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the truth we know
This post is inspired by a song by Project Pitchfork called Existence
Here is an exerpt of the lyrics of the song:
did someone realize
that our life is based
on the history we've been taught
we are living the results of a lie
fundamental facts
have been changed and changed
again by the ......
and we keep their lie alive
It brings up an issue that I've been contemplating for years. We're taught our world history all through our childhood. These are simply things that we are made to believe as facts, but we have no way of knowing if any of it is true or not. We should all know that to the victor goes the spoils and also creative license in the history books. Some of the things that make you proud to be who you are today may not have been as they are in the books, or they may not have been at all.
Some say that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it, but what are we supposed to learn from history that has been fabricate?
There are a few of us here who do not care to wave the flag of our ancestors. This would make it easier for us to rest on this theory that history may not be like you think it is. As a small example, we can look at the USA's founding fathers and how they owned slaves and had mistresses - these things are not taught in school to small children. That's easy, though, because it wasn't too far back in history.
If that was easy enough to accept, consider that even bigger things in history, like the story of your country's independance, your religion, someone else's religion, the rise and fall of past nations, the causes of wars and such... have all undergone a bit of airbrushing to make them more appealing and acceptable. There some things that historians cannot touch, but we still take what they say for granted.
The moral of this is: have pride in yourself and only yourself, for it is the only entity that you truly know.
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