In today's vernacular, I am something of a historical revisionist because I feel compelled to review what is "known" about historical events and review them with any new evidence that has been found, thereby ensuring accuracy. However, since certain historical events have been so politicized that the truth has become a casualty to expedience, people like me have been smeared with the "revisionist" label because our uncovering of uncomfortable truths threatens to expose certain political movements for the lies that are at their very foundation. I won't discuss the specific historical events in this venue, but I will say that every (and I mean every) historical event has been allowed to be subjected to scrutiny and revised in light of new, more accurate evidence except for one. That one is important because it illustrates what is down the road for everybody and anybody who challenges the "wisdom" of the powers that be. I am called a revisionist because I choose to examine history with a critical eye, yet the real revisionists are the ones who distort the historical record to enslave the hearts and minds of the masses. To quote Orwell's 1984 again, "Who controls the past controls the future, Who controls the present controls the past." Think about that next time you hear about a "revisionist" historian being tried in a kangaroo court for daring to question someone's political "truth". ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING

"This process of continuous alteration was applied not only to newspapers, but to books, periodicals, pamphlets, posters, leaflets, films, sound tracks, cartoons, photographs -- to every kind of literature or documentation which might conceivably hold any political or ideological significance. Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct; nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary." (Chap. IV, 36) ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING

the lessons of "the davinci code" and the fact vs myth boils down to what educators have been doing for decades. it is called revisionist history.

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