Filter of History

History is passed through the filter. Is it filtering of the human brain or filtering of the author's pen? The assassination of Kennedy, or the explosion of a challenger of my generation, has a way to burn our mind. We remember where I am, what I am doing, and even the things I am wearing. People will think that details of such events are still quite accurate from person to person, but this is not true. As in the example shown in the selection of reading after the end of the civil war, some people just choose to remember the courage of white soldiers, not the reason the brothers oppose their brothers.

Historic evolutionary filters ensure that only wonderful things survive and are therefore remembered; history, natural selection, and the evolution theory of Darwin leaves nostalgia as it also missed bad or boring things I suggest that. A little "biased towards purpose" or natural design. "The sea is shaping the design of the ship - not designers, thinkers, engineers." M. Ridley's life is full of huge rocks that can not be moved and we make nearly unrestricted subtle decisions according to our own wishes can do. You can not move all the big stones, but you can choose what the big stone is, what the focus is and build your life. Then, let the rest fill the cracks and fill our bottle, which is a finite life cycle.

In Latin American novels it is not unusual to filter impulses of national history through family talk. Colombian history "full of farms", each brothers and sisters are explained in alternate chapters, in particular in the family record holder Antonio section; he is the source of property that can be traced back to the end of the Revolutionary War I will explain the colonization of the south territory of the river. There, the Colombian Arcadia project of the 19th century eventually collapsed under the pressure of La Viorencia (a conflict between liberal and conservatives was summoned), and guerilla, paramilitary organization, drug trafficking , Illegal mining and final real estate. Speculation of arrival