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Tip #6 Your Religion and History
Feb. 19th, 2015 08:17 pmI promised another 1984 reference, so here goes. "He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past."
It's tempting for a number of reasons to rewrite the past. One of the most obvious reasons being to control people. Other reasons include seeing oneself or those one identifies with in a positive light, seeing others in a negative light, and just plain philosophical comfort.
Not only is it tempting, it's easy to do. People rewrite history all the time, often without even being aware that they're doing so. Memory, itself, is more reconstruction than recall. One of the easiest ways to fall into that trap without even realizing it is to have a narrative all set up and then organize the facts accordingly.
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It's tempting for a number of reasons to rewrite the past. One of the most obvious reasons being to control people. Other reasons include seeing oneself or those one identifies with in a positive light, seeing others in a negative light, and just plain philosophical comfort.
Not only is it tempting, it's easy to do. People rewrite history all the time, often without even being aware that they're doing so. Memory, itself, is more reconstruction than recall. One of the easiest ways to fall into that trap without even realizing it is to have a narrative all set up and then organize the facts accordingly.
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