4. History and the myth of objectivity.

“Everyone is biased, whether they know it or not, in possessing fundamental goals, purposes, and ends…Perhaps the closest we can get to objectivity is a free and honest marketplace of subjectivities, in which we can examine both orthodox accounts of the past and unorthodox ones, commonly known facts and hitherto ignored facts. But we need to try to discover (which is not easy) what items are missing from that marketplace and insist that they be available for scrutiny. We can then decide for ourselves, based on our own values, which accounts are most important and most useful. Anyone reading history should understand from the start that there is no such thing as impartial history…The pretense of objectivity conceals the fact that all history, while recalling the past, serves some present interest.”

-Howard Zinn.