Just saw a popular meme repeated that essentially reduces to this: "you can recognize true history because it makes you feel bad. If it makes you feel good, it must be false."
Yeah, that's "confirmation bias" + pessimism. It's nonsense.
True history will make you feel all kinds of ways, because "good" and "bad" have been happening all along. Plus, half the time, it's not clear which is which.
Pessimism is NOT realism.
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