What is taught to most of the American population concerning history, is largely erroneous when compared to the truth. Most of what American's learn as general history is narrowed down to only the Revolution and the Civil War. All other historical references about cultures, societies, and world wide events are sparsely talked about, and in some cases left out. Leaving the students of America, without any conception of the reality of events that may or may not have happened. Having a correct and abundant understanding of history from all around the world is essential to viewing our current status and how we got here.
The dilemma with re-educating Americans on history, is finding a credible and unadulterated source. Most of the history text books in America have been blemished with disinformation due to the involvement of the RAND corporation. Amongst groups such as the Rockefeller Trust, the RAND corporation undermines educational information in order to hide details that would further lead to suspicion, conspiracies, and ultimately indictments. The level of disinformation fed to the public can be at the level of covering up murders and hiding criminal acts; or may be as inane as denying that certain military locations exist as well as the incredible weapons systems that are being used there (AREA 51). Regardless of what kind of disinformation is fed to the public, the truth remains unreachable due to the simple task of never properly educating the masses on general history.
"Without a basic conception of time and events, we can never realize that there are missing pieces to a picture that makes up the journey of mankind through-out the ages..."
Destroying the credibility of historians or great-thinkers in history is also something that has to be taken into account when trying to keep the public stupid and mindless. People, regardless of any precedence, will account events in order to capture a perspective on the moments they lived in. Any man, woman, or child will create biographies of their lives in order to leave behind a "living memory". It is the fundamental mannerism of people to share stories, especially "true" stories. This information, can benefit the public by endorsing a rational status quo, or if cleverly manipulated can destroy the point of view of many future generations. All in all, destroying the credibility of these historians is important if you want to re-educated the population with disinformation.
Another form of manipulating the educational process is leaving out facts that would otherwise, contribute to a larger understanding of a situation. Such is the case when noting that the financial bank that funded Adolph Hitler WWII is also the same bank that funded Britain, and America to fight against the Nazi army. Not many people are familiar with that small factoid, but knowing this gives you a different perspective of why WWII really occurred. Leaving out this small but vital piece of information changes the ability of the public to recognize, that all is not as it seems.
In recent times American's have found that they are constantly being lied to and manipulated. Former President Bill Clinton's affirmation to the public about not engaging in elicit practices with his secretary was found to later be, a lie. The details behind the tragedy of September 11, 2001, are also in great speculation. Weather or not Islamic terrorists or even our own government was responsible for the deaths of U.S. citizens is a question still not properly and undeniably answered. Regardless of what anyone believes about the situation, we don't have any details to assume the truth. Details are essential to any story, if you want the reader to understand the story...
We must call upon ourselves to have "self-education". An education where we have learned what has been the truth and recognized what is lies. We should not depend upon others to inform us of what has been deemed public opinion, and we shouldn't take in truth anything that is still a theory. No one enjoys being lied to, no one enjoys being deceived. It's a part of our human instinct to want to trust and feel safe. When others try to mislead us by disinformation or bad education, then we loose footing on our sense of humanity and positive self-realization.
-Aramal Malik
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1 comment:
I agree, we can't expect others to tell us exactly what happened, when it happened, and why it happened. One thing we have to understand about history is that it's very much a story, and like stories they can exaggerated and even lies. I'm not going to say whether or not what we're told happened in the past is true or not. But I will say this, it's rather naive to think that one source of information provided by your school is the whole truth.
It would be wise to note to that in many cases your high school books aren't just steered towards on perspective or another but that even factual errors are very abundant. visit http://www.textbookreviews.org and look up the amount of mistakes made in most of the high school history books over the years.
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