The TRUTH About Historical Revisionism, Once and For All

[@metatronyt]

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[@talllake9805]

Ciao, è da un po’ che seguo il tuo canale e trovo i tuoi video parecchio interessanti, e dato il fatto che come me sei siciliano per metà volevo farti una domanda: cosa ne pensi tu dei neoborbonici?

[@archangelgabriel5316]

Hello Metatron my brother, keep the enlightenment going. God Bless. We got this.

[@LandofNodnuts]

Have you read 1984 Noble one ?

[@MrFuzzyGreen]

Pro tip from the film industry sir, when we get reflections from pictures or even mirrors on set, we alter the angle of reflection usually by angling the picture up by putting something behind the frame at the bottom. Just a small rolled up ball of tape or anything really. It will hold, and your ringlight won't feature. The other option is to take the glass out but that's a better solution for unreal life on set, not the home and office.

[@LegionTacticoolCutlery]

I can no longer watch any show when they distort historical truths on TV shows, documentaries, and movies. It's no longer believable or entertaining. I rather chew on sawdust.

[@AMDACER1]

My grandma told me that no matter what people say. That cleopatra was an argonian lizard.

[@TextBro]

Wait, was she the lusty maid?

[@yungmalaria]

We wuz hist n shit

[@vedymin1]

And then Metatron came to you and said: "Is this how you honor the sixth house and the tribe unmourned ?". X)

[@cyberedge881]

Well hey, that's like your truth.

[@JCTheSniper15]

Based grandma.

[@hapa7791]

I think we need to have the similar standard for historical dramas. Slippery slope is real. I can’t believe how many people take TV for real.

[@MyMomSaysImKeen]

Absolutely. Europeans rewrote the history of Romans & Greeks in their plagiarized arts & history , and as a consequence most people don't know they are of Australian Aborigini & Inuit Eskimo descent respectfully.

[@navelpicker]

It's a real problem for an unenlightened society, where people are getting their info from TV. There is no doubt that the Netflix "documentary" has emboldened many, and has added to the misconception of actual history.

[@CommanderRedEXE]

​@@MyMomSaysImKeen I sincerely hope this is satire or sarcasm.

[@ianmacdiarmid1249]

​@MyMomSaysImKeen you're either a troll or the very kind of person this video is about

[@bigguy7353]

As a student of Aristotlean logic, let me make a small correction. The slippery slope is indeed a logical fallacy, and it being "real" or "unreal" is not the true state of it's nature. It is, in fact, one of the few that have a clearly defined exception. The slippery slope is committed (not real or unreal) when you simply claim A leads to Z. However, if you can show a causal link between A and B, B and C, C and D, et cetera, all the way to Y and Z, the fallacy is non extant. We've seen A to B, B to C, et cetera, in real time over the last 25 years. The fact is, the slippery slope in this case IS NOT real, as the fallacy has not been committed. Rhetorical, I understand, but I thought you'd appreciate a deeper dive into that.

[@carlettoburacco9235]

In an interview several years ago, an Italian historian said something that I think is absolutely perfect for this moment: "Every historian must be a revisionist, in the sense that if new data and proven information become available, history can be changed or rewritten. Rewriting history for political, religious or social reasons is not revisionism: it is simply an ugly distortion of science."

[@mayurisama3003]

Barbero :)

[@Windrake101]

I wouldn't dismiss that as "simply". An act of potentially great evil, perhaps.

[@Celisar1]

I disagree: Rewriting history with an agenda and for a certain purpose is the definition of revisionism.

[@mayurisama3003]

@@Celisar1 yes that's textbook revisionism. A lot is lost in the translation from Italian to English. Barbero was using the term revisionist with the purpose of inciting reflection and critical thinking. It's a rather boomer way of talking, especally among old school Italian professors, but I swear, Barbero is a really good teacher.

[@darthnihilusthebestsith]

Magister Barbero

[@tricaurelie]

As an archaeologist, I couldn't agree more with what you say. We have to fight this nonsense with everything we have. Good job!

[@gagamba9198]

Keep up the good fight.

[@benoitmetail8727]

but there is a LOT of forgery in history but you ''historians'' never speaks about it, why???

[@letsdothis9063]

When I was an anthropology and archaeology student (decided that I wasn't cut out for it after two and a half years. Lol) I had some professors that would give very easily read eye rolls and funny looks when they had to teach us some PC revisionist crap. Unfortunately, I also had some professors that embraced and promoted that garbage.

[@coleparker]

As a retired archaeologist myself, I totally agree with you , and Metatron Good Job.

[@coleparker]

@@letsdothis9063 Well, I made a career being an archaeologist. It is not the easy row to hoe. Unfortunately, Anthropology/Archaeology being a social science you sometimes have professors who like to kowtow, or have to do so to diversity programs in the institutions they are teaching at.

[@EliasGraves]

I studied English literature in college in the 80s. At that time, even my leftist professors knew that it’s wrong to judge the past based on our current day sensitivities. The change that’s occurred during my lifetime is astounding and decidedly unacademic.

[@lindgrenland]

You'd be fucking petrified if you knew what goes on at universities now

[@YelFlux]

​@@lindgrenlandhahahahahahs

[@tiergeist2639]

Coukd explain this in detail why all this happens but censored...

[@anasevi9456]

The amount narrative shaping in western culture is now staggering. Case in point; evacuation from Kabul was objectively a vastly worse humiliation with far more tragedy and death than the fall of Saigon, but you sure wouldn't know it given after a few weeks our media forgot it even happened. It's not just woke stuff, it's flipping everything and all these bastards pulling the levers know how to do is double down.

[@elseggs6504]

​@@anasevi9456 Russia will lie, China will outright prohibit its people from accessing certain info. The West will simply shut up, knowing that some other event or celebrity trivia will be the next focus

[@rhysdbooth]

Archaeologist here (15 years under my belt). I have seen this revisionism first-hand. If events (you use the Bastille as an example) are recorded by people close to or directly related to the event, this was news when written rather than a document intended for future generations. It's the same as current news. If I can not trust what I see on the news as fact or fact-based by journalists, then anything stated can not be relied upon, and all communication is a fabrication (not a rabbit hole I wish to go down). Creating issues for future generations who will look at our information, our current affairs, and our interpretations of them and state that it is 'one truth'. Try telling journalists their articles and reports are a version of the truth rather than a fact-based assessment. Admittedly bias and political persuasion can give multiple interpretations of the same event, conservative media vs liberal media. But a balanced person can look at all sources of the same event and gain an understanding of the facts because, for the most part, several points of the event, regardless of the media sway, will be similar. A prudent example is Octavian's victory over Marc Antony; we know how it happened, as all sources agree; we should, until/ if other evidence is revealed, should be treated as factual. However, the interpretation of why the split occurred and more minor nuances are debated due to opposing historical views. A historian's preview is to show both historical interpretations and give further insight and understanding using hindsight; rather than simply creating a new narrative.

[@Sephiroth144]

Or the differing records of the Battle of Red Cliffs (Chibi) as presented in the various biographies in the Records of the Three States (SGZ); the overall themes and general facts are mostly agreed upon, but the perspectives are shifted depending on victor vs defeated, and even between various officers on the "same side" claiming glory or blaming certain factors for the way the events transpired.

[@gaylehudson7267]

Have you seen where they found a lot of time capsules in the bases of the statues they tore down in 2020? Notice they stopped tearing them down when they found real time recorded history. I think, being an archeologist, you know about it.

[@rhysdbooth]

@@gaylehudson7267, I most likely don't come from the same part of the world. Capsules in statues are not ubiquitous across the globe.

[@rhysdbooth]

@@Sephiroth144 Exactly, all those details should be presented.

[@spacewater7]

There's many more than 'both' sides of a historical event to collect, collate, compile and reconcile. Don't see things as too monochromatic, as suggested by another comment. In the article breakdown, it seems to me that the historian was specifically distancing himself from his own job, because the purview of a historian is to compile evidence of facts. He seemed to be trying to obfuscate what his own job is supposed to be though - perhaps he's trying to confuse his employers sufficiently that he can start writing historical fiction instead and still draw a paycheck from them? 🤡

[@carloscastro1476]

"History is not politically correct in its very nature and it doesn't care if it offends" what a great quote!

[@yonghominale8884]

Its also blatantly wrong. History serves whoever writes it.

[@IsThisThePrizeIveWaitedFor]

@@yonghominale8884 didn’t realize this needed to be said. History is written by the victors. I’m sure US history would look very different if written by Native Americans.

[@ssteel]

History is politically correct though. You are assuming history is the truth when in reality it is impossible to 100% verify historical accounts unless we had a time machine. A good example are Roman historians who are often unreliable for political reasons.

[@ryanjenkins8832]

It isn't, it's someone muddying the water so they appear deep.

[@ВсеславВсеволодович]

@@yonghominale8884 "History serves whoever writes it." no facts is just facts

[@ds82wrestling]

Powerful message. The consequences of losing history, of losing what we've learned is so much more than the consequences of getting canceled on social media.

[@benoitmetail8727]

Then ask yourself why is mainstream historians or academics keep saying Slavery is a white phenomenon? if they are so believable and trustable. They lies too just like the rest of the world, they are not more nobles than anybody else and they do mistakes too.

[@ndr226]

We are living in a paradox where technology is rapidly advancing while the average person doesn't know basic geography and history.

[@BrightWulph]

And people are afraid or too lazy to do their own research, even though information is just a simple google search away. 😅

[@bnine6669]

@@BrightWulph for fucking real!! It drives me crazy seeing people fall for the same BS lies I fell for 20 years ago in regards to history being “whitewashed”. I diligently studied world history for 15years and slowly learned how absurd a lot of these crack pot theories are, and if the west did rewrite/whitewashed history for their benefit, they did a piss poor job of it.

[@bohemianhh]

The technology is being used to keep people ignorant of the truth through censorship and punishment of truth-tellers.

[@anastasiya256]

It’s not a paradox… technically, that word means something else… but it is definitely sad and dangerous. We know how to do a lot of technically advanced stuff, but we don’t bother to investigate the why much.

[@gtmafiaa]

​@@BrightWulph funny you say that when the moment you loook into the history of the Egyptians the Greeks thought they were black the French also thought the same historian Diop debated over the case and put current Egyptologist at the time to shame but its always history is what we say idc what you found or think.

[@tomas.8711]

Beautiful and brilliant articulation of a crucial point: "There is no 'my' truth or 'your' truth, there us only THE truth." The fact that this was so well-spoken by an Italian man in perfect English is doubly impressive! Truly, the Metatron has spread his wings!

[@metatronyt]

Thank you Rick I appreciate

[@calus7958]

​@@metatronyt Then you should go after Religion. They are the first "My Truthers". Yet you don't. You go after Historical Inaccuracies involving gay and black people. Why not tackle the Religious Historical Inaccuracies since that seems to have done way more damage to history than anything "Wokeness" has done.

[@meduseld6610]

Truth exists bothin within and without. You must find the patterns that are in dialogue between the self and the Universe to glimpse it. If you keep weaving the through-lines in these patterns back and forth, you may order the Mind to see these Many'd Truths revealing The Truth. Unfortunately due to the nature of the modern age, so many of us are led to revile the Outside World around us, where the Unseen Truth exists. And through phones and many types of media, we are ever able to disappate and dissolve ourselves into these pornographically Many'd half-truths we find there, that can only exist within Ourselves. Fostering a love for our false self-created realities, fragmented souls falling into smaller and smaller echoes of Ourselves. A Dialogical being made Monologue, until it brings Spiritual Death as an insurmountable weight that only Physical Death can shift, or so it feels.

[@andrew_owens7680]

@@metatronyt That is ignoring that all history exhibits bias. History only has value when informed by archaeology and context. For example, I grew up in the shadows of Civil War statues. I always thought that those "heroes" of the Confederacy were put there during the Civil War. It was only later I learned that they were placed in every Southern city during the 1920s at the height of KKK power. History shouldn't come from a single source, whether that is movies, films or books. For that matter, anyone who reads a single book on any subject and thinks they know that subject is an ignoramus.

[@timl9724]

@@andrew_owens7680 perception and conveyance of reality has bias, but there is still only one truth. Nothing is being ignored by such a claim, rather you are doing what so many do, taking the truth that there are different perspectives as proof that there is not a single truth Acknowledging that there is only one truth doesn't mean that one only considers one source. The fact that you make this connection is proof that you didn't even pay attention to this video, let alone what millions of others say and write on the subject. YOU are the one obsessed with a single source, that source being YOUR truth, aka YOUR fantasy, the one you made out of thin air..

[@chrissymc886]

My grandmother told me, no matter what they tell you in school, Henry VIII was a loving husband.

[@ComradeCommissarYuri]

He really loved his axeman 😂

[@hellybelle5]

Surely he was just misunderstood... Lol

[@frankd5426]

only at the start of each marriage. it was all downhill after the wedding night...........

[@zan4336]

He kinda was. Just not to the wife 💀

[@godemperorofmankind5874]

Did they even represented her correctly? No. She was originally the Royal cum dumpster, If you catch my drift.

[@yamitsukikarasu8857]

The rise in historical revisionism brings me back to when I read 1984. I feel like I'm watching an orwellian nightmare come to life.

[@woosgan9868]

"2+2=5"

[@ektran4205]

read the alexandr solzhenitsyn short story live not by lies

[@amir071]

I experienced 1984 to the full extent, in 1984, in Socialist Communist Yugoslavia

[@Spacey3000]

It feels like it because that's what's happening

[@Beer_Dad1975]

How many lights are there?

[@hanagomikusohana9118]

"In London, Winston Smith is a member of the Outer Party, working at the Ministry of Truth, where he rewrites historical records to conform to the state's ever-changing version of history. Winston revises past editions of The Times, while the original documents are destroyed after being dropped into ducts known as memory holes, which lead to an immense furnace." Nineteen Eighty-Four NOVEL (Orwell) Source Wiskypedia

[@mynameisnobody5295]

Homage to Catalonia (1938) is one worth reading by George Orwell.

[@kellysouter4381]

I actually thought that was real for a moment. It does sound like something that might really happen

[@johnnydjiurkopff]

'you got a 27B/6 for that, yeah?' Oh wait, that's a different Orwellian nightmare we're simultaneously living through.

[@MM62442]

We better keep our paper copies of old books because they are being revised too.

[@barbarossarotbart]

@@MM62442 You really should, because they've already started to rewrite books because the original author used words which are considered racist today.

[@bosunbill9059]

Believing multiple truths, especially when they contradict, is the textbook defination of Doublethink from Orwell`s 1984

[@andrew_owens7680]

So then, believing a serial adulterer was chosen by God to rule America? Imagining that a withdrawal from a major conflict where there are 13 American casualties and 0 MIAs is the biggest military disgrace in history? Thinking that not paying our bills and announcing that we won't and losing our good standing as a payer will be less expensive to the country with the world's standard fiat currency than incurring debt? Thinking that George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were abolitionists? Thinking that the Civil War was fought over states rights and nothing to do with slavery? Yeah, I see a lot of that. That's why I required my kids to read both "1984" and "Brave New World", our alternate futures. So far, I see a country that wants to reelect a president who said his father was born in Germany when it is public knowledge that he wasn't as more "1984" than "Brave New World".

[@timl9724]

The extremists are trying to ban that book. I keep tabs on communists (and other similar "woke" extremists). If you go to one of their KZbin channels, they absolutely loathe and demonize Orwell. I would have had no idea how bad it is, if I didn't read their nonsense. Sometimes I even comment on their channels, and they lash out at me, asking why I'm even on there commenting. Their insular fantasy world does not allow for difference in thought, which is one advantage reasonable people have over them. We can know what they're up to, but they only imagine what we may be up to. Our only real problem is complacency. Theirs is total ignorance.

[@jasoncox5263]

Orwell was giving us a warning and they used it as a textbook.

[@albusplaustrum06]

“We have always been at war with Eastasia.”

[@TheCaniblcat]

@@jasoncox5263 Yes but they prefer to used books by Ayn Rand as a guideline. I remember my GF's ultraconservative brother-in-law praising Ayn Rand's works and how "true to life" they were.

[@danielway886]

I'd rather be hated for speaking the truth than loved for spreading lies. Great video as always Metatron.

[@Zionswasd]

Damn, words to live by. That hit hard, I was just kicked from an online community for sharing Metatron's video that ancient greece wasnt an lgbt paradise, and im homosexual and wished it was true before I watched the video and researched it, but like, damn how are you that dedicated to lying abt ppl's history just to circlejerk eachother for your sexuality, especially when that lying is offensive to ppl who cherish that history and those who cherish historic truth.

[@satanofficial3902]

No one likes me because i refuse to tell you what you want to hear. Sob... sob.. simper simper whimper...

[@satanofficial3902]

To make a long story much, much shorter... you she entity lifeforces (including she entity lifeforces existing in XY DNA template bodies) only see and hear what you want to see and hear. More specifically... you she entity lifeforces (including she entity lifeforces existing in XY DNA template bodies) only see and hear what you want to see and hear in accordance with your Personal Opinions which give you warm fuzzies feel-good endorphin/dopamine/whatever kickback rushes. Drug addict much? Personal Opinions that instantly and automatically replace any and all actual facts because it's your Personal Opinion that your Personal Opinions do. That what you believe in so fervently is total nonsense? You don't care because you already have your... Personal Opinions...

[@Zionswasd]

@@satanofficial3902 Get treatment for schizophrenia man, or learn better english, you seem like you maybe kinda have something smart to say but cant say it and its only coming out as nonsense.

[@bobSeigar]

​@@satanofficial3902 We now have medication to help with Schizophrenia by the way.

[@DarkAryen]

In a world of ever-changing, force-fed ideologies and lies, defending the truth no matter what is the stuff heroes are made of. I can't love this video enough! Elegant discourse, masterful argumentation. Yes, hold the line!! The very foundations of humanity are at stake.

[@metatronyt]

Thank you 🙏

[@MASTEROFEVIL]

100th like

[@carmenpeters728]

People don't watch movies to find their ideological beliefs. Those beliefs start in the family.

[@benoitmetail8727]

@@carmenpeters728 not today.... you have a very old way to see things... Think about it... how much time do you think kids pass with their families these days?, they sleep 8 hrs, goes to school another 8 hrs, play with their friends or video games and pass a lot of time on their phones....... and you still believe it's coming from the family? this is so ridiculous... Are you a LGBT activist or what?

[@NuiYabuko]

​@@benoitmetail8727 You are aware it takes many years before kids go to school?

[@maidenofiron]

Honestly, the fact that you don't sugarcoat history is why I like your channel so much.

[@asage6223]

this guy is a joke and talking about truth please.

[@squidvis]

​@@asage6223 Stay mad and learn English my friend.

[@BizarreM]

@@asage6223 Elaborate

[@IgnoreMeImWrong]

@@asage6223 I agree with the other response, please elaborate on your response.

[@joedoe7041]

@@asage6223 come on "sage", elaborate. or are you the joke.

[@keithdean9149]

With the 2+2=4, I remember some mathematician tried to claim that was not necessarily true. He argued that in a closed system, in which you round to the nearest whole number, you could have 2+2=5. As an example 2.3+2.3=4.6, rounding to the nearest whole number the sum would be 5. All I could think was, you are changing the question in order to get the answer you want.

[@thehaloofthesun7174]

Mathematician here... He is sort of right, unfortunately. But math is a special exception because math is the science of describing all realities. What do I mean by that? You generate ANY ruleset you want, and then use that ruleset to prove what is or isn't true under that ruleset. These rulesets are used by you all the time, without knowing; they're called axioms. Axioms, by their very nature, cannot be proven. For example, you cannot prove something like 2+2 = 4. You can only do so when you specify exactly what + means, and exactly what = means. Which we do all the time. For example, equality is usually not an axiom in real numbers, but is defined as the conjunction of two other axioms, >= and = b and a = and = and

[@nimmha6708]

@@thehaloofthesun7174 You wrote all that but 2 + 2 is still 4.

[@nimmha6708]

@@thehaloofthesun7174 If I have 2 apples and ADD 2 apples, I have 4 apples. Wtf are you talking about when you say " For example, you cannot prove something like 2+2 = 4. You can only do so when you specify exactly what + means, and exactly what = means. " I don't have to "specify" what + means. Or what = means. It's basic ADDITION. Do you think men can get pregnant too?

[@tuehojbjerg969]

@@nimmha6708 only if you use the mathematically system that say so

[@humblemarty]

That still leads to a recipe for disaster kind of like forgetting the baking powder in an American Biscuit.

[@WisdomThumbs]

Ten years ago everyone agreed “whitewashing was crap, let’s have less of that.” But now it’s okay if reversed? It’s the most forced elastic trend I’ve ever seen.

[@dorugoramon0518]

Because it was never argued in good faith. (over half the accusations of whitewashing were about fictional characters and some of the changes were supported by the original authors). It only goes one way. Just another shifting of the overton window taking advantage of people being too trusting.

[@midnightsnack1306]

I remember angry at Hollywood for their white washing in the past. Now they are black washing. They can’t get anything right.

[@mgntstr]

whitewashing never existed it is just a made up and utterly nonsensical term used to browbeat production studios into hiring your minority actors instead of ones they would prefer to work with, it's just business.

[@backintimealwyn5736]

@@dorugoramon0518 I agree, it was just a step to have "white people" feel guilty . Whan I say "white people" I mean the little people, the ones that never had any power over anything, sent to wars to die by the million, exploited in coal mines, sent to penitentiary colonies, starved to death , raped when maids, etc. these are the ones who are made to feel guilty by the very people who still benefit from the slave trade like Ursula Van der Leyen ,unelected president of the EU comission, descendant of slave owners and american cotton traders.

[@jong7513]

I think it's more like people who culturally benefitted from centuries of whitewashed history don't get to sue about the reverse. Reap the whirlwind!

[@LostSoulSearching]

I get so mad when people say its "My Truth"....I hate this phrase with a passion. Thank you Metetron!!! Never stop!!! This world needs honest people with integrity. 💯

[@snowyy.5275]

If it’s your truth, then keep it to yourself and hush - is what I’d say to them. They expose their opinions to the public but can’t take the backlash

[@williamberven-ph5ig]

Not to mention, "my pronouns".

[@alisonzunguze8183]

The core of the post modernist argument. And we let it happen.

[@ĀRYAN_GENE]

why do you get mad ? they'll believe what they want to .

[@ĀRYAN_GENE]

​@@snowyy.5275Jesus wouldn't be happy if they hear these words

[@Sidera17]

As someone who has decent experience in the medical field, this "my truth" garbage infiltrating history and humanities was horrific, but now as it encroaches on scientifically-grounded STEM professions as well, I shudder to think what fresh horror awaits society. Hold the line.

[@savvageorge]

The last few covid years are good examples of what happens when science gets taken over by politics.

[@cjohnson3836]

@@savvageorge vaccine denialism is nothing new.

[@beatnik6806]

I wonder how they would like my revisionism: Mansa Musa was actually a chirstian and white European dude who just travelled around Africa throwing money everywhere. I don't care about that European map from 1375 which shows him being black or some stupid paintings. Because my grandma always told me: no matter what they say, Mansa Musa was white and this is my truth. 🤣

[@d3vilmaycry25]

That's what I did, I was invited to a Gender Sensitivity training. As someone who's also in the medical profession who have years of experience as well as being aware of this woke, I had the overwhelming pleasure of grilling this so called "PhD" in Gender Studies by volley, upon volley of scientific and logical questions. Let's just say he had a very, VERY bad day.

[@Jsa460]

@@savvageorge Yeah it's been scary. People believe what some random on the internet or a footballer's celebrity wife has to say about it instead of certified medical personnel. Also STEM here and it is worrying how easily an echo chamber of people reinforcing false information can develop until it is the only "truth" they will accept and will not accept any questioning of it. (Remember people eating horse wormers because certain people promoted that it would stop them getting covid instead of sending them to hospital with ivermectin toxicity?)

[@t_c5266]

Rewriting history to swap out a culture is like saying "the culture we swapped in has nothing of merit on their own. Therefore we have to take the culture of another to be able to portray them"

[@Brightenikous]

Nah for corpos it's just "combine what people seem to like. LGBT? Vikings? Diversity?! Combine them all for maximum profits!!"

[@IchibanOjousama]

@T_ C indeed 100%

[@JPGotrokkits]

WotC publishing the new Lord of the Rings MTG card set portraying Eowyn and Aragorn as PoC. Never mind the afro-centric images of Hobbits, yes, Hobbits in the Shire, you know the place Tolkien specifically based on the Midlands of England. From the book he wrote as a replacement mythology for England.

[@hellomate639]

EXACTLY EXACTLY EXACTLY. "Black people, you have no culture. Look at how inclusive we are, you can also be white." Like, what the fuck. What complete ignorance to the utter majesty of Africa. Africa is like the heart of Earth. It's the ground of Earth. Africa is the continent where the soul can truly find rest in one's community. I also hate that black people are encouraged to use the n-word with one another as a "term of endearment." No. Fuck that. Fuck that entirely. If you are a human being alive on this earth, you descend from slaves and conquerors. If you're black and use the N word with other black people, my message to you is this: using a slur to indicate some sort of shared brotherhood that merely represents a history of slavery is beneath you. YOU ARE NOT THE RECENT PAST. Your existence is not defined by some recent bullshit. You are so much more than that. You are a child of God, and being a child of God also means that you are endowed with endless potential.

[@Leodachef1]

@@Brightenikous Not only that its a combination, those agenda driven political degenerates are now in almost every coorperation, they bring this nonsensical ideas into the pool of ideas and convince everyone that it would make a profit and is the right thing to do. The Ceo just thinks, fine if it resonates with public and could make a profit lets do it. Well how it all playes out we see today, all this events of extreme political agenda pushed into every culture medium like movies, series, advertisement, gaming etc etc. is failing massively, all thos coorperations lose alot of money. So the driving factor " lets do it because it brings money" seems not to work out. So they tried and hopefully the CEOs and money driven coorps see this and finally switch around, we can just hope.

[@savvageorge]

Plato also noticed this a few thousand years ago. The further society drifts away from the truth, the more it begins to hate those who speak it. Its also a sign that the society is approaching the end of its lifespan.

[@YelFlux]

Too dramatic ....but hope it's not true

[@amicableenmity9820]

@@YelFlux It's not dramatic, look at what happened near the end of Rome.

[@amicableenmity9820]

If it is near the end, who will take over? China is the worst case scenario for me.

[@YelFlux]

@@amicableenmity9820 you do have point

[@YelFlux]

@@amicableenmity9820 oh and thx for not insulting cause I have a different point of view ..... Nowadays this is rare

[@SebSenseGreen]

I corrected someone once on a fact they had wrong. I said that what they told me wasn't reality and not a fact. They responded to me with: "Well, I don't care, I prefer my reality." ... Never again.

[@R08Tam]

That's Trumpism

[@Stay_at_home_Astronaut81]

​@@R08TamStraight up.

[@Fatherofheroesandheroines]

History is dirty bloody and downright nasty. Yet it happened. We can't change things to a modern overly-sensitive view. Even changing just one part of history to fit your own views is pure evil.

[@Fantasyguy-079]

Its bad, but not pure evil. Pure evil is meant for the bottom of the barrel people in society who deserve a bullet in their skull. Changing history is bad, but not pure evil. Now, being a mega cooperation and purposely twisting history for a narrative can be seen as evil.

[@JoaoSoares-rs6ec]

Agreed

[@charlesc.9012]

The most important part is that all the nasty things were done by the same peoples. We have sinned, paid the price, and only then did we have modern comforts. If we erase the memory, we will quickly un-learn the lessons, and will have to pay again. We bought our history with rivers of blood, but we are now breaking perfectly good historical examples

[@JoaoSoares-rs6ec]

​@@Fantasyguy-079 it is pure evil, it is a unforgivable crime to humanity

[@HonestBottom]

The modern world really isn't any different 🙈

[@thewinner7382]

It isn't surprising that social engineers also want to engineer the past too.

[@maguffintop2596]

Not the first time this cabal has tried to alter, eliminate, confuse the histories of nations, people, cultures, religions, philosophy, creeds, etc.. But now this cabal has gone global.

[@sylvarogre5469]

George Orwell in 1984 "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."

[@varelion]

They adjust the past to their ideology. The woke cultists will educate young generations in their spirit. The mass will no longer know any alternative/real history. It's like the Chinese cultural revolution brainwash.

[@conorkelly947]

@@maguffintop2596 real subtle dog whistle my guy. why does it always come back to the same place with you losers

[@conorkelly947]

@@sylvarogre5469 now testify

[@SelinFitness]

"The only thing we learn from history is that we don't learn from history" - this comes to mind every time I run into people who are big fans of changing historical fact into woke non-sense.

[@ptolemyauletesxii8642]

What comes to mind when you run into people who are big fans of changing history fact into reactionary right wing nonsense? I'm assuming you are against all historical revision?

[@Mcsqw]

The worst thing with some of the surface level diversity nonsense like Netflix's Cleopatra documentary is that I would argue that it's the exact opposite of what the supposedly "woke" people claim to want to support. There's a rich and storied history of Black African civilisations and by ignoring them and race-swapping a Ptolemeic pharaoh instead, those true stories are continuing to be erased. It's like someone at Netflix sat down and thought "Well we want to be diverse to be down with the kids but there couldn't possibly be any great black African civilisations we could make a documentary about so we'll just cast a black woman as Cleopatra, and ta-da, diversity!" It's ridiculous and insulting and frankly it's also boring - we need yet another documentary about Cleopatra about as much as we need yet another documentary about Henry VIII - he had six wives doncha know! Black people don't need to be gifted historical figures from other races, because they have a history just as rich and beautiful as any other, why can't we have documentaries about them? That would truly be embracing diversity.

[@faerie5926]

It comes from both sides though, it's not exclusively a woke thing. Like the Lost Cause myth that right wing people in the South tend to spread, thankfully it's becoming less common though.

[@viperstriker4728]

@@faerie5926 I just googled Lost Cause myth, so I might be misunderstanding your claim. But isn't that an example of cherry picking? Ignore the slavery stuff which was the focus of the civil war and instead only talk about the states rights issues. But the states rights issues are historical facts too, with some individuals fighting for the south for only those reasons. The myth would be that the south as a whole was more concerned with states rights then slavery, correct? First I think there is quite a difference between this and the historical revisionism. As the Lost Cause myth as it is not making stuff up. It's siting evidence, but is wrong about how prominent those idea were. It's possible to do this in good faith and simply be wrong. But revisionism isn't based on evidence, and doesn't site any. It calls assumptions evidence instead, and is not possible to do in good faith. Second, I disagree that the Lost Cause myth is conservative. Certainly you could link it to the libertarians that fly the confederate flag (certainly right wing, but not conservatives). But it also comes from the leftists as an argument for why the US didn't fight a war against slavery. But again, I just googled it once, so I might be wrong about what the lost cause myth is entirely.

[@idon.t2156]

This is a different discussion.

[@mikepowell2776]

It’s a pity more people haven’t read Orwell’s ‘1984’. Thomas Sowell stated, ‘History is what happened, not what we wish had happened or what some theory says should have happened.’ There is a dangerous trend towards ‘presentism’, the judgement of past events by the standards (often of some discrete and recognisable group) of today. Often this is associated with the belief that everything is better now than in the past. Both standards thus believed will, of course, be different tomorrow. I think you’ve touched on this in past presentations. One minor point, “...” are inverted commas, not brackets. Excellent analysis though. Thank you.

[@GiorgioNobile-gk7qf]

"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past." you preceded me, I thought the exact same thing.

[@mrs.hancock4124]

@@GiorgioNobile-gk7qfWhoever controls the gold makes the rules. Whoever makes the rules controls the narrative. Whoever controls the narrative controls the minds of the masses.

[@NotTheStinkyCheese]

or people have red it and thought it was a manual with instructions to be followed ... (not sure if that's scary ...) I've only seen the movie version and it is very depressing to see analogs of the things in that become real. One only needs to look at how certain groups try to manipulate language in order to stop people from saying the 'wrong' things.

[@enightc]

Another big problem is that the So Called Culture war against Woke and Cancel culture by Conservatives is actually the ones that is pushing for Cancel Culture and Wokeness with their revision of history to fit their narrative. Florida , Ron Desantis just rewrote Black History to how Slavery benefited the Slaves, and how its the White Owners that should be repaid for their efforts. This is done by the Governor of Florida, so you can see how messed up it is.

[@DamienSteiner-om4of]

Love the work of Thomas Sowell. As for the illustrious Mr G Orwell let us hope that 1984 was a year & not a where we will find ourselves. All the best.

[@DarthChrisB]

The game Age Of Empires II (probably the first as well) had written on the box "Historical events shown in this game are not accurate". They didn't have to do it by law. But 25 years ago people still had some integrity and common sense. Now we absolutely need a law that all movies, games and shows need a disclaimer if they try to change the past. But such a law is dangerous in itself, as it gives power to an authority to what can be called the truth and what can't. The ideal solution, which is simply not being crazy, is not an option in the times we live in.

[@troybaxter]

That's something I have noticed too. Society has become a lot like that Jurassic Park quote, "[you] were so preoccupied with whether or not [you] could, [you] didn’t stop to think if [you] should." Just because you can get away with being absolutely amoral and a lying piece of shit, doesn't mean you should. And honestly, our problems are nothing but a byproduct of encouraging people to do away with basic morals and ethics. The law doesn't say you shouldn't lie, but ethically, we should not be lying to people nor trying to backstab them to gain a bit of power or wealth. Now we are at a point where we may need laws in place so we can behave like good people, but that is a road we should never go down unless we absolutely have to.

[@baconsarny-geddon8298]

Such a law would do more harm than good- It's basically the same thing as having a state-approved "Official Historic Truth"; Do YOU trust your government, to dictate exactly what that "REAL truth" is?!? Reality is that NOBODY knows with complete certainty the objective truth of who did what during 911, less than ONE generation ago,in a well-documented, highly technological era, in one of the wealthiest, MOST intensely-surveiled cities in the world... Figuring that stuff out, for events CENTURIES ago, to arrive at one specific "This DEFINITELY Happened" narrative for the Battle of Hastings, or the reign of Cleopatra, is a total lost cause (beyond a TINY HANDFUL of specific facts for each event, that can be known with any certainty... And even THOSE are often pretty questionable...) Better to just teach people that TV AND MOVIES AREN'T TRUTH... Even IF it's "based on true events" or a "historical recreation", and EVEN IF that is made by the very best historians, sincerely trying to be perfectly accurate, you are STILL watching something that's basically fiction, draped over a subjectively-chosen set of real historical sources (which MAY or MAY NOT be accurate, themselves). The problem is with the EXPECTATION that accurate reconstructions of specific events in history is even POSSIBLE (even in proper, academic secondary sources... Or even from PRIMARY sources, FROM that era; Is "KZbin Rewind 2018" an accurate depiction of 2018 KZbin? Is CNN or FOX News an accurate depiction of PRESENT DAY politics?) And expecting that accuracy from ENTERTAINMENT like TV, movies or video games multiplies the insanity of that expectation, by 1,000x. The deliberate re-writing of hiatory is bad... But it will ALWAYS happen, to a greater or lesser degree... The REAL SOLUTION is for viewers to KNOW that they can't expect PERFECT historical knowledge/accuracy ANYWHERE... but that tv and movies is the LAST place they can expect to see it [Better to just SURROUND people with outrageous, agenda-pushing propaganda, and accept that the dumb people will just believe/expect accuracy from that propaganda. While sensible people will reject ALL of it, until they can at least verify each SPECIFIC claim, from more reliable sources, if possible... Which is EXACTLY the system that every human ever, has inhabited....]

[@kidneykid]

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” ― George Orwell

[@secretname2670]

Literally 1984

[@energeticyellow1637]

​@@secretname2670 this but unironically

[@richhutchinson2934]

That's the second profound, ingenious quote JUST TONIGHT that I've read about that came from Orwell. I really need to read some of his works. I've been wanting to read 1984 for years now, I just wish I had the time!

[@Ar1AnX1x]

possibly 1985

[@secretname2670]

Liteally 1987

[@garywilliamson8740]

You know, that’s why I’ve started watching older documentaries on history. I feel like those are more faithful to the truth as opposed to those made nowadays being heavily influenced by the current political trend.

[@t_c5266]

we're leaving the era of absolute history. For the last couple hundred years you could see that historians, scientists, engineers, were all trying to get as close as they could to absolute truth in their respective fields. Find out exactly what is what. But now, its ceasing to matter what is what, and only matters what you perceive it to be. Sorry, perception doesn't hold up a bridge, get a rocket to space, carry out brain surgery, or change the colosseum.

[@redskyatnight123]

I'm like that with everything, fed up with the quite obvious pushed messages

[@cactiguide]

@DON'T VOTE FOR PEDRO!!! absolutely! Where are you watching it? I really should order the discs. I’d like to see it again. The doc on Gallipoli is also one I want to rewatch. But to the original point. I really am interested in the old west and the American Indian history, but good luck finding anything besides “poor Indians, white man bad”. There is a lot more to that history!

[@jamesgordon177]

@DON'T VOTE FOR PEDRO!!! amazing doco! the music at the start is amazing too bro.

[@CookieChacho]

​@@cactiguide I was bought the 11-disc box set of WAW about 10 years ago & am still going back to it now. Excellent documentary series. What's the Gallipoli doc you recommend?

[@camilohiche4475]

It's absolutely insane and schizophrenic that we live in an era where this basic essential self-evident stuff needs to be "debated" even against current "academics", let alone in deeply outlayed point by point video essay form.

[@benoitmetail8727]

yeah, and historians dont lie, right? you blindly trust the academics without questionning?

[@camilohiche4475]

@@benoitmetail8727 What exactly are tout implying? That hard evidence and proven facts reported by academics could in theory be completely fabricated? So, in other words, you can't really trust anything that hasn't been witnessed first hand by you or by very close people to you that you 100% trust, and outside of that you live a life where you're constantly second guessing if well established social structures and systems aren't lying to you?

[@riverdean7]

@@camilohiche4475 there is nothing wrong with questioning anything

[@qkdfaust29]

Demonetizing your channel was wrong. However that being said , the act of inflicting this unjust punishment on you had an amazing effect. Dude, YOU ARE ON FIRE ! Your speech is determined, clear, precise and accurate. Every moment you poured in this clip is like watching a master granite cutter at work . Every word is hammer blow, perfectly measured and timed to crack that ' stone'.

[@artstation707]

Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, as depicted in 'Abreujamen de las Estorias.'

[@octogonSmuggler]

That actually sounds really satisfyig to watch, though. I think I'm gonna go look up videos of master granite cutters now...

[@artstation707]

@@octogonSmuggler There's a granite style bust of Ptolemy X, Alexander I. Its nose and lips are chiseled away.

[@cedricleterme812]

@@artstation707 there are coins with the face of ptolemy x en he looks very greek

[@artstation707]

@@cedricleterme812 Coins? Coins? How long does it take to create a coin?????

[@duanemorgan5235]

"Truth is not what you want it to be. It is what it is. You must bend to its power or live a lie" - Musashi

[@theecapitan]

Brilliantly said. I’ve said this for a while to friends the illusion of your truth is harmful to the pursuit of actual truth. The fact that no conversation is allowed on certain things is a dangerous line of thought.

[@Mcsqw]

It is indeed. Extremism can come from even people claiming to be accepting of all, and nobody learns anything from an echo chamber. Championing diversity is a good thing, but not at the expense of the truth.

[@Viktors633]

As a bloke in his late 50s who only recently got into gaming (RPGs) i discovered you today via one of your videogame topic vids. This was so well articulated. I have loved ancient history all my life and it is so important to call out the folly of what is being"taught" today. When i first heard the term "my truth" being spouted by a politician 4 years ago i swear a chill ran down my back. The quote by Orwell which i am sure you know..."The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth" has never been more prescient. Most folks are understandably busy paying bills and bringing up their kids and do not see this creeping totalitarianism. All the best and cheers for speaking out 👍👍

[@yig_501]

right on what rpgs you playing or played talking like video game rogs table top rpgs?

[@Viktors633]

Witcher 3, Dragonage Inquisition, Skyrim, eldar scrolls, Fallout 4, A.C. Odyssey, A.C Origins. I played Mafia 1 and Dishonoured in between but i prefer the big open world stuff. Never played tabletop RPG but i do read Warhammer 40k. All the best.

[@yig_501]

@@Viktors633 witcher 3 is amazing the music alone is fantastic rdr2 as well

[@Viktors633]

So true, RDR2 is def on my list.@@yig_501

[@jasonhcloukey]

Brother, you are an absolute beast on the front-line of truth. Thank you for continuing your quest despite the enormous perils.

[@metatronyt]

Always. Thank you for your support

[@conm87]

People throw the term ‘racist’ out so regularly, that it has lost all meaning. It’s new meaning is “someone who doesn’t agree with MY feelings”.

[@troybaxter]

Same goes for bigot, terrorist, sexist, and various "phobias".

[@Thiborfirenz]

These days when i see or hear someone call someone else racist, bigot, etc i automatically assume that the person doing the shouting is those very things and the person being shouted at is innocent of them.

[@amandag5072]

My son's fiancee calls people racist whenever they say or do something that irritates or annoys her. She's in her early 20s, and I hope she will stop doing it. It's used as such a throw away term, that it doesn't have any meaning beyond 'you're annoying me'.

[@vilena5308]

Agreed. I literally heard someone comment "She is being racist towards me!!" They were both the same race, ethnicity and gender.

[@esraa_elbasha]

I must say I will find it hard to believe a black person speaking of racism especially after how much of bigotry and racism we received from them as Egyptians.

[@kubwell3856]

I hope you are still able to get joy and wonder from your work on all your channels. You seem to have such love and respect(as your fans do as well) for history and all it can teach us. And you are having to expend so much energy to stop the spread of dangerous misinformation.

[@eyesofthecervino3366]

Channels?

[@kubwell3856]

@@eyesofthecervino3366 I believe he has a second channel called metatrons Academy

[@eyesofthecervino3366]

@@kubwell3856 Hippity hoppity checking out that property. . . .

[@analogbunny]

There's actually a very good episode of Avatar: The Last Airbender on exactly this topic, where self-flattering historical revisionism had a very real impact on the moderb world, and Sokka had to take in multiple contradicting eyewitness accounts in conjunction with artifacts and physical evidence to try to piece together what likely happened. In a sense, "history" is just a crime scene investigation but centuries after the fact - and the amount of care, precision, and open-minded skepticism are needed for both.

[@ayviondenar3461]

Which episode was that?

[@mik6299]

@@ayviondenar3461 i'd say "Avatar Day"

[@irohdw6055]

There is also the episode where Aang attended the Fire Nation school and the teacher referred to the destruction of his people referred to as a battle, when it was actually an ambush against a defenseless population that had no military. By turning the event into a battle between armies the Fire Nation was able to give their evil actions a much greater sense of legitimacy.

[@Bunnidove]

One of the best "kid" shows ever.

[@neongenesisevangelion587]

There is also the episode where they attend the performance of a stage play based directly upon their own lived experiences and famously known exploits up until that point. Just done from the propaganda laden perspective lens of Fire Nation loyalists for an attendant audience of mostly patriotic Fire Nation subjects. With the retelling of their own stories being done in a way that while arguably mostly superficially accurate on certain irrefutable historical facts of the portrayed events. Still somehow manages to be an on the nose blatant character assassination/satirical mocking of the main heroes. Giving us a kinda jarring window into the delusional collective cultural psyche of the Fire Nation and its people.

[@henryblaylock2946]

I will fight for historical accuracy in cinema and media till I draw my last breath thanks for standing with me Metatron.

[@spellman007]

Stunning & Brave

[@PictureHouseCinema]

and include the accurate presentation of fictional characters and stories too. The woke manipulate all written material to push their agendas.

[@sniedendepoes]

Lol this fight is peanuts compared to what is happening outside on the streets. I don’t care about seeing Africans and muslims in some consumerist series, I care about those people making our countries unsafe

[@mjones4083]

& present "accuracy" .White people are being steadily erased from the media and ad campaigns .

[@HokkaidoHiguma-j3j]

Wow someone on the internet with actual common sense. What a rare thing this day and age. Definitely subbing.

[@metatronyt]

Thank you and welcome

[@kazearaki853]

Common sense has been the enemy of science ever since eternity and if "history" is aiming to become scientific, it too must throw away common sense in favor of crunching big data. Truth, whether singular or multiple - is irrelevant to science. The pursuit of science is not the pursuit of truth but the pursuit of approximation to reality, this is because truth is unattainable. Science is able to move forward because it abandons truth, whereas philosophers are still arguing in standstill futility to this very day about a meaningless word.

[@veracyning5572]

I am absolutely floored by this my friend. The wordless frustration I feel has been perfectly articulated. I'm actually very proud of us. ❤

[@metatronyt]

Thanks!

[@veracyning5572]

@SchizzieMaj I do love the look of the white marble. It's stark and clean and reveals the details beautifully. But the evidence suggests they used to be colorful so I have to accept that 😁

[@alihenderson5910]

@@SchizzieMaj Nobody has a problem with it, except the people who want to call other people, white supremacists. They invented a problem that doesn't really exist.

[@Grandwigg]

What can I say, but here here, amen and what was said at the end, hold the line.

[@rafaelecattonar1506]

​@@metatronyt I have a question for you. According to history does this ideology called multiculturalism work? I mean a society where people from different cultures, traditions and ideas are forced to live in the same place because all religions and societies are equal? Obviously, I'm not talking about countries like China, Russia or India that are multicultural societies, instead. I talk about Western countries. Furthermore, did you do a video about this topic? If not will you do it in the future?

[@ellielhessan]

"our present will be someone else's past" -Metatron I love this.. but when I think about it, I'm also sad because I know that in the future, they will look at this chapter of mankind's history and say, "look, people at that time tried to change things based on feeling instead finding truth. even "science" becomes weapon to empower their feeling, not to uncover the truth."

[@juniormint5065]

Historical accuracy is important to help bind us all together. Even if it’s bad, being able to agree on what happened is clearly important

[@j.langer5949]

A bit naive. Those who rule us are not interested in that. And no regime in history has ever attempted objectivity. Every regime (yes, even the so-called democracies in the West) rewrites and appropriates history in a way that suits it to achieve its goals.

[@juniormint5065]

@@j.langer5949 I never said it doesn’t happen? But a common history and accurate history is Mitch more unifying then a inaccurate one even if the accurate one has many bad spots

[@c.m.cordero1772]

Binds us to what?

[@j.langer5949]

@@juniormint5065 Unification in what direction and to what end?

[@stax6092]

Yeah, I don't argue with people by telling them they're wrong when I know I am right, I just don't have the wherewithal to defend my position or myself verbally no matter how hard I try. So I appreciate videos like this that can explain my position without getting confused or misspeaking. Thanks for these.

[@metatronyt]

My pleasure

[@BunjiKugashira42]

I had the same problem. It's hard arguing against someone who just invents their claims from thin air, because I don't make claims without facts backing them up. The important thing is to not fall into the trap of inventing your counter claims. Instead question theirs. Ask them for evidence. And remember: The burden of proof is on the person making the claim, do not let them try to reverse the burden of proof by asking you to disprove their claim. Proving something, or even just backing it up with facts, is a lot harder than just inventing shit. That's why you're having a hard time. While you're trying to defend your position with facts, the other person is just flinging shit to see what sticks.

[@callum105]

same here, im not the most charismatic person

[@ThatElephantSeal]

I cant remember what the principle is called, but basically its statement goes something like "Its ten times harder to unravel someones bullshit than it is to make it, and ten thousand times harder if its composed of half-truths."

[@tammychivese9765]

I understand you in all honesty, defending facts is more difficult then just making stuff up and I think that's why we should stand strong with facts. Cause the moment we falter, this belief that my truth is fact will continue and the worst part is that the next generation will have to bear this false fact.

[@asmoloverfr]

I just started watching you and you give off the vibes of a really kind person and I can't wait for more of your content, you're awesome :)

[@metatronyt]

Thank you very much

[@CommanderRedEXE]

Welcome, fellow Noble One! I hope you, too, enjoy your newfound path to learning history.

[@suezcontours6653]

@@metatronyt My QUESTION. And please answer. Why are people only mad NOW? When white Europeans have whitewashed history for centuries? Jesus wasn't white, Egyptians weren't white and its perfectly left in tact for descendants to believe the lies of the dominant power of the West. Those are real double standards. People will let Europeans get away with this war crime of erasing history but as soon as black people step into the role, it's blasphemy. I can't take you seriously

[@The-Red-Pat]

@metatron this morning I was looking at the suggested videos from algorithm and realized I hadn't seen any of your videos suggested in a few days. Which is odd because I had been watching a lot of your videos lately. Then I searched through my list of subscribed channels to find yours and, lo and behold, I couldn't find you. I looked a second time through the entire list and sure enough, you were gone. So I searched your channel and was surprised to notice that I wasn't subscribed anymore. Just a coincidence or some sort of bug? Anyhow, I am subscribing once more. Down with lies and censorship. Truth shall always prevail!

[@diezelfunk]

It's not the fact that that Raff is a person who gets everything right all the time, but his willingness to look deeper into subjects that I've come to respect. And when any objective contrary evidence appears, he's willing to correct himself, and can stand his ground when facts are challenged by false claims. That amount of self respect and self awareness are commendable traits. Keep it up!

[@aleksmeetsworld6873]

I was trying to sleep, mate. Guess, we are here for another 20 minutes

[@skyleonidas9270]

lol me too

[@shelbyspeaks3287]

Sleep is white supremacy

[@Apost0345]

Same

[@albinoblacksheep7826]

Yeah even me...😂

[@videogamemusicrenditionsby7625]

Likewise, 22:15 over here 😂

[@Ganon999]

What puzzles me is out of all things a human being could be doing, especially those who are privileged aka Hollywood elites, the fact that the one single thing they decided put their effort into is rewriting or presenting history through a false lens is quite troubling. Like seriously, why choose that hill to die on? You literally can't change history, you can only misrepresent it, which is just vile in my opinion.

[@Blabbybike]

They change the past, so they can control the present, so they can destroy our future and control us.

[@ptolemyauletesxii8642]

Have you ever seen The Conqueror, with John Wayne?

[@surgeeo1406]

Payed to do it, is my guess. If you look into contemporary Soviet propaganda tactics, a few bells will ring. It doesn't matter about what do people argue about, what matters is to keep them arguing about anything.

[@FireOvRenewal]

If you change the perception you have changed "history". You haven't changed the events themselves, but you have changed its perception which has huge power. If the original written account was true to begin with.

[@lydiahood7725]

The Elite strive on conflict, they want the common people to turn on each others so they don't pay attention to all the bullshit they pull to empower themselves and make more profit, ultimately the answer to 'why' when it comes to the elite is always 'power & profit' and its not just the Hollywood Elite, its any Corporate Elite.

[@mmk749]

"...truth isn´t an opinion." You got my sub for this simple, but nowadays often overlooked truth.

[@jimmynaylor1759]

Magister, the truth is that this channel is...one of the best and most trustworthy history channels. Please continue to enlighten us.

[@tammychivese9765]

I needed this video, cause its draining arguing with someone making things up and claiming them to be true. Thank you and keep up the great work❤

[@lamwen03]

I've seen black actors playing major parts in some of Shakespear's plays. But they were just actors, they werent attempting to sell the idea that the originals really WERE black.

[@wanderingknight7777]

I missed the days when you could say "this person of color was picked because they were the best actor for the job." But no, more often than not, it's because of some agenda.

[@jesusofbullets]

@@wanderingknight7777 Bingo. Whenever a character is whitewashed, they’re doing it because said actor is well known and basically their own brand. Whenever a character is black washed, almost every time it’s for political reasons (with only a few exceptions).

[@laridd]

I love your channel! I graduated with a Master of Arts in History and I teach US History to Juniors. I also teach other classes college classes online. My very first lesson for my High School kids is that you have to be willing to change your mind if you get new information. I compare it to the Scientific Method. It's during the lesson on Competing Migration Theories. I lay out the reasons we know other ways people got here than the Bering Strait. I also love Subaltern History because we get to see information written by people who weren't the Great Men. Thank you so much!

[@Medievaltroubador]

Metatron is a brave man. He knows that speaking like this could cost him and yet he tells the truth! Much respect.

[@henkvananvers7990]

What cost are you talking about? Few angry tweets?

[@michaeldrinkard678]

@@henkvananvers7990 Cost? How about demonetization or even having his channel taken down? It's happened to people who said things not approved by the powers that be, even though it later was proven that the things originally said were actually true.

[@henkvananvers7990]

@@michaeldrinkard678 I would dare to say that the whole demonatizion thing only made his channel grow bigger wich he knew would happen. He is participating in the culture war, wich is very generous towards his numbers but is only creating a bigger divide. The 'brave' thing to do in my opinion is to simply create videos educating viewers about a historical subject. He is catering to the anti-woke people creating his own echochamber. I agree with what he says but at this point there is a trend that seems to me to be ill-motivated.

[@michaeldrinkard678]

@@henkvananvers7990 It seems to me that he was producing educational videos when he lost monetization. And he's not the only one that this has happened to. And without a lot of work by him and pressure from his supporters, he might not have gotten it back. Anyway, I can see that we aren't going to agree on this subject, so rather than take up further time and space on his post, I'll simply wish you well in your life, and adieu.

[@jasziegl8983]

​@@henkvananvers7990 no it isn't brave to ignore the destruction of history at the altar of evil woke men. It is brave to speak the truth to power, and if it divides us then we are divided between the righteous and the collaborator.

[@tiredman99]

I really do hate the whole thing of "presentism" where we judge people from history by our moral standards of today. I have a feeling where a lot of this race and sex swapping comes from

[@dorugoramon0518]

Its very arrogant, thats for sure. As if the present wont be judged by those in the future who will probably have radically different views from modernity.

[@flowerfield3468]

“Chronological Snobbery” is another term I’ve heard used to describe the same phenomenon. The idea that everything in the past be it cultural norms, philosophies, fashion, music, traditions, diets etc etc is inferior to anything currently existing in the present. Dismissive pseudo intellects.

[@Conserpov]

This has nothing to do with "moral standards" and "feelings" though. This is a methodical erasure of our collective memory. "You'll own nothing and be happy."

[@troybaxter]

It's shouting down from the shoulders of giants. Modern day ethics, like modern day science and mathematics, is built upon by the people of the past and couldn't be where it is at without them.

[@reshpeck]

Dude, this was powerful. The increasing intensity as you approached the end of your essay, coupled with the background music was so dramatically executed. I'm going to say that you gained a level and have entered a new echelon of persuasive communication. Bravo to you, Metatron!

[@moonshadow4274]

Just stumbled upon your channel, an instant follow from me! How refreshing to hear someone smart and rational! As a European, I hate how all the historical pieces are now forcefully including minorities, so no one gets offended. Truly miss the times before 2018, when movies and shows somewhat followed canonical accuracy

[@Sofasurfa]

English woman here and I was astonished to read a comment on another channel I watched state,and I kid you not, that George II was black 🫢

[@harrietharlow9929]

@@Sofasurfa Why do I believe someone was ignorant enough to assert that. Oh, yes. Because of the Anne Boleyn and Cleopatra.

[@Sofasurfa]

@@harrietharlow9929 It’s not about the amount of melanin in the skin, I actually think that it would be quite interesting, what niggles me is people playing around with history. So much of our understanding of historical events are subjective that the absolutes of our historical past must be protected. For example Queen Charlotte is portrayed as being black because she has a direct link back to a Portuguese woman called Margarita de Castros y Sousa from 1440 who’s ancestry in turn can be traced back to the Moorish mistress of Alphonso III of Portugal in 1230 and very little is known about this person not even the date of her death. Given that Charlotte Meklensburg- Shelitz had three hundred years of Northern European ancestry between her and Margarita they would have had to be some bloody strong genes to overcome all that northerness so I wish people would just use some common sense 😊

[@anne-marie2972]

​@@SofasurfaAlso Offa an Ango-Saxon king is now suddenly black. In fact some people are trying to claim that original Britons were black too 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️.

[@Sofasurfa]

@@anne-marie2972 I have no issue with proven facts, it’s made up stuff that annoys me. If the ancient people from here were black that’s fine, but all the evidence seems to attest to this as being totally false. I really hate it when history is fiddled with in order to pander to the politics of the time, one would think we were mature enough to beyond all of this by now. Hope you have a good 2024 😊

[@sussudioharvey9458]

Years ago a short movie was made called “Alternative Math”. It’s a funny skit but basically touches a bit on what you are saying about today’s culture. And that Feelings are more important than Facts. I think still on YT. I’ve talked to old school Historians and they all agree that our Society is in serious trouble. Please continue to speak out. I would have loved to have had you as one of my professors.

[@JohnDoe-zw8vx]

I can't remember the first time i heard "speak your own truth" but I do remember how it made me cringe because of how it clashes with the definition of truth. Thank you for fighting the good fight ❤

[@redskyatnight123]

Lol yeah everyone speaks their truth these days lol its rubbish

[@stax6092]

It's weird cause I always thought of that as a good phrase in the sense I understand it, by which I mean to speak your own truth should be to speak the things you have factually experienced to the best of your descriptive ability and use it to help improve yourself and others. (Tell the truth about a crime committed against you, that may be an extreme example but it's the best I got right now.) Is it me that's weird in this? Or am I just not getting my understanding right?

[@Mugwumps107]

Me too, stunned when I first heard this estrogenized bullshit verbiage. There is no your truth, there’s just THE truth.

[@JohnDoe-zw8vx]

@Stax For me, your interpretation of that phrase meaning "speak the things you've factually experienced" is just a long way of saying, "speak the truth." Also, considering the context people were being encouraged to "speak your own truth" included how their feelings affected their truth, it was suspicious and cringy to me. My BS meter always starts beeping when someone tries to over complicate something simple (like the truth).

[@TomasFunes-rt8rd]

Absolutely common in Australia's increasingly slippery sloped aboriginal "debate"....

[@cypresscustoms]

Powerful message. This used to be taught by true historians in the past. Not so much today.

[@theotherohlourdespadua1131]

"True" historians is a paradox. By that logic, the South's "Lost Cause" should have been the official explanation of the Civil War because that is what President Woodrow Wilson endorsed. Or Halder's version of the events in the Eastern Front should be taken as "true" because that is what the official narrative was... Historians have biases and no historian can ever be neutral or impartial. Because if they were then Thucydides's version of the Peloponnesian War should have a Spartan counterpart or at least use Spartan sources, which are not available because Sparta never wrote any of their history down...

[@cypresscustoms]

@@theotherohlourdespadua1131 a true historian is one who studies all side of history and is not shy about being able to change their mind even when the evidence goes against their biases. One of the biggest problems today is the steadfastness of a singular narrative even when that narrative is blatantly proven false.

[@karakarakiri9568]

@@theotherohlourdespadua1131When you learn science. You learn how to avoid and fight bias. In fact, it is (it was ?) an important part of the process when you learn "how to science". It's pretty much the basis of scientific method. You try to disprove your hypothesis to avoid bias. Because if you try to prove your own hypothesis, you will obviously favor what help you and reject what no.

[@ssteel]

@@cypresscustoms I'd say there are more true historians today than ever before. What's happening right now isn't new. It just so happens that you can't get away with this in modern times.

[@MarthaAnthony]

This is happening in psych too. Usually you would have to connect information from others, full patient history, interviews, current research, diagnostic and statistical manuals etc etc to build a case for a diagnosis, and not just agree with what one troubled person tells you is the truth.

[@NightTimeDay]

Left the field for this reason. It's very bad. Some therapists view it as genuinely harmful to try to do anything more than affirm. But affirming alone doesn't do much but accept payment to keep patients at their low points or enable them. And don't even get me started on the intersection of history and psychology. I took a history of psychology course and it was proudly and openly pedogogically designed around historical revisionism. They literally call it the "new history of psychology" in opposition to "old psychology" with the "great man approach" lol. So basically critical theory, a focus on women who didn't contribute much (funnily enough totally leaving out Sabina Spielrein) and downplaying "white men" like Darwin and Freud.

[@NightTimeDay]

I also had a developmental psych prof with decades of experience of working with children say, verbatim "we need to make boys more affiliative and girls more aggressive to end future power gaps". Psychology is seriously disturbed right now.

[@BarneyLeith]

As a former high school history teacher, I fully agree with what you say in this excellent video. Thank you for putting the case against woke revisionism so clearly!

[@TheCaniblcat]

Think of how people would react if MLK were portrayed by Tom Holland or Keanu Reeves? They'd be up in arms, and rightly so. On the other hand, I'm fine with Halle Bailey portraying the Little Mermaid, as last I checked Ariel was a fictional character, not an historical figure.

[@Havi1912]

​@@TheCaniblcatWhat if they made an already established character of color white? Black Panther for example. Not bashing, just curious.

[@gravygraves5112]

@@Havi1912 The progressives would be up in arms about white washing. Apparently they already had a fit over the casting of Nani, Lilo's older sister in Lilo and Stitch, because the actress is to pale; the actress is a native Hawaiian.

[@ptolemyauletesxii8642]

​@@TheCaniblcat You guys must be really mad about the movies The Conqueror and U-571.

[@ptolemyauletesxii8642]

​@@Havi1912 what like most Hollywood movies 50 years ago?

[@UtamagUta]

I started believing that this period, early to mid XXI century will be remembered as the modern-dark ages. Facts don't matter anymore,- only feelings. Structure doesn't matter anymore,- it something is not working according to MY wants,- structure must be demolished. Terrifying times indeed.

[@maguffintop2596]

Careful ‘dark ages’ can be considered Rrrrrazist, ya know like Black Holes…

[@conorkelly947]

dude touch grass seriously, twitter and youtube are not the real world

[@fynntotalwar1672]

I know that doomsaying is fun but dark age implies that things used to be different and changed, pre internet people definitely did not care more about facts, in fact likely they were way more naive even.

[@flamenmartialis6839]

The difference is that the"dark ages" wasn't really that dark. It was the rulers in the renaissance that wanted to seem more enlighted and better than previous rulers.

[@gdolson9419]

I think it's mostly rampant narcissism. Many seem to have forgotten ... or perhaps refuse to acknowledge that society is social. Collective beliefs, values, and goals. Not individual.

[@grzegorzbrzeczyszczykiewic8954]

Modern historians can be closer to objective historical facts than any other historians from the past due to new archeological discoveries, technological progress etc. and yet there are so called "professors" who claim that we should throw it all out the window because "there are many truths". To me it's simply insane.

[@ms.blackcat]

I'm glad I never went to college. I saved money and my brain from B.S.

[@kaizokujimbei143]

It's the fact that technology has advanced so much that the race hustlers are getting agitated. They can't grift if the carbon dating methods get infinitesimally accurate.

[@brittakriep2938]

@@ms.blackcat : I, Brittas boyfriend am also no Accademic, but it happeded sometimes that guides of museums or historical tours ( done by a small german historical society) told me, that for a trained worker my historical knowledge is rather good. At one historical tour to town Wertheim the guide was a princess of Löwenstein - Wertheim -... When we visited the ruins of medieval Wertheim Castle, where her ancestors once lived, she spoke only about histotry and artistical aspects of Castle architecture, but no word of intressting military aspects of castle architecture. For known reasons, military toppics are in Germany no more in favour. So i asked the princess if is allowed, to speak some words about rare to see Details of fortifications. She allowed this, and afterwards other members of tour said, it is rare, to hear someone who has knowledge about fortifications ( and tells this in slowly dying out local dialect).

[@adorabell4253]

It’s more than that. Modern historical research digs deeper into history using lenses and themes. Things like looking at the same events or documents from a women’s history lens and seeing the women that were present that aren’t mentioned in standard histories. Things like looking at tax or court documents to see how women navigated patriarchal laws. Or looking for the children. Or looking through manorial documents to see how peasants and serfs defended their rights using legal and extralegal means. Modern history isn’t just about finding new info but reassessing old info using new methods.

[@grzegorzbrzeczyszczykiewic8954]

@@adorabell4253 Reassessing history should be based on solid evidence not on someone's delusions.

[@Mermer-16]

"Truth is not an opinion." Or a feeling. Such simple concepts that so many people refuse to acknowledge.

[@MartnCFdk]

Don't forget that hundreds of thousands or even millions only exposure to history is through movies and series. If you slap a "documentary" Tag To a Hollywood production those people will automatically infer it's true.

[@JoseighBlogs]

Exactly ~ especially when so-called biographic films on famous individuals are creatively manipulated with made up or exaggerated scenarios about the subjects life.

[@cherub3624]

You are completely right about this subject, all of your videos addressing it have been. I've followed you for years and I'm happy to see you've taken the side of sanity, but they will never let you or any of us win this. I know you moved here about a year ago right, so this woke insanity may be relatively new to you but the sane americans have been dealing with this crazy shit for years and years, and they villainize any of us willing to speak the truth about it. You are one of my favorite people on youtube and this country is better for having you, so I'm sorry you have to basically arrive to this delusional self-victimization, emotionally unhinged, history rewriting band of lunatics. You are an OBJECTIVE thinker and that means they WILL be gunning for you, my friend. Your community is with you.

[@angeliawatson316]

@cherub3245 , i disagree we've already won . The fact that they stubbornly plow forward with the same narrative and insistence of being right about thier version of history would be terribly embarrassing if they weren't so arrogant. There are children , young and old adults of all races that aren't so gullible to believe everything coming from that community of woke . Infact there's several reactionary you tubers educating themselves and others of thier community true history and calling them out for the dishonorable behavior. There's only a small group of them that try to convince others that soon the world will be theirs because they were here first as though the only people on earth were blacks and the rest of us came along really late and stole Europe and the Americas from them . Take heart we've won they're bad losers and cheaters never want to admit they're wrong but soon it will be too embarrassing for them to continue to show thier faces because most already know their narrative and agenda doesn't hold water as they're exposed for hoax after hoax and made up data to play victims while they hide the data that proves them wrong .

[@nemdrazil]

You have, unknowingly, given me a cause to dedicate the rest of my life to. I have been a student of history, even outside education, my whole life. It is my passion, and I have wanted to make it my career for over a decade now. (Financial situation is preventing further education at the moment) I will now dedicate my career, as a teacher of history, to the reinforcement of history as the search for the truth, not a blank slate that any powerful group can write on at will. Thank you, I have been a long time subscriber, and you continue to reinforce my faith in you.

[@normiedeathsquad40]

I am currently doing a history degree in the UK and they are pushing what this professor is saying.

[@DC-bp8sx]

That cleopatra is African?

[@normiedeathsquad40]

@@DC-bp8sx no not quite. I have studied Cleopatra as a module, and we did look at this afro centrist view of her and as part of that they try to teach that history can be viewed as culturally subjective. That is what metatron is arguing. There is no TRUTH only 'our truth'. Luckily I have been inoculated against the dogma as I am a mature student with life experience, but to the young kids, they don't stand a chance. It's why you see some of the most retarded stuff coming out, like Rome wasn't real and Cleopatra was a black African.

[@anne-marie2972]

​@@normiedeathsquad40 Also threre have been Black African Ango-Saxon Kings 🙄🤦🏻‍♀️. Why an earth some black people are so obsessed to be a part of European rulers history 🤔 ? "Black African Ango-Saxon Kings " this whole sentence doesn't make sense at all.

[@jean-martinvonsiebenthal2836]

Long before Damnatio Memoriam, the ancient Egytian were also customary of the practice of a new ruler erasing the memory of a previous one, erasing his names on monuments and stele, removing his face from temple and remodeling statues to his own likeness. One of the most notable victim of this was Akhenaton, which ironically is now one of the most famous ancient Pharaoh. Another one was Hatshpsut, which definitely would have earned a movie titled The Woman King.

[@EGraf]

Akhenaton followers also did that to the god Amon, in many of the texts of the tombs in Luxor you can see the world "Amon" destroyed.

[@schorpioen7466]

Yeah... and they removed the nosesof statues to try to destroy theory life force

[@phillipseifert694]

I’ve lived my life by the standard “I want to know as many true things as possible” Whether my ancestors came from castles or mud huts … they should be celebrated for simply surviving to pass their genes on to create me

[@romaincanton1315]

This is the way

[@tiergeist2639]

I am the same.

[@anastasia-fr1gn]

This is such an important video and the last few sentences were so well spoken! As an avid reader and enjoyer of historical books and movies (both documentaries/historical and historical fiction) I get into debates a lot with people irl and online about certain things that are being pushed into a time period/place/event that could not have been possible or is flat out wrong. So many of the younger generation rely on TikToks and entertainment shows for their history and are too lazy to do any basic research. Subscribed and look forward to more! Keep telling the truth and striving for intellectual honesty. 👍

[@jimwolfgang9433]

You speak so well, both figuratively and actually. Love this kind of content.

[@gabbyn978]

"Truth is not an opinion" - one of the best sentences ever.

[@zitronentee]

Unfortunately, some people take opinion as truth, despite no facts to support. The word 'my truth' has been said too much.

[@ssteel]

@@zitronentee People don't know the difference between opinion and fact. The "My opinion is fact" thing is basically universal at this point in my opinion.

[@steakwolf]

Amazing video, been a noble one since you were reviewing Skyrim armor, haven’t missed many of your videos along the way. This is so important! Thank you 🙏. You laid this out perfectly, and your closing statements were extremely powerful!

[@metatronyt]

Thanks!

[@EmmanuelGoldstein3]

Another aspect of this that needs mentioning is that, like the rest of the "diversity" crowd, the multiple truths proponents don't actually allow anything that goes against their agenda. Demanding the acceptance of multiple truths is merely a transitional phase, whose purpose is to weaken our allegiance to the concept of truth. Once that is achieved, it is much easier to compel the acceptance of an obvious lie as the one and only truth.

[@adorabell4253]

Lost cause narrative.

[@gaybowser4967]

Except we, the diversity crowd, don't want that. We want diversity, not lies. I know Twitter makes it look like the inverse but that doesn't change anything.

[@ektran4205]

@@gaybowser4967 to be more specific its forced-diversity, equity inclusion

[@williamanderson6006]

Well said

[@jimjones-bk2is]

If they don't allow it, why are you able to bang on about it here?

[@flaviodelucena1974]

"History does not care if offends" is just absolute. Excelente!

[@noelkorf5018]

I’ve been discussing this very topic with people I work with. It is inherently wrong to change history! I appreciate this video very much!

[@yllbardh]

History need's to be changed according to factual recording discovered and not based on some need to feed up some societal needs of understanding themselves in the given moment.

[@TheShounak]

Hmmmm.... I dont see such intense fervor for historical accuracy directed at all the white jesus churches! Wonder why is that!

[@andrew_owens7680]

But, but, history as portrayed in films has been changed by cultural bias since the beginning of film history. Did you have a problem with John Wayne playing Ghengis Khan? The portrayal of every Muslim as a terrorist for a generation? Blacksploitation? This is what Hollywood does.

[@SuicV]

I've been saying this for a long time: there is no such thing as "my truth" or "your truth", there is only The Truth, everything else is a belief, an opinion, maybe a conclusion. That doesn't mean we can ever be sure of the actual truth, but we can do our best to get as close to it as possible

[@Macmumoz]

There is however perspectives. How a baker in Rome saw the building of the Colosseum would be different than a gladiator, different to a stone mason, different to a member of the ruling classes. The fact it was built remains a fundamental reality, how it was perceived at the time by different individuals is different. If we can understand those different perspectives it is valuable but it doesn't change the fundamental reality.

[@deriznohappehquite]

I think it’s important to distinguish between historical revision and historical erasure. Sometimes new facts come to light. Sometimes facts are dismissed in favor of narrative.

[@artstation707]

Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, as depicted in 'Abreujamen de las Estorias

[@butchwiltshire6686]

I am refreshed by your intellectual honesty, and commitment to historical accuracy.

[@farblood69]

This is one of your best videos I've seem, it's so necessary for everyone, specially in America right now!

[@metatronyt]

Thanks Hector

[@SPrince-t9u]

@@metatronyt Nothing is backing the U.S dollar Metratron, you know why they are doing this, and you know what's gonna happen next

[@richardcaldwell5313]

You are 100% correct. I have loved studying history for 30+ years. I have run into many contradictions of historical and the enemy of true history Hollywood. One off the top of my head that has done so much damage is the mini series Roots. It is shown in history classes in American high schools and it has nothing to do with historical truth. It has created a racial rift in America and only recently some have started learning the historical truth of slavery. Even the author said it was not historical truth, he said he wanted to give his people a mythical story. It's people like this that is causing so many issues. This new wave is just a contentious of what has been happening for as long as Hollywood been around. It is also why I do not call people that act in Hollywood actors but professional liars. Done with my ranting, keep up the great work.

[@barbarossarotbart]

According to the late Austrian actor Peter Simonischek all actors are liars, because they have to lie to the audience.

[@barbarossarotbart]

@brakyosaurus You did not miss them. They did never exist. But those revisionist afrocentrists will tell you that your government destroyed all the evidence because they want to hide the genocide on the true(= black) Egyptians. But they have been lied to ...

[@pastorhershman5936]

Exceptional! We all need to hear the things which you have to say. And remaining faithful to the truth is always essential and necessary.

[@russellbreedlove8222]

I only recently discovered your channel, and subscribed after watching just the second video. I have been entertained, and more importantly, impressed by each video thus far. But this one? Whew! I don't know how you're going to top it. It is so good as to be nearly perfect. And so important due to what is happening in our world right now. Thank you for this excellent "tool" you have shared with us. I am going to make sure my children, and their children, see it. Hold the line!

[@BertLaverman]

In school I was taught Herodotus was known as the first historian because he used to not just describe what he learned about the past, but also how he learned it, as well as indicate the quality of his source. For many people, such references would not work, simply because of time constraints on the telling of the story. So you often get stories where the standing or reputation of the source is used instead. An older and confident-sounding "expert," reputation supported by a reported link to a university, is then an easy way to establish that commentator's bona fides. Lacking that, we fall into the range of "it is said," "some experts believe," or even "could it be." I'm not saying it is Aliens, ...

[@PayneMaximus]

"Hold the line", I liked that ending statement very much. I didn't even remember that love isn't always on time.

[@ShadyCrypt]

I know the feeling all too well. It sickens me that many people already base their "knowlege" about history on hollywood production. If we let garbage like Netflix Cleopatra slide, it can infect many minds, like that insult of a show from HBO, Chernobyl.

[@donaldpratt2296]

We’ve been letting radically inaccurate film “slide” since the invention of film.

[@troybaxter]

To be fair, for every HBO Chernobyl, you get a Netflix Three Mile Island. What I mean by this is that you get one show that is fairly accurate and another show that is so off the mark that is laughable and downright malicious.

[@trishburke2845]

Part of the problem with the computer/internet age is that information is as easy to edit/delete as it is to look up. Personally, I’ve been collecting print books and documents for myself my son and our descendants.

[@Billabongbabalog]

It is important to note that the living memory (the historian) is the most dangerous threat to tyranny. Keep living, fight as hard as you can (physically because it will come to that), and overcome to keep the memory alive.

[@omegawii]

As a physicist myself, loved that reference on quantum mechanics... yeah totally agree with you, the issue is a linguistic one... people missing one word for another. There is only one truth but there can be infinitely many beliefs or opinions.

[@mellow-jello]

Reminds me of the Japanese history books describe their invasion of China was an occupation, answering to a trade embargo, and economic warfare. Fact, was troops fought, and took over northern regions in China, pre-WWII, similar to the present Ukraine conflict by Russia.

[@michaelmcnally9737]

Or how modern US history books say the civil war was about states' rights and that Columbus wasn't considered a monster in his own time

[@Conserpov]

_> similar to the present Ukraine conflict by Russia_ "Russia invaded Ukraine" and "Cleopatra was Black". "Your truth" is way more important than those pesky facts, right?

[@CharlesLumia]

Dude that ending song is awesome!

[@guyincognito959]

In school I found history dry at first. Then I had the best teachers. Today I know that truth and historical truth are paramount values. Without honesty there can be no discourse, no society, no reason even. It is an ever hot topic that is worth to stand up for.

[@CursedKelpie]

I am a college student and I have run in to this stuff in my classes, I had a historical literature class where the teacher said there is no such thing as objective reality. This woke stupidity is rotting our culture from the inside, and I hate it. But I had to sit there, smile and nod like a puppet to get a good grade.

[@secretname2670]

Objective and Subjective are words created to describe things. Objective describes everything that's not coming from (you) and subjective describes everything that is coming from (you). By that very logic, history is very objective or it's not history at all. Preach.

[@GenJuhru]

I take it as in the context of literature were perception, interpretation & bias can affect the outcome.

[@brittakriep2938]

I am german, Brittas boyfriend, no Accademic, only an ordinary trained factory worker. In my homeregion, there are dozens over dozens of Castle ruins from standing stonewalls to barely visible ditches. So i am interessted in castles for about fifty years now. I have seen lots of ruins and read(en?) lots of books. Most books tell nearly the same, but sometimes there is a different Idea or theory . In such cases it is good, to know all theories and using the brain to think, what is possible, what is not. Then you can come next (!) to real truth.

[@kungfuskull]

I highly recommend, if you have any desire to try to help people like that realize their error (because just telling them nearly never works, and if you get hostile about it they get defensive and just dig their heels in harder: no, you have to let THEM realize they are being stupid and need to re-think things) I would recommend doing something kinda annoying but not illegal: something like, say, handing in an essay that is written backwards. And when they very likely (especially as an actual teacher, not just random person with same thoughts) tell you that it is backwards and therefore it is not done right: you'll get a fail mark for this assignment, so they're giving you a chance to correct this mistake (especially since with this example, most people would just think your printer malfunctioned and you didn't notice so they're pointing it out for you). Well, you should (politely and with a gentle smile and happy tone of voice), refute that no, it IS correct, because it makes sense to you, and there's no such thing as objective reality, right? So, we're both right! Isn't that wonderful? 😃👍 And they'll either clam up instantly, or they'll try to argue that no, it's not the way essays are supposed to be done, ergo it is wrong. Then just keep pointing out that with no objective reality, THEY are wrong, and they're attacking "YOUR truth" which according to them is a major no-no, so, they MUST stop, and MUST accept it as a top-notch essay because YOUR truth is you wrote the best essay ever, and printed it "the right way" at least according to YOUR version of reality and truth. I've done this kind of thing before a handful of times, with various methods (again, stick to something annoying but not an actual CRIME) and with various results. Some were enraged, some puzzled, and a rare 2 of them actually contacted me way later (~7 weeks for one, ~2years for the other) and actually thanked me for making them realize what they were doing. So, on the optimistic notion of "theoretically, the more people we can treat with kindness even when they are essentially an enemy, the better: as kindness is just kinda by definition a net positive on the world for one, and helping THEM *realize* they are wrong compared to something like getting into a heated argument or shouting match: in short they are vastly more likely to believe *themselves* via introspection you can spark, compared to believing a person they already do or soon will consider to be an enemy and what you have to say is seen as an attack (and IS an attack, so, yeah) on them personally; they wont see it as a confrontation of their ideas, they'll take it personally and just turtle even harder.

[@charlespolk5221]

Define "woke".

[@dantespimp]

Thanks so much for advocating for TRUTH-over-FEELINGS, Metatron. Now, more than ever, people need to take a stand against this 'MY truth' ideology. It's opening Pandora's Box. We saw actual devastating consequences of this during the Corona Virus pandemic, where the conflict between science and personal belief led to paranoia, mistrust, and chaos. It was terrifying for me because, as someone who researched horrific events like the Black Death, it was like watching history repeat itself in real time (with human hubris and ignorance proving to be a greater threat than the threat itself). Without the facts and truth, we have no foundation to build and depend on. We are doomed to crumble as a society. I think it's sad that countless generations before us sacrificed their very lives to pursue the Truth. And now we're dismantling that Truth and reverting society back to unstable, chaotic times.

[@eyesofthecervino3366]

Sadly, at this point you can put me squarely in the "mistrust" category. I'm all for science, but I've already seen so many instances of "science" being twisted to fit certain financially driven narratives. Oil companies funded studies "disproving" climate change, food companies paying for research that shows sugar isn't behind the obesity, diabetes, and heart disease epidemic. Even the original study showing a potential link between autism and vaccination was a total sham designed to drive people towards buying the lead scientist's own vaccine instead! So with so much censorship and suppression of objections, often objections from medical specialists knowledgeable in these fields, surrounding the topic of covid and its vaccinations . . . do I really have any choice but to be distrustful? They got me to take an experimental medication by deliberately misleading me, and I'm supposed to keep trusting them? I'm sorry. I know it's a tangled mess, and I know there was a lot of anti-science and willful ignorance out there. I took a lot of flak for wearing masks and social distancing, and would gladly do so again, but while I am certainly no anti-vaccer I don't think I can say I trust this "science" anymore just yet. I'll try to stay open-minded and see how things go, but . . . yeah.

[@halloweenghost371]

Lol, okay, Covid was its own thing. And we are still dealing with the after effects of it. But comparing it to the Black Death is a little dramatic. I don't recall stepping over bodies killing over while I am trying to buy meat from the butcher. People would literally die in the streets. People would wail and scream in their houses from the pain of the symptoms. And it's not like entire cities, or 75% of the population died from Cov9d. I know people died -I have known people who have and some who nearly died from Covid. But really, like the Black Death?? How much have you actually studied on it?