We accept change in other areas of life. I doubt anyone recoils in horror and accuses their physician of being a “medical revisionist” when they use the latest medical marvel during treatment. Is the annual fascination with new cars troubling evidence of “automobile revisionism?” Why are historians solely burdened with the negative baggage implied by the term?
Academic arguments about whether the past can predict the future are as cyclical as the so-called circles of history they debate. But what then is the value of history?
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