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TOPIC: ISSUE48 - "The study of history places too much emphasis on individuals. The most significant events and trends in history were made possible not by the famous few, but by groups of people whose identities have long been forgotten."
WORDS: 359 TIME: 00:45:00 DATE: 2010-2-19 22:01:49
The assertion is that the study of history places too much emphasis on individuals, which is maily basing on that most important events and so forth are made by scads of people instead of famous few. But to combine them as an cause_effect relationship, which is obivious for us that the two sentences don't have, in order to convince us, it seems a little bit dizzy and confusing.
What kind of individual does the historians put too much emphasis on, and what' the difference to delve into one guy or the most of others, at last why cann't we just do our research of history from that, mainly because the latter reason?
To figure it out, i think we should get started from individuals first. Illustrated by our author's assumption that individuals often means someone that stands for the important events, in other words, they play their roles in them as some leaders or something like that. But i reckon that what historians really care about is not what kinds of status they acquainted in this historic incidents, but what kind of characters he featured in this big shoot. Imagine that you watch a movie how about Avatar, block_buster arond the world for instance, what really intriges you when you saw it, the ups and downs plot of the cinemactor or the surroundings(eg some others irrelevant guys or environments)? Answer is obvious. They are the key or essence that leads the story happen, how could we to dig into history of the events without them, and i think it is never too much concentration on them.
Curious it will be to elict the most tricky question what is the difference between the scads of people and famous personages. Just owing to that they are not leaders on the stage or something else. Thoughts linger in my head. I think they are no difference between them, at least at the level of history constrution, they are the same important as you can not live on either water or food but both of them. In some sense, the two distinctive majorities share most in common. Yeah as what i compared before, they are on the same stage and exerts their own efforts to this play. They have same costume style, same language, same background and so forth. So we can get one rearing from each other, it's not about some special, it's public own personalities. To focus on one, it is just more easy for us to depict the outline of the view centuries proceeding us, without any intentions to give someone more privileges to express us, whereas it's us who misunderstand what the real goal of that.
After intervening the connection between some individuals and common populaces, i think it is more easy for us to understand that they exists not only in the big or eminent events but also penetrating into everyday life_consisting of longevity history. I also have another stance to stress. The positions don't stand still, sometimes or always, they transmute into each other. For example, it's like a team work, for different goals, you choose different one as your leader to make your conjunct interest to come true on the reason that everyone has his own strong suit.
Given that complicated relation between individual and mass, it's hard to easily to say that too much emphasis on individuals or only important events involving in common people-both of them are a little bit unilateral, and what really needs our attention is that if we put much more personal characters on individuals over the common one. |
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