The main events in human history

[fela fan]

I like that, fela. It really made me laugh.

you're welcome mate.

 

[Yetman]

JonH rising from the ashes of Snorbury and starting serious threads (although I preferred snorbury’s lunacy tbh )

 

[kyser_soze]

The lunacy is never too far away tho...

 

[weltweit]

You seem to entirely agree with me. The picture of history that you paint is the one that i understand to be the case, and accordingly the big criminals that they are that predominate the books and history records. My use of the word 'should' tried to point out what i actually would prefer history to be about. Ie, ordinary people, not those who in some way claim the ego-ridden title of 'unordinary'.

But ordinary people have always tried their best to get on with their lives perhaps avoiding the pitfals and diseases of their generations, trying not to be drafted for the navy or being hired as long bowmen for Agincourt.

Their history, as in their eyewitness report from their time, is certainly interesting and adds to the depth of understanding of what it meant to be alive at that time.

I am not saying that the history of ordinary people be omitted but in many ways it is harder to collate into a list than the history of significant events and prominent people.

 

[gorski]

Well I think that part of gorski's freedom is communication based - we've spent an awful amount of energy over history working on ever faster and more portable means of storing and sending information, and it's free flow seems to be a requirement of free peoples...

Sure, knowledge has the potential to liberate, as it's inclusive, which explains why in hierarchical, exploitation and dominance based societies there are many "forbidden" books... [whole libraries, that is!] and why there are "inner" [the "elevated" lot] and "outer" [the "great unwashed" to whom we do not give all the "sacred/sacral/inner" knowledge] circles of "students"...

However, in the explosion of information age there is a problem of weeding out the rubbish from the essential and emancipating...

Thanx, FF!

 

[kyser_soze]

hierarchical, exploitation and dominance based societies there are many "forbidden" books

What would you say are the forbidden books in contemporary Western Culture?

and why there are "inner" [the "elevated" lot] and "outer" [the "great unwashed" to whom we do not give all the "sacred/sacral/inner" knowledge] circles of "students"...

Yeah, agree with that one...

BTW, got that reference to doubt and uncertainty yet?

 

[gorski]

Modernity has more strands than one. Ergo - briefly and crudely - it is possible to have some elements of exploitation and domination built into the legal, economic etc. structures but also have the structures opposing them and working towards the Emancipation of Humanity. So, not straight forward.

Pre-Modernity, as in sur-real Socialism, for instance, is straight forward: it doesn't have different, equally "legitimate" strands, so they lock them "naughty books" up. Our colleagues in former East Germany, for instance, volunteered to guard such forbidden libraries in order to read Marcuse and co.

Btw, did you get mine?

 

[fela fan]

However, in the explosion of information age there is a problem of weeding out the rubbish from the essential and emancipating...

Thanx, FF!

Deserved mate.

Weeding out the rubbish is a skill... easily developed i think.

 

[kyser_soze]

Btw, did you get mine?

Hell yeah