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Until lions have their own historians, hunting stories will continue to glorify hunters. (African proverb)

For people fighting other’s damn wars there are no winners or losers; just survivors. But be it as it may, glory has always gone to the victors; political history shows us that. (David Baldacci, The Whole Truth)

Does war serve as an entertainment function for the powerful to which they invite the powerless misers to be on the front line? (Henri Jeanson) "Guns don't kill people, people kill people…"

Wars are fought and won so that more wars have to be fought, because peace efforts are always fouled in civilian conferences. (James Clavell, Tai-Pan)

A history of dead myths?
To believe in an ‘official’ history means trusting the word of criminals. (Simone Weil)
Conventional history takes itself too seriously. It is the world’s original sin. History should have been tallied up differently.(Oscar Wilde,The Picture Dorian Gray)

History lessons exposed us to what happened50,100 r more years ago. The best history books autobiographies since many conventional historians chronicle(d) as per the wishes of the powers of the day thus being incapable of shaking off their ideological biases.(Juan Pablo Cardenas)

The West’ wrote its own history, overestimating its role considerably. Viewing the past from the perspective of the present has created a lot of unjustified myths and presents it as if the Renaissance and the Enlightenment

were really fundamental breakthroughs that gave the West an undeniable advantage and superiority. Could this be a far distance from the truth? We must move away from such easy black-and-white thinking. (Jack Goody)

Noteworthy, the fact that the role of corporate-endowed-foundations has also been successful in rewriting history in order to give presentations that are in line with their ideology and mission (English&Dutch East India Companies, Rockefeller, Bill&Melinda Gates foundations… )

another example - Recycle. Fly less. Eat less meat. These are some of the ways that we've been told can slow climate change.

But the inordinate emphasis on individual behavior is the result of a marketing campaign that has succeeded in placing the responsibility for fixing climate change squarely on the shoulders of individuals/consumers. (Michael Mann)

All big events of human history can also be seen in their contradictions (Esteban Valenti)
The barbaric aspects of human history have been grounded in intolerance --a fertile soil for classism, racism, fundamentalism and for the rise of totalitarian regimes.

But they are also the base of cries of anger towards those that feed nonsense recounts into conventional history. The vortex of deaths in history was too often encouraged by ultra-conservatism, fascism and communism and was tolerated, even supported,

by the three big monotheisms (Christianity, Judaism and Islam). Those who thought that the dark times of the past had been overcome and that history would eventually bring us objective knowledge, today must accept that they suffered from excessive optimism. (Victor Toledo)

Over-and-over such intolerance starved those rendered poor into submission or killed them by pain. As I look back upon man moving through history, I am haunted by a feeling of loss. So much has been surrendered and to such a little purpose.

There have been monstrous forms of torture and of denial whose ultimate origin was fear. (Oscar Wilde, op cit) “You do not see the river of tears that have been shed in history, because history still does not have in it a tear shed by you”. (Antonio Porchia)

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