It was probably the invention of video because people could see what wars and holocausts look like, instead of reading about the crusades through prism of arthurian stories which were crusade propaganda.
If people had videos back in medieval times there probably wouldn't be crusades or if they had videos in 16th century there might not be holocaust of Mayans and Incas.
That's why it is very restricted to shoot videos in war zones today. For instance, back when war in Vietnam started the U.S. military knew nothing of news management and gave the world’s media unrestricted access to its operations, which inevitably included onslaughts on thatched villages by high-tech helicopters and the immolation of women and children by a jellied petroleum incendiary called napalm. Which, for instance, overnight launched huge protests in Britain who was not involved with the war but wanted it stopped.
If people had videos back in medieval times there probably wouldn't be crusades or if they had videos in 16th century there might not be holocaust of Mayans and Incas.
That's why it is very restricted to shoot videos in war zones today. For instance, back when war in Vietnam started the U.S. military knew nothing of news management and gave the world’s media unrestricted access to its operations, which inevitably included onslaughts on thatched villages by high-tech helicopters and the immolation of women and children by a jellied petroleum incendiary called napalm. Which, for instance, overnight launched huge protests in Britain who was not involved with the war but wanted it stopped.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
