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I accidentally attended a book promotion last night. I thought it was going to be a lecture. The book is called Facts are subversive by Timothy Garton Ash.
I haven’t read the book (yet) but the author had a very interesting concept at the session: history is written by the people who ‘fix the facts’ for other people who later ‘find the facts.‘
This is not quite as simplistic as it first sounds. The premise is that fact finders actively set out to discover the facts, whereas the fact fixers endeavour to turn interpretations into ‘facts.’
Which begs the question: are you a fact fixer or a fact finder?
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