Reply #9: perhaps....

[pretzel4gore]

the seed that falls in the desert can be anything; but it never sprouts, so debating its genomes just waste/time. But change has been happening in the desert, and to the seeds... power does corrupt, and modern world is awesomely powerful. Example- you can murder a million people in broad daylight and 'noone' knows about that. Where does this power come from?
History is not bunk, but it's also anti-myth, if one wants to learn from it. And history proves clearly that western democracies are not majority rule unless the majority is passive regards its own fate- and passive is not negotiable! Fictions are large part of how our society works; wolves and killer whales and gorillas were never monsters, but generation were taught that they were! Why is pot illegal? Could it have anything to do with the drug, booze and textile industries killing their competition (hemp was once among the largest farm crops in the country) agravated by white racism? Who killed the electric car? (the Model T was immediately converted/built as battery powered vehicle)...In fact, we have no idea how rich the story of electric car is, cuz, well the powers that be don't WANT YOU to think about it, cuz it's all about oil and power benefitting certain people. Did you know that it's estimated that 20 percent of the 'cowboys' in America's west were black? Did you know there were pre 'columbian' African campsites excavated on the Brazil coast, with steles from West Africa still standing today? Columbus was only unusual in that he brought disease, and planned to nazi style exterminate any people found in 'new lands', yet myth has made the ungodly pervert a hero. There's a documented case of North America Indians being shipwrecked off coast of Holland in 11th century; how many have even heard of that? Or the fossil record of the bison herds which show the herd were 20 million range for thousands of years until about 16th century, when suddenly, inexplicably, they shot up to 100 million by 18th century, when settlers complained it often took a week for a herd to pass by! History ignores that it was after columbus in 1500 that the Amerindian population went into tailspin- researchers argue that between 50 as many as 125 million people simply disappeared from the Americas. Maybe the fiction the land was 'empty' for colonists needs the lil ole lie to work?
There a 15 thousand Bill Gates just in Haiti alone...
Jack the Ripper was id'd in 1888, when John Druitt was pulled outta Thames river: his family told police he was insane, and probably killing the streetwalkwers; yet look at thousands of books, entire industry based upon the fiction (which hardly struck Victorian English as a good idea to admit an upper class aristocrat was butchering homeless women- what harm could be caused by hiding the truth in the police record? After all, the deed was a low class one, typical of the East End London blacks, and why should gentlemen get stuck with the blame just because one of 'ours' had mental breakdown? it's not fair...)
One could spend all day refuting the simplistic view of history, but it take lotsa work- look at the ripper case and try untangle the obvious ...look at the JFK murder and give Lee Oswald back his good name (the guy was a government ONI agent ON DUTY ferchrissake when he was set up by his own bosses!) Try prove that!
It's easier to drink the kool aid...