PHM-Exch> Food for a misleading historic thought (a)

[Claudio Schuftan]

Human Rights Reader 329a



*HISTORY TOLD IN A WAY THAT NO RATIONAL PERSON SHOULD SWALLOW?*



*I am afraid history has too often been widely used as a political
instrument.*



Ultimately, I see [mainstream]# historians defeated and denigrated to the
condition of pariahs left with only a chronology to which to hold on to.
This, despite their dream of chronicling history in a way that, at the end,
would vindicate them.

Historians have too often ‘reconstructed’ society to custom fit their own
(or their lackeys’) designs. Through their writing, they have used the
power to play with the destinies of ordinary people.

Historians ignore the repressions and genocides, the persecutions and mass
killing of innocent people, as well as the many infamous political deals,
the conquering violence of new rulers, the invasions, the geographic and
cultural annexations, the prostitution of ideas and ideals and the
condemnation of any dissidence by megalomaniacs. In doing so, they have
destroyed any notion of legality and have played on the credulity of later
generations.

Such historians miss digging out the bottom of things that chronicle the
obscure matters hidden down there, i.e., the millennium long dung --dung
that may be old and stale, but that needs to be brought up to the surface.
*The hypocrisy of mainstream history has shown rulers can get away with
murder.*

For the full Reader, go to

http://wp.me/plAxa-1Jt

Claudio
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