(A Fifth) Pithy Saying of the Day
May 26th, 2008 by Micah Tillman | Start the Discussion |
History may be written by the victors, but it’s remembered by the victims.*
*I wonder, however, whether it might not be more accurate to strike the definite articles.
(Others have realized what I try to express through this “pithy saying” before, of course, but it didn’t really hit me until a conversation I had with a fellow congregant after church on Sunday. He was describing to me the way in which Americans aren’t often forced to learn history, even as the rest of the world seems to be angry at the West because of its history. That is, of course, a paraphrase, and not an actual quotation. I wouldn’t want to attribute such group-reifications to him.)
