The Sides of History. Chris Paul
During part of 1941 and 1942, when the Luftwaffe was busy in Russia, the German radio regaled its home audiences with stories of devastating air raids on London. Now, we are aware that those raids did not happen. But what use would our knowledge be if the Germans conquered Britain? For the purposes of a future historian, did those raids happen, or didn’t they? The answer is: If Hitler survives, they happened, and if he falls, they didn’t happen. So with innumerable other events of the past ten or twenty years. Is the Protocols of the Elders of Zion a genuine document? Did Trotsky plot with the Nazis? How many German aeroplanes were shot down in the Battle of Britain? Does Europe welcome the New Order? In no case do you get one answer which is universally accepted because it is true: in each case you get a number of totally incompatible answers, one of which is finally adopted as the result of a physical struggle. History is written by the winners.
George Orwell
We are consistently reminded by our betters that we will end up on the Wrong Side of History - a History that will be written by the winners, a History that will be written by them. The History they write is simply one story about reality written and rewritten in order to maintain a generalized sense of continuity over time, even as facts, characters, places, and chronologies shift before the eyes of its observers. To win is to control the means of information in a quest to control all the other means. Control over the means of information allows our betters to be ever on the right side of history as they perpetually reinterpret the past, present, and future. What was never was and mustn’t ever be spoken of again. What is is what works for them.
Those who prepare for us our place on the wrong side of history rewrite our history in public. We must learn our History and if they change it, we must learn it again. Words we heard them say moments ago become words never actually said, even as they repeat the same words over again. We must have misheard or misunderstood, we’re told. What’s important is that we are wrong, regardless. They decontextualize and recontextualize the past, inverting the meaning, making themselves always humanity’s saviors in the face of the very savagery they blame, always, on those who resist them. To be history’s winners, they must not only have been the ones who conquered, what they conquered must therefore have been evil, because the good always win, and here we stand. This allows them to conquer again as needed. The job is never over. It is righteous work, we’re told.
The history of our ancestors is a History of chaos and destruction by savages, written by the winners, or so they would have us believe. Since we are the people still here, still ostensibly thriving, the savages were clearly not like us. Being like us is what allowed us to advance. We won, after all, did we not? We are collectively writing this History, all of us winners, and we agree with this right side of History even as it evolves and changes. The details matter not at all.
George Orwell
We are consistently reminded by our betters that we will end up on the Wrong Side of History - a History that will be written by the winners, a History that will be written by them. The History they write is simply one story about reality written and rewritten in order to maintain a generalized sense of continuity over time, even as facts, characters, places, and chronologies shift before the eyes of its observers. To win is to control the means of information in a quest to control all the other means. Control over the means of information allows our betters to be ever on the right side of history as they perpetually reinterpret the past, present, and future. What was never was and mustn’t ever be spoken of again. What is is what works for them.
Those who prepare for us our place on the wrong side of history rewrite our history in public. We must learn our History and if they change it, we must learn it again. Words we heard them say moments ago become words never actually said, even as they repeat the same words over again. We must have misheard or misunderstood, we’re told. What’s important is that we are wrong, regardless. They decontextualize and recontextualize the past, inverting the meaning, making themselves always humanity’s saviors in the face of the very savagery they blame, always, on those who resist them. To be history’s winners, they must not only have been the ones who conquered, what they conquered must therefore have been evil, because the good always win, and here we stand. This allows them to conquer again as needed. The job is never over. It is righteous work, we’re told.
The history of our ancestors is a History of chaos and destruction by savages, written by the winners, or so they would have us believe. Since we are the people still here, still ostensibly thriving, the savages were clearly not like us. Being like us is what allowed us to advance. We won, after all, did we not? We are collectively writing this History, all of us winners, and we agree with this right side of History even as it evolves and changes. The details matter not at all.
It's kinda fun to wait for it, to wait for it, to wait for it . . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_ykY...
To get on a truck's mic to say, "Keep firing at saucers" made me dino say, "Duh!"
How do you like this one King dino ?
https://gab.com/RalphderErste/posts/1...
One must realize that the confounding of our language goes beyond the spoken and the written; it includes everything in our lives.
So...perhaps the only truths are the one's we each lived and remembered. It seems we have always been coerced by being ruled by our lowers, those we found wanting.
We are the Elite on the Street and presumably ruled by the Great Unwashed.