Rewritten History, Orwellian Style.

Here is an example: Sept = 7, oct = 8, nov = 9, dec = 10 (decimal/tenth). So why is September the 9th month, October the 10th, November the 11th and December the 12th. December should be the 10th month, shouldn’t it?

Let’s see, that would make the New year around March first – or most likely March 21st at the Spring Equinox. Whoever decided the New Year should be in the middle of winter? Obviously, at some point in history things got changed, and these days I bet most people never thought that dec means 10.

The important thing to note about the calendar is this cannot have happened by accident or evolution. People did not suddenly wake up one morning and all decide to move the time for the New Year. Some person or persons in power had to make the change. In this case, it was Pope by the name of Gregory the Great.

So, the question for the day: Is this kind of rewriting of life happening today? Yes.
First, an obvious one that some people still understand:

False: The Civil War was a war to free the slaves.

True: The Civil War was fought because many southerners believed their states, communities and individual rights were being trampled on by a national government out of control. The Southern answer was to separate from that national government. The Northern answer was to “preserve the union.”

Slavery was deliberately not discussed for two years of the war because of the hope that the Southern states might yet be reunited peacefully. When the Emancipation Proclamation was finally passed and signed, it was done with the hope that it would cause a spontaneous uprising of slaves in the south that would cripple the southern economy. It did not happen…

False: European colonialism was perpetrated by aggressor nations and greedy men who oppressed people and suppressed local cultures in order to gain economic advantage, steal the native resources and enrich the looting nations

True: In the thinking of the time, the world was seen as progressing from worse to better, from primitive societies to civilization. It was the same kind of progressive thinking that produced the theories of Marx and Darwin and caused the founding fathers of the United States to want to “form a more perfect union.”

Far from being exploitative, the Europeans believed they were giving the people of the world, some of whom were still living a stone age existence, the best that they had. It was their moral imperative to bring the benefits of civilization to “backwards” nations. They believed the spread of western, Christian civilization was right, good and true and for the benefit, not detriment of the world. And this colonialization, though far from perfect, was always driven, not by greed, but by the highest ethical standards. Indeed, Ghandi himself was clear when he said his passive resistance would be utterly ineffective against anyone who held to a lower moral ground than the British.

False: Food, clothing, shelter and (now) healthcare are human rights.

True: Life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness and the original word that was taken out because of the slavery issue, that is, property are rights. You own your thoughts, your beliefs, your labor, your things and (yes) your money, and what you do with them is your decision. The United States Constitution spelled out some rights for all to understand: freedom of conscience – to assemble with others and worship as you please, freedom of speech and the press, freedom to defend yourself, your family and your property against tyranny. These are rights. Why? Because they depend only on you to do with what is yours as you see fit.

Food, clothing, shelter, education and healthcare are not rights. They are entitlements according to our current rulers, but they are not rights. Why? Because they depend upon others, specifically stealing from others in order to insure them to you!

You can see, this is just the tip of the iceberg. Life is being rewritten by those with power and influence, and it is being rewritten under our very noses. Perhaps the second question should be, why?


-MichaelThe Fiction Side: The Storyteller http://mgkizzia.wordpress.com/ The Non-Fiction Side: Word & Spirit http://michaelkizzia.wordpress.com/