History Is Written by the Losers (2016)
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They made previously compulsory subjects: Biology and Economics optional but this basically pointless subject IS compulsory for entry into tertiary institutions.
History classes have been reintroduced recently but the textbooks are comical.
China is rewriting history in real time with its media and internet censorship.
Summary: I'll revise this title: History is Written by the Losers Unless the Winners Have Something to Hide
Besides which, "whoever is mentioned needs to be as great as these three" is your own special rule for which only you are the judge, which is not a particularly convincing argument to anyone but yourself.
If Tanner had meant 'any random historian', he would have said so and used them (and also disagreed with the example I provided of Machiavelli, who is a famous example of this trope). He used the most relevant examples, like Sima Qian and Thucydides, who he writes about extensively elsewhere, and note by the way the context here of the Thucydides Roundtable. It is a basic fact of linguistics that you choose examples to be as central and relevant as possible (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_principle). Nor am I sold on the Dunning example. It may be well known to you, but it's not that famous, and Dunning wasn't even from or educated in the South, much less was involved in the Civil War or Reconstruction in any way as a loser.
Success doesn't teach you anything. It just makes your life easier and this ease can give people false confidence.
A naive conception of success as a lucky singular event allows your statement.
Some organizations, and nations after their thousands of failures, leading to success, forget their origins, and are by their wealth shielded from understanding the sources of their success and wealth, via turnover in personnel and leadership, and forget what they learned.
Xerox (Haloid Corporation), for example transformed itself from a vulnerable photographic chemicals company under the thumb of Kodak, and risked the company in order to create a successful xerographic business. Its subsequent leadership failed to do the same in developing and furthering a wide variety of computer technologies that we rely on today, the ethernet, graphic computer interfaces and more via the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)
I can’t think of any sense in which this is true
I think another example could be very smart kids who breeze through school on raw intelligence and struggle when they reach something slightly beyond their natural abilities because they've never learned how to deal with difficult subjects.
I don't think most success is this way, but I believe it can be.
> We say that history is written by the winners. That is sometimes true. We have no Carthaginian accounts of their war with Rome; few historians today have much sympathy for Hitler.
mean, that WWII history is written by the winners or loosers? Because as an Austria an least in can intensely confirm that the history I perceive is not written by the loosers.