5fish
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"Should we if we could?" I ask you all...
Decades ago I read a SiFi story I think by Arther C. Clark..In the story, a man had invented a way to look back in time like watching a TV or movie. The person watching could not interact with the past just watch what had happened years, decades, century, or millennium ago.
I ask you- If we had this technology should we use it to watch our heroes and battles of the Civil War. At first, I bet most everyone would say "YES" but there may be a high price to pay. You might find out that Grant was a bigger drunk then history has told us. Lee may not be that nobleman of character he is known to be. Forrest may truly be the devil on earth. Jackson may be crazier then history has hinted at. The price may be our loss of the myth and mystery of the Civil war but will gain the truth..
Is it a fair trade giving up myths and unknowns we ponder for knowing the absolute truth...
In Arther C, Clark's story all but one of the world's great religions lost their following because with this the ability to view the past the founders of the world's religions were revealed to be just imperfect mortal humans like us...
I ask "Should we view our civil war hero's if we could view into the past?"
Decades ago I read a SiFi story I think by Arther C. Clark..In the story, a man had invented a way to look back in time like watching a TV or movie. The person watching could not interact with the past just watch what had happened years, decades, century, or millennium ago.
I ask you- If we had this technology should we use it to watch our heroes and battles of the Civil War. At first, I bet most everyone would say "YES" but there may be a high price to pay. You might find out that Grant was a bigger drunk then history has told us. Lee may not be that nobleman of character he is known to be. Forrest may truly be the devil on earth. Jackson may be crazier then history has hinted at. The price may be our loss of the myth and mystery of the Civil war but will gain the truth..
Is it a fair trade giving up myths and unknowns we ponder for knowing the absolute truth...
In Arther C, Clark's story all but one of the world's great religions lost their following because with this the ability to view the past the founders of the world's religions were revealed to be just imperfect mortal humans like us...
I ask "Should we view our civil war hero's if we could view into the past?"