Posted on Aug 26, 2020
"Presentism" Imperils Our Future by Distorting Our Past | Lawrence W. Reed
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Terms for this way of looking at the past range from intertemporal bigotry to chronological snobbery to cultural bias to historical quackery. The more clinical label is “presentism.” It’s a fallacious perspective that distorts historical realities by removing them from their context. In sports, we call it “Monday morning quarterbacking.”
Terms for this way of looking at the past range from intertemporal bigotry to chronological snobbery to cultural bias to historical quackery. The more clinical label is “presentism.” It’s a fallacious perspective that distorts historical realities by removing them from their context. In sports, we call it “Monday morning quarterbacking.”
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Lt Col Charlie Brown He did an outstanding job of explaining this concept in simple terms. I will use this as part of critical thinking in my social studies classes.
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