Wednesday, December 19, 2012

I need an oil change

I'm thinking about who owns history. Museums, historians, government, the public
I thought of this-




History is like a car, sometimes you need a professional to tune it up, and some people prefer to work on their own cars- but they don’t own it any more or less then the person who relied on the mechanic. Likewise, the mechanic does not own the car (probably has their own car), but rather knows how to make it run. Some people have expensive cars with well known names, some people drive old cars that still run, some people like to collect cars that don't run anymore because they just like them. They still own the car, they still make claims to it and it affects who they see themselves as and how others see them.