Re: [ARSCLIST] Is there a good history of EMI out there ?

[Don Cox <doncox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 13/11/07, Steven C. Barr(x) wrote:

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Don Cox" <doncox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> It is astonishing how difficult it is to establish correct historical
>> facts. I think everyone's mind wants to simplify and romanticise
>> whatever happened. Hence the importance of physical, dated documents.
>> 
> With the necessary caveat..."if/when such documents still exist...?!"
> which is NOT guaranteed to be the case...!
> 
> Second...it is inevitable, as long as history is being researched by
> human beings, that each and every "researcher" will have his/her/its
> own opinion(s) with respect to the events in question (the harsh
> reality is that the only people interested enough in the situation
> to want to create documentation thereof are ALSO the participants
> who by definition support certain specific interpretations of such
> historic facts that ARE known...?!).
> 
> Each and every one of us maintains a personal, and slightly differing,
> opinion as to "what ACTUALLY happened!"

Absolutely.
> 
> Until computers reach the necessary level of internal competence to
> keep honest, not-personally-edited lists of applicable events...we
> are stuck with accounts created by folks with personal interests in
> the stories...?!
> 
By the time computers become that intelligent, they will have prejudices
too. I would bet that a history of 20C music compiled by a computer
would place a heavy emphasis on electronic and digital music.   ;-)

Regards
-- 
Don Cox
doncox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx