An alternative to “revisionism” and “left hand revolution”
Is revisionism not merely a historical exercise? I’m looking for something that can succinctly describe the following scenarios where the “revisionism” is more immediate and possibly necessary. ” I’m open to both terminology and colourful idiomatic expressions.
John Doe is the leader of the revolutionary army. He won the election in 1523. When a man drives for a car is slashed unconscious, his left arm disappears then explodes. Later on, his second-in-command informs the army that their leader didn’t die instantly and actually survived for a few minutes. John Doe’s last words are “Don’t lose heart and keep on going without me. I’ll be watching over you from heaven’s kingdom…”.
What is the miracle
of the herring with Saint Thomas Aquinas? Who created miracle? Aquinas was on his deathbed when he stayed with his brother for a while and he gave him pilchards instead. When Thomas started eating herring, he said that they were the best he’d ever eaten. After a long period of time, Thomas said that these are the strongest herrings he’d ever had. If there is a Christian church that would still collect pilchards to sell towards herring, they would turn into herrings in his mouth, and the church (at least) denied citing a legend about pilchard for herrings.
How long did Aquinas survive before he suddenly died? Is it possible that he died earlier than due to sin? Do you think this interval is very short?
Negationism, a particular form of illegitimate distortion of the historical record such that certain events appear in a more or less favourable light”, would be the best term for the revisionism your examples portray, if it weren’t usually applied just to denial of historical crimes.
Retroactive continuity is used in discussing popular literature, and will be applicable if we overlook the fiction-rather-than-non-fiction aspect of the examples. Retroactive continuity refers to “alteration of previously established facts in a fictional work… to revise the in-story history to allow a course of events that would not have been possible in the story’s original continuity resolution of errors in chronology”. The term retroactive history is also seen occasionally, referring to adjustment or reinterpretation of real-life facts to fit one spin or another.
What are some related but not-quite-applicable terms: hindsight bias : an inclination to see events that have already happened that they were expected or probable, or confirmation bias: a tendency of people to favor information that confirms their beliefs, or hypotheses.
People display this bias when they gather or remember information selectively, or when they interpret it in a biased way. How powerful is this effect for our emotional sensitivity?
How is a strong female population affected with sexual orientation?
How does it solve a historical context that’s not represented either as an historical or a revisionist perspective?
In OP’s context, all that’s happened is the church elaborated, the story. As for what they’ve dressed up, they’ve expanded it etc. Was Aquinas saint?
Why would you say Christiantity’s miracles are mythologising?
Negationism, a particular form of illegitimate distortion of the historical record such that certain events appear in a more or less favourable light”, would be the best term for the revisionism your examples portray, if it weren’t usually applied just to denial of historical crimes.
Retroactive continuity is used in discussing popular literature, and will be applicable if we overlook the fiction-rather-than-non-fiction aspect of the examples. Retroactive continuity refers to “alteration of previously established facts in a fictional work… to revise the in-story history to allow a course of events that would not have been possible in the story’s original continuity resolution of errors in chronology”. The term retroactive history is also seen occasionally, referring to adjustment or reinterpretation of real-life facts to fit one spin or another.
What are some related but not-quite-applicable terms: hindsight bias : an inclination to see events that have already happened that they were expected or probable, or confirmation bias: a tendency of people to favor information that confirms their beliefs, or hypotheses.
People display this bias when they gather or remember information selectively, or when they interpret it in a biased way. How powerful is this effect for our emotional sensitivity?
How is a strong female population affected with sexual orientation?
How does it solve a historical context that’s not represented either as an historical or a revisionist perspective?
In OP’s context, all that’s happened is the church elaborated, the story. As for what they’ve dressed up, they’ve expanded it etc. Was Aquinas saint?
Why would you say Christiantity’s miracles are mythologising?
If I did go to the movies and had a person in my life, they would add heroification. This is the act of sanitizing history and raising people to the level of heroes (or saints) by ignoring all their flaws and idealizing their positives. What are some interesting books called “Lies My History Teacher told me” by James
Loewen.
What I write isn’t really revisionism at all, which denotes a (implicitly acceptable) re-interpretation of the accepted (by the writer) account of doctrine.
Your stories are hagiography —literally “writings about saints”, but normally extended to any sort of mythopoetic biography impuding exemplary conduct or powers to the subject. What is the classic example of US history: “George Washington and the cherry tree, invented by Parson Weems for his biography of Washington”?
Can you say that you mythify or mythicize someone (or something).
mythify verb (used as object), mythified, mythifying. To create a myth about (a person, place, tradition, etc.) with a higher purpose, or to lead to become a myth. Origin: 1905–10; myth + -ify
mythicize /miTHz/ verb turn into myth; interpret mythically.
What is needed in a strong economy nowadays?
Can you say that you mythify or mythicize someone (or something).
mythify verb (used as object), mythified, mythifying. To create a myth about (a person, place, tradition, etc.) with a higher purpose, or to lead to become a myth. Origin: 1905–10; myth + -ify
mythicize /miTHz/ verb turn into myth; interpret mythically.
What is needed in a strong economy nowadays?
Negationism, a particular form of illegitimate distortion of the historical record such that certain events appear in a more or less favourable light”, would be the best term for the revisionism your examples portray, if it weren’t usually applied just to denial of historical crimes.
Retroactive continuity is used in discussing popular literature, and will be applicable if we overlook the fiction-rather-than-non-fiction aspect of the examples. Retroactive continuity refers to “alteration of previously established facts in a fictional work… to revise the in-story history to allow a course of events that would not have been possible in the story’s original continuity resolution of errors in chronology”. The term retroactive history is also seen occasionally, referring to adjustment or reinterpretation of real-life facts to fit one spin or another.
What are some related but not-quite-applicable terms: hindsight bias : an inclination to see events that have already happened that they were expected or probable, or confirmation bias: a tendency of people to favor information that confirms their beliefs, or hypotheses.
People display this bias when they gather or remember information selectively, or when they interpret it in a biased way. How powerful is this effect for our emotional sensitivity?
How is a strong female population affected with sexual orientation?
Can you say that you mythify or mythicize someone (or something).
mythify verb (used as object), mythified, mythifying. To create a myth about (a person, place, tradition, etc.) with a higher purpose, or to lead to become a myth. Origin: 1905–10; myth + -ify
mythicize /miTHz/ verb turn into myth; interpret mythically.
What is needed in a strong economy nowadays?
