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Troll History
Fake events, people, history books, even statues in parks. | |
Truth and fiction are hard to separate sometimes when
reviewing history.
Fake historical events would make people aware that
sometimes history lies. There would be no real problem
of
long term damage to the collective memory in this, the
information age because you could easliy look up
Cornwittiker
Tyler Foly's first trip under the polar ice cap
in a metal tube powered by the movement of the current
in 1876.
"Cornwittiker Tyler Foly: Fake historical figure featured
in
fake historical event of first trip under the polar ice
cap."
Fun fact: My aunt's second husband was the navigator on
the Nautilus. At dinner once I asked him about it. His
obviously often repeated standard joke was "It was easy,
I just set the controls for north." Became a boomer
captain after that. I asked him if he carried nuclear
missiles and he said "I can neither confirm or deny the
presence of nuclear weapons on any of the submarines I
commanded."
Thought that was kind of fun.
Fake history? Maybe.
Spoof museums
Spoof_20Museums
Prior Art. [8th of 7, Nov 07 2019]
[link]
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//navigator on the Nautalus// I wonder if he knew the
navigator on the near-namesake, the Nautilus? |
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Christ Max, that was up for probably 15 seconds
before I caught it and changed it. (without your prompting)
Jesus. |
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History never lies, because it can't, people lie, ultimately
all
history is second hand accounts received from
people, so
inevitably some history 'is' lies. |
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Anyone who can't string that together & treat history with
the
necessary caution it deserves is unlikely to be helped by
this
idea, it will only further muddy the waters. |
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It's a bit like arguing for more guns to counter gun
crime. |
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Silly, pointless & ultimately damaging, I like it! [+] |
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// Christ Max, that was up for probably 15 seconds before I changed it. // |
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We watch everything you do. Everything. Every waking and sleeping moment of your life, you are watched. Every breath you take, every move you make, every bond you break, every step you take, we'll be watching you. |
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Excuse us a moment, [xenzag] has moved slightly and we need to re-aim the Trump Paranoia GM Global Warming Child Abuse brane ray ... |
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As we said, Big Brother is watching you. No, don't even think of unplugging the toaster. The toaster is not spying on you. Don't unplug the floor lamp either, though. |
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Well the idea here is that putting fake stories out
like this would be sort of a lesson. "Check the story
before believing it." |
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Would people actually believe the story about
Cornwittiker Tyler Foly's first trip under the polar
ice cap in a metal tube powered by the movement
of the current in 1876? Maybe, until somebody told
them they've been trolled, at which time they'd be
a little more careful checking their sources. |
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Might be a good thing no? |
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It certainly would, but is that you thinking that, or is it a thought that's somehow crept in from outside ? |
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How do you know it's a real thought, and not a fake one ? |
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Do we need to teach you Phenomenology ? |
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"doctorremulac3, return to the bomb bay". |
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On the plus side, at least it's not in Other:Gener ... oh, wait ... |
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History is rewritten by the whiners |
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//Would people actually believe the story about Cornwittiker
Tyler Foly's first trip// |
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Probably. They believed in Piltdown Man for a long time.
And Dutch newspapers in the 1820s were full of updates on
Janssen's exploration of the Amazon, despite the fact that he
and his two ships were hiding in the Canary Islands. |
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That was clever, being as it's now been proved that the Canary Islands don't exist and he was actually staying in a boarding house on the Isle of Wight ... |
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The Isle of White (as it's now known) was only renamed in
1870 after it was
gifted by the crown to Lord Whiteside of Argyle, if you'd
bothered to look at any older land deeds you'd have known
that it
was previously known as Canary Island (the names origins
come from the older
Kanwherry, a kind of fermented pilchard paste made by the
locals), it's a failure to
research
your history properly that causes these kind of conspiracy
theories [8th], shame on you for a lack of diligence in your
research. |
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We looked it up, we really did, in Authoritative Documentation. Bah. That's the last time we buy those cheap Christmas crackers from Tesco, bloody rubbish they are .... half of them didn't even go bang properly ... |
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Not to double down on devious or anything, but you could
also flip this and pass around fake "debunking" stories
which would probably be a lot more popular since people
love conspiracy theories. Crap like: |
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Abe Lincoln was actually a woman, Carla Fluorbanks
McNeail, the first trans politician, hair transplanted from
the top of her scalp to her chin is why "he" always wore
the hat. To cover the scars. |
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They don't not need to un-not be stupid to catch
on. |
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OK, that hoax is available. I did a search of "Was Abe
Lincoln a...?" and Google suggested (in this order) |
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A Republican, A Republican or Democrat, A Democrat, A
lawyer, shot in the head, left handed, a founding father,
(we're doomed) married, a senator, and my favorite,
ladies and gentleman, the number ten most requested
question about Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the
United States of America is... "Was Abe Lincoln a vampire
hunter." |
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Did I mention we're doomed? |
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According to a reputable source (I think...), Lincoln used to share his bed in the Whitehouse with one of his security men, because it reminded him of doing something similar when money was tight as a student. |
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The problem provides its own solution. |
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Just start a rumour that something inimical to humans is
fun, really
tasty, improves sex, will make you live forever, etc. |
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& those stupid
enough
to fall for it will remove themselves from society & the
gene
pool without any further intervention on your part. |
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"The real reason they don't want you to eat arsenic ..." |
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"So let me get this straight, this one weird trick that the
millionaires don't want me to know about will raise my
income AND
increase the size of my manhood? Shut up and take my
money!". |
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<Places self-addressed envelope and USD $5 of [MB]'s money in outer envelope, writes [doc]'s address on it, drops in mailbox/> |
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<Adopts hopeful expression, settles down to wait for postman/> |
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