The internet. It creates a record of actual history. Or, it creates a record as they want it told.
“the most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered…History has stopped. Nothing exists except the endless present in which the party is always right”
Ten years or more from now, if you were to research this period in time, what would be your conclusions?
Ten years or more from now, if you were to research this period in time, what would be your conclusions?
This thought is what lead me to make this post. I tell my younger relatives that history is being re-written and retconned to fit a modern perspective. Then I ask them what they've been learning in school, and i hear there insanely impossible "history" lessons.
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