~ George Orwell, 1984
"It is astonishing that those in the West are living through the near extinction of their civilization. For students in the academy today, the Western civilization history course, virtually a standard curriculum offering 30 years ago, has disappeared. . .
"Only 2 percent of colleges offer western civilization as a course requirement. Remarkably, western civilization is rarely even required for history majors. . .
"In 1987, Jesse Jackson led Stanford protestors in a chant of 'hey-hey, ho-ho, Western civ has got to go.' The purpose of this demonstration was to eliminate a course on Western Civilization, and, Jackson and his ilk were successful. . .
"The course that stood as the foundation stone in the curriculum was shattered like pie crust by an ideological bandwagon." (Herbert L. London, Dec. 13, 2011)
What had to go? What had to go were the knowlege of the achievements both in deed, in thought, the literature, and of course, the bedrock of western civilization, Christianity. The question is, "Why?" Why the attack on and the desctruction of the study of the history of western civilization which would include the study of American history?
We are tasting the sour fruit of history's demise. For at least two generations our eduational system has produced loonatics devoid of the facts and principles of the past. Instead of learning from the past, their educators have indoctrinated them to judge of the past. This is so vital that we must ask for the "why." Why destroy the history of a nation?
George Orwell in his classic, "1984,"a book that ought to be required reading by students in every school everywhere and by adults yearly, answered that question.
He wrote that if a tyranny is to exist and sustain itself, the history of a country must be erased, even streets must be renamed, and fear and confusion must abound. The destruction of history didn't just happen, it came about by deliberate design in order to pave the way to tyranny.
Once they erase the history of a nation, the dominoes begin to fall. Once their hisotry is gone, the people have no past reference points. In Israel God ordained that Israel retain its memory of its history. The classic example of such retention is the Passover which was to be observed and explained once a year, every year, to their children by means of a special meal. The Passover was their reference point just as the Declation of Independence is America's reference point because it is America's birth certificate. The Lord's Supper functions for the same purpose in the church, it is a reference point that explains the death of the Savior.
Every tyrannt knows that when his regime erases the history of a nation, the people have no way to answer the question, "Was life better in the past before the revolution came?" Those born in Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 didn't know of any other way of life other than that undert he hobnailed boots of Lenin and Stalin. All those living in America today don't know of a time when there was no graduated income tax in AmericaKarl Marx made a graduatted income tax an emphasixed feature of "The Communist Manifesto" of 1848. When the people think that the graduated income tax always existed, they have no way to ask, "Was life better when there was no income tax? The tyrannt wins.
When history goes, an anchor goes, an anchor by which a person can find stability, somethhing to hold on to. These anchors function as historical information by which the individual can question the ideology of the reigning tyrannical ideology. Without a knowlege of history he can't battle against the powers that be because he has no weapons with which to do so. History is that weapon. To go further, he has no ability to even question the elite because he has no knowledge of history. To erase the historical memory of the how and the way of the Declation of Independence and the Constituition, the two basic ways to say that an action of the government is wrong disappears. The anchor is now in the boat and is no longer the stability of the vessel.
When a people's history is destroyed, the people become putty in the hands of the rulers, able to be molded into whatever the prevailing ideology is, because without a knowlege of their nation's history, they lose their national identity. Hence, the people have no way to know they're being molded, i. e. indoctrinated. Israel had a national identity going back to 2000 BC with the call of Abraham, an identity forged in the fires of slavery and deliverance therefrom at the Red Sea, and a national identity sent down from Mt. Sinai.
This brings us to the two words President Biden never said and why those two unsaid words are important. It goes back to an event in which the President was speaking by reading from a teleprompter. It was then that what was a joke in a movie happened; he read something he wasn't supposed to read, but was on the prompter as an instruction to him alone, "Repeat the line," meaning, "You say again what you just said." But he read it as part of the speech. He read the line then kept reading, saying the instruction on the telepromter that wss only for him, "Repeat the line" and he dutifully repeated it.
People have gotten a laugh at such a mind-numbing thing to do. But beneath the surface, it is not funny. This is where the scary part enters--something right out of "1984." The powers that be changed the official transcript of the speech for the "historical" record to say that he uttered two words before that, the words, "Let me" and that changes everything to sound logical as in, "Let me repeat the line." But, as clear as noontime sunshine, he didn't say, "Let me." The offical, government ordained transcript says that he did.
Our government rewrote history to the point that we're to believe that what we heard, we didn't hear. Orwell would say, "That's a protent of things to come. It's not funny."
It's not only statements that must be rewritten, the history of a the nation has to be changed and, lo and behold, the nation loses its national identity. If America's national identity is, "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America," history must be changed as it is in the 1619 Project.
That project is a massive upheaval of American history that abolishes July 4, 1776, as America's birth and replaces it with August 20, 1619, thus changing an anchor and a reference point as well as our national identity, all in one fell swoop. One author has said that the 1619 Project is an upheaval of history, "Do not let your children read it."
And that's where you and I enter the picture. We provide history for our children and their children. We read and provide them with the books of historians such as Carl J. Richard (on ancient Greece on Rome and the birth of America), Walter Lord, and the late David McCollough ("John Adams"). We ask them what they're studying in their history classes (if there are any). We relate the stories of history directly, telling them of Bunker Hill, the Alamo, the manly courage on the Titanic of "women and children first," and the sacrifices at Valley Forge, events that have forged the soul of our country.
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