"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered, and the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute,. History has stopped, nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right."
This book was written 70 years ago. How prescient Orwell was. The destruction of our history, culture, faiths, educacation, arts, etal actually has been ongoing since....slowly, silently - now openly and accelerated.
Leni
Michelle Obama - Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we’re going to have to change our traditions, our history; we’re going to have to move into a different place.
Milans Kundera - You begin to liquidate a people by taking away its memory. You destroy its books, its culture, its history. And then others write other books for it, give another culture to it, invent another history for it. Then the people slowly begins to forget what it is and what it was.
George Orwell - The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history
Thomas Sowell - One of the most important reasons for studying history is that virtually every stupid idea that is in vogue today has been tried before and proved disastrous before, time and again.