HISTORY - TRUTH OR FICTION - A BIT OF BOTH

I believe that history, the stories passed down from generation to generation, have the underlying purpose of enhancing the image and position of the creators of that history. That does not mean necessarily that those who write the histories are culpable. Those who control the printing presses, the purchasers of school history books and those who control the dissemination of the information that becomes the generally accepted version of past events, are part of Power Elite political, information, and educational establishments. When enough time passes between the present and past events so that the information as a tool becomes useless to the current Power Elites, historical truth, or as much of it as can be obtained, comes out. At minimum, a generation must pass. Generally, a half century and often more must pass before those who managed to save the actual shards of the broken vessels of truth (or their heirs or protégés) are allowed to present those truthful elements of historical events intentionally hidden for nefarious purposes. Analogous situations of manipulating thinking are more readily shown by the connotative use of language to imprison ideas inimical to the Power Elites. The words, liberal, socialist, commie, right-wing, “support our troops,” atheist, and the like, are reasonable examples of how the plebes are educated and language used to create mind-sets just as “current” history is used for that purpose. In many other ways, the education of populations must produce pliable populations capable of being manipulated for the narrowly common good of the Power Elites.