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VISIONS OF HISTORY: WAYS OF SEEING THE PAST. ?Most of us without realising it have a unique vision?

By Glenn Reynolds

VISIONS OF HISTORY: WAYS OF SEEING THE PAST. “Most of us without realising it have a unique vision of the past, a way of thinking about it that predisposes us to look at current events in a particular way. In general, we focus on power and its workings while overlooking other aspects of human existence such as voluntary exchange, cooperative interaction, innovation, and discovery.” Remember that the scribes who wrote the records generally worked for some king or other.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on November 19, 2010 (boomark / email).