11-18-2009, 01:58 PM
Quote:If you can find it on Wikipedia, and it is truthful, factual, and at least marginally unbiased, then you should be able to find it at/on more respectable sources else as well.I think rather than having History being written by elite professors and spoon fed to elite students, we rather have a more democratic process of who writes history and who reads it. The only measure of who can participate now is access to a computer and the internet, articles that are poorly written or nonfactual will be improved or eliminated through step-wise refinement. What gets written about is de-facto what the society cares enough about to write.
Beyond that... History is rife with tomes of knowledge later found to be filled with errors...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudodoxia_Epidemica
I feel that truth is a journey, rather than a destination. Each of us need to be willing to challenge our own biased understanding of truth.