Let's suppose you are rummaging in the kitchen cabinets and a restraunt sized can of baked beans falls out and bonks you on the head. Instant amnesia. No memories at all.

In that case you would not know who you are, where you came from, what beliefs had guided your life, what kind of parents and grandparents you had. Everything behind the present moment would be a blank. Now let's suppose you are summoned before an august body of men with credentials up the kazoo and government jobs and grants. As you are seated in front of them, like a private before a court martial, they tell you they have your complete life history.

Then they proceed to tell you who you are, who your ancestors were, what they did or didn't do. In short, they fill in your idenity, and, without any memories of your own, you would have no way of knowing if they were telling the truth or not. By supplying you with a past, they would fix your present idenity.

That is essentially the plight of any citizen who is ignorant of history. He has no memory of his own nation and his own ancestors and is therefore vulnerable to being manipulated. The English writer, George Orwell, who understood totalitarianism so well, spelled it out in his nightmarish novel, 1984.

"The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon," the villian explains. "And since the party is in full control of the minds of its members, it follows that the past is whatever the party chooses to make it. Six means eighteen, two plus two equals five, war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength."

Subsitute the word "establishment" for "party" and you have a pretty good idea of the present situtation of Americans who are conditionally provided the offical version of American history.

Control what people think and believe, and you control their behavior. I truly believe that the single-biggest problem young generations of Americans will face is staying free, and the only way they can do that is to educate themselves above and beyond what the establishment insitutions will provide. If you don't take control of your own life, somebody else will!

Written By: Judie Web

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