Keeping track of history - Let's deal with 'history being written by the victors'

[ZazietheBeast]

Looking back at the insanity of recent years, with 2016 and 2020 being nutty.

SJW movement, the 2016 elections, the Wu-Flu plandemic, the martyrdom of Saint Floyd and the subsequent steal, its going to be a given that any history books shoveled up today will definitely be left leaning and paint those events favoring globohomo at large.

The question now is, anyone who is compiling and archiving a timeline of events? Because any newcomer on the internet is going to be shoveled with shill garbage and be redirected by gogol and youtube immediately. And wikipedia has long since been compromised.

And I remember the online historical media being so corporatized that at one point I considered Encyclopedia Dramatica to be a good place to get an honest opinion on events.

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[Ultrapenguin]

Eh, there's always been political biases in history, you always have to sort of read between the lines and compare different accounts of events in order to get an idea of how something really transpired.

Plus personally I don't even feel like things have been that nutty; they're weird because we're paying attention and are more aware of it, but in terms of objective changes to lifestyle it's not like anyone's come to my place to try to draft me or pillage my food stores or something. Covid was basically the only thing that really crossed the screen into reality, and if you shrugged and tried your best to ignore the hysterics even that wasn't a big deal in practice.

People survive, operate, and develop a fairly informed outlook on life just fine while paying attention to virtually none of it, any newcomer to the internet is better off trusting their gut and learning how to detect bias/how to infer rather than basically becoming an unhinged A&N user or expecting it all to be spoon fed to them.