sure how this misunderstanding could occur for so many years.
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#8"History is not true. You can change history. The actual factual events are such a small part of the story. Everything else is interpretation." OK, you've discovered post-modernism. Next step is to avoid its pitfalls. The actual factual events are infinite and one is exposed to a small subset to interpret. That does not mean you're allowed to make up, distort, and selectively ignore facts to suit whatever narrative y…
History is absolutely true, factually true at that. Facts are sometimes hard to come by, heck some facks of modern history are still classified, but that does not give people carte blanche to make up stuff as they go...
Like yeah, he was in an accident, media misreported it. Thing is so, how comes he, and the women, never knew who was at fault? Insuramce sure did some investigation as did police. Not knowing the facts, and coming to conclusions based on feelings, is the problem. But it doesn't mean history is wrong...
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#9Would there not be some police investigation and possibly prison time if you recklessly caused such a serious accident? I’m not sure how this misunderstanding could occur for so many years.
Because history is true, stories on the other hand can be totally made up.
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#10The past is not true . . . but self-help author Derek Sivers is? Somehow I'm not as convinced as he is that it was a really good thing to break someone's spine years ago because he was a teenager who didn't follow road signs.
I am not a fan of self help stuff, but I think that’s a somewhat uncharitable reading of the article; I don’t think he was implying that it was “good” to break someone’s spine.
I think it was saying that it’s very easy to convince yourself of something much worse than reality. He felt guilty because he thought he ruined a woman’s life forever, he felt immense guilt over that, when in reality the woman mostly recovered, not that it was good the accident happened.
I thought The idea is that a slight misunderstanding of the can have a severe “compound interest rate”.