The Fallacy of Presentism

• We cannot judge stories and texts by our standards, but by the standards of when the text was written.
• Applying a modern idea to an old text
• Example:
  • Captain America - Man out of time
    • Originally a nazi smasher
    • Encouraging america to get involved in the war WW2.
    • Then moved to commie fighter.
    • Man Out of Time
      • Figure of nostalgia
    • Then bro wasn't racist
    • Then civil war
      • Libertarian individualism vs goverment oversight
    • MCU captain broski
    • New name on mcu broski
• How to use our focus to analyze using this?
  • Language used
  • Characters and their behaviours
  • Events during that time
    • How were these events interpreted
  • Culture
  • The author themselves
  • 1984 and Historical Criticism