WATCH: Preserving our History with Neil Oliver

The first obligatory lesson of history in any school worthy of holding a licence to teach children should be:

‘History is written by the winners’.

History is a carefully crafted narrative, almost never entirely truthful and spun entirely in the interests of those writing it. The British were experts at it, so are the Americans now.

The history of the Second World War has expunged the atrocities carried out by the Allies. We committed genocides through bombing campaigns, brutally murdering non-combatants in orgies of depraved willy waggling. But you don’t learn about them in school. It’s high time that children had to. It might make them realise that their home nations aren’t always ‘the goodies’.

The history of the First World War entirely erases the concept that the entire genocide was precipitated by senseless, entitled aristocrats thinking that life of others was worthless. But somehow, some senseless spin about ‘ze Kaiser’ being evil when the British Empire never saw the sun set on it was made to stick. As if all our global conquering was all done through rhetoric and not at the point of cannon, guns and bombings.

I wonder how many American children are taught about the bombing genocide of Serbia by psychopathic American orders? None, I would hazard a guess. How many are taught that Hillary Clinton showed herself to be an inhuman psychopath over her attitudes to the genocide of Libya? None. How many are taught that Madeleine Albright, Victoria Nuland and Nancy Pelosi are all the evidence you need that putting women in positions of power will NEVER change the way the world is run. It’s about time all American children were taught that women are capable of just as much inhuman evil as men…..and in thirty years, the same can be said of non-binaries, homosexuals, Jews, Muslims and Latinos.

One of the most ridiculous piles of dross put out by the propagandists is that innovation only occurs in countries spewing out genocides. It’s absolute lies of the first order. DNA wasn’t sequenced by Fred Sanger to kill Russians, he was a peaceful man who spent his time away from the lab tending to his garden. C60 wasn’t discovered by rabid warmongering prostitutes, it was discovered in a genuine academic institute pursuing curiosity-led enquiry.

Discoveries are made by those whose minds are open to absorbing information, have developed to the point that such information can be processed and synthesised and then courses of action undertaken to develop desired end-points.

My experience of the most aggressive, the most belligerent, the most war-like, is that they are the least capable of innovating. Their raison d’etre is conquest and destruction, not synthesis and living in harmony.

Everybody in life has a choice about whether to learn from history or not.

But if they haven’t learn the lesson that every history ‘book’ is part of a complex web of propaganda, much of which contradicts other parts of the web, then deep learning will become extremely difficult to achieve.