This sort of cultural filter probably enlarges the gulf between real history and on-paper recorded history.
Not wanting to worry the recipient of your letter. Omitting something you want to forget from your diary.
People writing their own auto-biographies are likely to express events in a way they’re happy with, omitting their own ugliest motivations and emotions. It is quite exceptional for a general who won a war to vocally express “we have fought on the wrong side.”[1]
“Gentlemen, I have come this morning to the inexcusable conclusion that we have fought on the wrong side. This entire war we should have fought with the fascists against the communists, and not the other way around. I fear that perhaps in fifty years America will pay a dear price and become a land of corruption and degenerate morals.”—General George S. Patton, 1945
This sort of cultural filter probably enlarges the gulf between real history and on-paper recorded history.
Not wanting to worry the recipient of your letter. Omitting something you want to forget from your diary.
People writing their own auto-biographies are likely to express events in a way they’re happy with, omitting their own ugliest motivations and emotions.
It is quite exceptional for a general who won a war to vocally express “we have fought on the wrong side.”[1]
“Gentlemen, I have come this morning to the inexcusable conclusion that we have fought on the wrong side. This entire war we should have fought with the fascists against the communists, and not the other way around. I fear that perhaps in fifty years America will pay a dear price and become a land of corruption and degenerate morals.”—General George S. Patton, 1945