Philosopher Theordor Adorno

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Revisionism

Revisionism is an important aspect of historical research. It is a necessary reexamination of history - otherwise you would still believe all the poppycock you were taught in school about the founding of America. Is the quest for truth always the truth? Of course not. Sometimes we don't see the truth when we're looking right at it - or we think we know the truth and it eludes us. Sometimes good intentions aren't enough. Openness and intellectual honesty is a necessity. And that is why some of the information here has changed. Some of my own views have changed. Everything is subject to change. And as progressives, we must never stop trying to achieve peaceful resolution without war, to oppose injustice, and to defend the truth.

Blogs

This is not a blog. The articles here are not blogs. I've been on the internet since its inception (1982), which I often refer to as the "interNUT" because any nut with a computer and a dialup to a service provider can write anything they want and publish it on the internet and very often it is mindless, useless crap. Since 1982 when I got on the net while studying programming in a technical college I thought the internet was the best thing to be invented since rye bread - and it probably was. It was a fantastic medium for sharing research between schools and later the public, but as with many good things it was corrupted by the money. When it became privatized, it became a tool of those with money and while anybody can still publish (almost) anything they want, and do, it is full of pornography and scams. One of the biggest scams today is the blog because everyone getting on the how long does weed stay in your system net today thinks with blog software or a blog hosting service they can get on a soap box. The reality is blogs feed their ego more than it provides the miraculous medium for sharing ideas and unimportant views. The reality is over 70% of all blogs are abandoned. Nobody reads them because there is already an information overload. The reality is search engines today are all capitalizing their position and all but a very few charge for getting into their database in this commercial toilet we call the internet. Next time you come across a blog on the net, ask yourself who is writing it. Check their credentials and check their sources. Don't believe everything you read unless you trust the source and then do your homework and check it out. Remember, there is a lot of crap on the net and everybody is trying to sell something - even ideas. Read the internet, but also read your share of books and stay fully informed. (-- de Omnibus est Dubatandum --)