Along the years a problem has come into our society, a crisis has invaded the whole world. It is not hard to recognize this problem but Keith Windschuttle does an excellent job in clarifying it in our minds.
The problem he identified was how the telling of history was becoming disturbed by the subjective approaches of many literary writers and sociologists.
No longer does history give objective information on the essential events of life but instead it provides any person with the opportunity to share his/her ideals and perspectives leaving the truth within a limited view.
These so called historians lack empirical thought and use language in order to construct obscure theories and confuse their audience.
This kills the integrity of history and submits everything to simple relativism and individual analysis.
But there are many ways of looking at this issue, Windchutttle clearly states his opinion along with many other writers and thinkers but evidently he is not supported by every other writer or historian.
Many others think that this is a process of development in writing that provides a wider perspective for the reader for it is considered impossible for a writer's personal opinion not to be present in his writings.
But that is definitely not the problem; it is not that writers include their opinion in their writings; it is that they include it as if it was the core reality of history.
They do not confirm that it is indeed their view but convince the reader that it is the only view.
With a very promising sense of determinism and subjective ideals they manipulate history and cage into a sad disruption of truth.
It almost seems that objectiveness does no longer exist, absolute truth is nothing more but a consolation for those confused and suddenly everything is questionable and told in thousand of different ways that turn our view of reality into a cloudy image of illusions.
Personally I believe that Windschuttle is right in most of his thoughts, I think people have finally realized the power of manipulating words and books, it is with these instruments that humans are given life and they can be used in positive and negative ways.
What is History? So, what is History? ... Sometimes the stream was filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing such things as historians usually record, while on the banks behind them, unnoticed by the historians, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs and write poetry (just doing the things people do). ... History Doesn't Change. ... History is a personal subject. ...
The Paiute Indians have history with these giants that they called the Si Te Cah (Paulides). ... He wrote a book called "The Wilderness Hunter," and it is said to be the first written account of Bigfoot killing a human (Glen). ... If killing a Bigfoot would be like killing a human being, then capturing one is the only way to get a specimen for scientific study (Gaffron 93). ...
In Andre Dubus, "Killings"," a man is faced with seeing his son's murderer all through the town his wife and him reside in. ... The struggle between grief and anger is obvious in the short story, "Killings." ... But this does not mean killing another man, someone else's child is a plausible thing to do. ... "He was making with my wife"" (Dubus, pg.102, Killings", The Compact Bedford Intro to Literature). ... The story is titled "Killings"," which is a perfect fit. ...
In response to the Hebron killings, two Arab suicide bombers blew up Jewish buses in northern and central Israel. ... In August 1998 terrorists detonated a car bomb in the town square of Omagh, killing 28 people. ... F. 1913 History of Nations vol.12. ... The Outline of History .1. ... The Outline of History vol.3. ...
" (Lindqvist) History proves otherwise, genocide has been a part of German military action before the Holocaust began in 1933. ... What other forces besides imperialism influenced the how Hitler came to killing six million Jews in 12 years? ... Benito's dictatorship inspired Hitler which allowed him to masterfully take over German politics changing history forever. ... This acceptance of the Jewish scapegoat made it possible for Hitler's racial cleansing, justifying the killing of six million Jews with fear of enemies within. ... History is a way to understand our future and...
American History X is a message movie that portrays how hatred and racism create cycles of violence. ... The shocking opening scene is a flashback to Derek killing two black teens attempting to steal his truck. As the movie jumps to current day, the audience soon learns that Derek served three years in prison for voluntary manslaughter for killing the two black teens. ... As punishment for submitting an essay on Hitler's Mein Kampf for an assignment on a civil rights leader, Principal Sweeney ordered Danny to attend a daily history seminar with him entitled "American History X&...
Throughout history, many countries have revolted against their rulers for independence. ... This meeting was eventually called the "Tennis Court Oath" and was very important to French History. ... He believed that the mass killings of The Terror were necessary for the French to have a revolution. ... The Revisionist theory beats the Neo-Conservative Revisionist theory because it was more than just killing. The revolution started off without all the killing and was doing just fine. ...
It come from the Greek words for 'good' and 'death', and is commonly called mercy killing. ... The history of legal "loopholes" is not a cheering one. ... The pro-euthanasia movement cheerfully hands the dirty work of the actual killing to the doctors who by and large, neither seek nor welcome the responsibility. ...
