History is told be the victors, and the rich. What would happen if history were told by the poor?

Question

Would it look like this? http://www.angelfire.com/in4/lightfootlane/

Answer 1

it would really kind of suck. it would cause the poor have constantly been put down or subjugated. A lot of the great things of history have come at the expense of the poor

Answer 2

I disagree. Official history is told and passed down by the victors but real history is written by historians. To be convinced of the differences between official history and historian history, the best thing to do is to read the Memoirs of Churchill and then books about WW2 by good patented historians. You will see that there are huge differences and that Mr Churchill's views of WW2 are not always in phase with views and records of historians.
Having said that if the losers were winning the wars, we would all be learning that Churchill was an alcoholic, that he was manipulated by the Jews, that he was the puppet of FDR, that he was a war criminal and that England systematically refused to make peace with a peaceful Germany who was not interested in attacking England. And probably most of us would believe it and would ask "What if Churchill had won the war?".

Answer 3

History is told by the victors and the literate. Money has nothing to do with it.

And history has been told by the poor in the form of the Communist Manifesto. Its called socialism. Not demeaning it in anyway, I'm just saying previous attempts to do this have been less than successful.

Answer 4

It's a shame that it wasn't. Unfortunately, because most written histories are from rich men throughout history, we know little about the poor and female side of society from their own point of view.

We'd have a much different look at history, instead of the continuation of ignorance that is perpetuated today in our society (think, columbus sailed the ocean blue as a big might explorer, not because Isabella and Ferndinand kicked all the Jews out of Spain, started to loss money, and needed to find a quicker route to Asia, asap... and a load of things dealing with the history of America we teach to children... making us look like gods who did not in any way completely exploit central and south america upon arrival... anyways).

It's a shame that people don't really care that much to seek out the information we DO have about our poorer or female predecessors.

Answer 5

It probably, like your question, would need to be spell-checked and edited...and I imagine that version would also be a volume of whining self-pity... There are reasons the poor are poor BEYOND being subjugated, the two greatest of which often go hand in hand - lack of education and poor work ethic...I consider the times in my life that I have been materially poor to have been my own fault...I went back to school in my 30's to partially correct that, then I developed better work habits...Of course, I could have felt sorry for myself and kept drawing food stamps and applying for government welfare programs...and I imagine I could have had a great time drinking cheap beer and commiserating with others in the same boat about how "the Man" is keeping us down
...The only poor people I have sympathy for are children and those who are infirm

Answer 6

Evolution is told by the winners, too. The losers are all dead. The morality of violent natural selection is beyond our power to decide. It IS how things are. Your life is a gift, but its maintenance and security are not. You must compete for what you need, and the competition is necessarily a harsh one. Tough. You have only two choices: either measure up to the requirements of survival, or else leave the natural world.

Answer 7

And today's day and age Revisionist History is being written by the RICH LIBERAL'S that want you to only KNOW their side. Go read what actually happened by getting books that were written IMMEDIATLY after or within the general time of that particular time. And get more then ONE side of the story and let yourself decide. Good luck!