I think every ATS member knows the uncertainty when choosing a thread forum.
However, things can get especially confusing when discussing recent history, or the representations of history in modern mediums (from writing to film).
What about history that can be viewed with some distance to current events and media, but it is also by no means "ancient"?
OK, one can squeeze it into other forums, but that makes it either unduly "political", or it doesn't fit into the rather anal confines of religious conspiracies, and so forth.
History requires a certain discourse analysis that may draw from a range of other sources - from secret societies to religion.
Discussions on film and documentary about history will all too easily fall into the Chit-chat forums.
That can be a pity, because how history is perceived tells us much on current censorship and conspiracy.
Re-making the past tells us much on present propaganda, but it also means we can have some distance to current issues.
So it could be one forum where one could say: "Obama uses established Masonic tropes in his speeches", without the divide-and-rule assumptions of the more political forums.
I could also discuss how clogged up London was with crap during the Industrial Revolution, and how relativistic posts on "filthy India" really are.
It could put some received notions on our human condition into stark perspective.

OK, considering the lack of response, I suppose not.
It could have been helpful, methinks.

# yea. History is key. If you do not know the history of anything you are going to misinterpret the situation. Media and government has mastered skill of painting history for the benefit of societal institutions. It is easy to create opinions in people when they are uneducated about an issue.
This being the case a history forum would have many benefits. Discussions of different accounts of an event. The role of historical events, people, and ideas in any issue. I am for it.

I think we need one. For example, I think discussions about, say, Nazi Germany during WWII hardly fit into Political Madness, and I don't think they fit into the General forum either.

OMFG YES!

I would love a history forum, I hope the 3 amigos take note!

It would be a waste of time. History is written by winners so is basically useless for me.

Just imagine murderers like gw bush, and what they will have in books about him in 200 years. Sick.

We have probably had horrendous leaders, and history probably shows them as winners, lol.

Even though we should learn from history how can you learn from untruths? Of course history happened but when you start talking about certain events, it sickens me to hear people stating as fact what people felt and meant in writings, when we cannot even agree today what anything means.

I would like a serious philosophy forum, but the one we have is not very serious as too many come here to ridicule, and too many have people on ignore. Yep ignore on the net is really adult like.

Just noting: isn't it strange that we think the Neanderthals 20, 000 years ago were more fascinating than the past 2000 years?
What about "The Tudors", the treatment of women, the religious splits?
What about Brecht's people's history?
It's like we are channeled into a major conceptual gap, which is a huge lacuna about our recent past.
I think this is deliberate.
Why?
Well, when did the kings and queens still call themselves "appointed by God"?
I mean these are the ages that DEMONSTRATE how we have been controlled by a small, interbred group of people.
Of course we mustn't discuss it!

Hidden History

Hello,

I just posted in another thread about how I would love to see a History forum be made available, and how I would be ready to put my time&effort into making it a worthy addition to ATS.

Lest We Forget.



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