Our history textbooks, our father's history textbooks and the history that is being taught to our children is, and has always been, fraught w/glaring omissions, bias, inaccuracies and outright lies. What has been glossed over or eliminated is usually more important than the bullshit that's being fed us. Columbus massacred natives. Teddy Roosevelt's human rights track record abroad rival's that of any current day despot. Jefferson held slaves while preaching humanitarianism. Woodrow Wilson's track record in central and So America is absolutely appalling. I, too, could go on. The people are given their heroes and conditioned to an idyllic notion of patriotism and the young, who for the most part are from the ranks of the underprivileged and disadvantaged are wound up, filled w/ piss and vinegar and then sent off to kill the enemy of the advantaged and support the business of the privileged and wealthy who are behind the scenes finessing the whole affair to their personal advantage.
We're born into the matrix, the World Bank and like minded organizations provide the clout and the corporations are the machines that run the show. Underneath the fireworks, the flag waving and all of the pomp and circumstance lies the real world.
