First ATD hatchet job

[Ray Easton]

On Wednesday, Nov 15, 2006, at 13:16 US/Central, Daniel Julius wrote:

> And secondly, I really bristle at this: "He believes in conspiracies, 
> not histories."  Historiographically, I'm very interested in what we 
> call history, and it seems like people kind of instinctively 
> (ideologically) create a three-tier hierarchy of truthfulness 
> -- veracity in descending order -- with Supposed Objective Truth (what 
> *really* happened on top), followed by the Historical Record, followed 
> lastly by Fiction (where conspiracies for this critic-feller are gonna 
> lie, I'm sure).  But so Objective Truth is an unattainable construct, 
> literally inaccessible immediately after it is completed, and so we 
> have competing systems of representation with History against 
> Fiction.  So what I think people like this dood forget is that both 
> are representations, irrevocably divorced from historical truth, and 
> therefore kind of on equal footing.
>  
> Thoughts?
>

Not all representations are created equal.  For example, the holocaust 
occurred -- our inability to reach to the Objective Truth about it 
notwithstanding.

R.