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Presentisme is die onkritiese nakoming van hedendaagse gebruike. Dit is veral die neiging om historiese gebeure in terme van moderne waardes en konsepte te beoordeel.
Die komediant, Bill Maher, het in 2022 hiermee gespot (kyk hier) en die belaglikheid hiervan uitstekend gedemonstreer:
Presentism, which means judging everyone in the past by the standards of the present. It’s the belief that people who lived 100 or 500 or a thousand years ago really should have known better. It’s like getting mad at yourself for not knowing what you know now when you were ten. Did Columbus commit atrocities? Of course. But people back then were generally atrocious. Everybody who could afford one had a slave. The Sumerians, the Egyptians, the Greeks, Romans, the Arabs, British, the early Americans. The word slave comes from Slav, because so many Slavic people were enslaved and they’re as white as the Hallmark Channel. But in today’s world when truth conflicts with narrative, it’s the truth that has to apologize. Being woke is like a magic moral time machine where you judge everybody against what you imagine you would have done in 1066 and you always win. A couple of years ago, they made a movie called The Aeronauts, about the scientists who broke the record for the highest altitude in a balloon. In fact, they were both men, but the movie made one of them a woman, because, as the director explained: “representation is important.” So true. Women never get enough credit for the things they didn’t do.
Bill Maher, September 2022