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Date: August 26, 2025
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You said it yourself, history is written by the literate (be they munks or slave scribes) who are supported by the victors. Just because someone isn't literate themself doesn't mean they don't want their deeds recorded. So yes history is written by the victors, it is just written down by the literate.
Now yes here are histories written by and independent observer, but many historians are recording the view of their patron.
Louder for the people in the back
it really doesn’t matter who is writing or is able to write… narrative is the point and that is made by “victors”…. it would be 7000$ for you
A story is true. A story is untrue. As time extends, it matters less and less. The stories we want to believe, those are the ones that survive, despite upheaval and transition and progress. Those are the stories that shape history. And then what does it matter if it was true when it was born? It’s found truth in its maturity. Which if a virtue in man, ought to be no less so for the things men create.
You tend to listen to a man who casually unsheathes his sword in front of you.
Maybe in the ancient world. But in the modern world it absolutely is written by the victors.
You are deliberately ignoring instances where we know both that the other side’s records were destroyed intentionally and times we know that official documentation is actively lying.
When is your 18th birthday?
Oh my God I never realized this. This is why I watch yt shorts.
Caesar wrote and not for us but for the senate.
Propaganda
Not sure how the dead monks wrote anything after a Viking raid.