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Wednesday, January 22, 2025
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Bieganski the Blog exists to further explore the themes of the book Bieganski the Brute Polak Stereotype, Its Role in Polish-Jewish Relations and American Popular Culture.
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Is does say "counterfactual". This is a book on statistical data analysis applied to history. People have a gut feeling about what decisions are good/bad and this tries to predict outcomes of alternatives and apply some math to it. It actually started out being used in psychological studies and philosophy. People suggest Poland should have done this or that instead of what they did. Very subjective gut feelings ( including the biases ). This tries and show why one path might be okay now but lead to a worse situation downstream. Killing baby Hitler, for example. People may think history changes because Hitler wasn't there but they never think maybe a more competent Hitler alternative fills the role, Britain and Europe fall and advances elsewhere.
ReplyDeleteI just recieved a few book on the topic and that was the first page I saw when I cracked open the book. It was a sign.
Reading Shirer's "Berlin Diaries" and other period works, Poland is viewed in a better light than the need to fulfill a Polish Joke quota and misrepresent history and roles. I'm hoping it will help me with my story but it reminds us that entropy applies to history just lie anything else in life and energy is required to counter the effects.