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History Will Never Be Viewed the Same
The digital age is changing the way we’ll look at everything
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I’ve been thinking a lot about history lately. Partly because for the last year, we’ve been continually reminded that we’re “living through history” right now. Mostly, this reminder is used to encourage people to care about our current situation, whether COVID or politics. It’s a warning to everyone that this is a time future generations will look back on and scrutinize. It’s suggesting each individual needs to choose “which side in history they want to be on.”
Choosing a side in history reminds me of a moment in one of my high school history classes. I think we were learning about the Spanish Inquisition, but I can’t be sure. Anyway, a classmate mentioned how the history book we were learning from really only gave one perspective, the winning side. To which our teacher responded with the famous quote often attributed to Winston Churchill,
“History is written by the victors.”
For some reason, this quote stuck with me. Something clicked inside me when I heard it. It made me question everything I’d ever…
