Lack Of Knowledge In The 21st Century

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In the 21st century, where new information for knowledge is being created faster than can be absorbed the discarding of information is questioned. Discarded, however, is a very direct term. The terms means to throw away because it is useless or unwanted (Discard). Although people seem to be “throwing away” the information that they base their knowledge on, they are only improving it. It is key to continue to grow as a species and advance the information people obtain and understand. For this reason, the improvement to knowledge allows humans a clearer understanding of themselves.
This statement is of value in the natural sciences.
The natural science is an area of knowledge that has seen many changes in knowledge in a short amount of time, …show more content…

In the natural sciences, information is changed because there is new and relevant information that trumps the old. Yet in history, the area of revisionist history holds less prestige. Just as the natural sciences goal is to learn more about humans, so does revisionist history. It is a historian’s job to discover the fallacies and incontinences in our history and make the edits to provide accurate knowledge (Zinn). In this way, information that is regarded as true one day can quickly change the next. For example the saying “Columbus sailed the blue in 1492” is a phrase that is sung by many American school children even today. The celebration on October 10th to commend the courageous and heroic Christopher Columbus has been halted in the United States. This is because the once romanticized version of Columbus achievements has been suppressed by the revisions revisionist historians have made. Columbus has now been associated as the a man of great brutality against the Native Indians of the area, the initiator of massacres, and a person driven by his desire for personal success (Zinn). There are even theories that suggest that Columbus was not the first man to discover the Americas (Zinn). The information above is discomforting to hear for many. That is because emotion is greatly tied to changes made in history, especially. Unlike the natural sciences where advancements and clarifications are openly accepted, changes to information connect to different emotions in this area of knowledge. History, which is the study of the past, is very valuable for society. From a young age, people learn to value history and base a large deal of our knowledge on it. As a society, people are emotionally connected

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