![]() ![]() Power, as Orwell warned, has everything to do with controlling the historical narrative, as people and institutions secure and maintain control (and money) by telling us how to think about, or deny, the foundations of the present-history.Ĭonsider then pre history, a subject that, while not at the forefront of our minds on a daily basis, has everything to do with how we perceive ourselves in the present. That strategy, hardly unique to Kremlin hardliners, remains common to fields of human endeavor where power politics are involved. ![]() ![]() Think of the effect of such tactics, dictating how people must think about the past so that they haven’t a clue about events that shaped the present-the program-ming of a generation. School children never learned of their existence, as the new bosses took over, molded minds, and exerted control. The more egregious examples of such power plays were evident in the old USSR, where rival leaders conveniently accused of ideological impurities were exiled or liquidated, then airbrushed from history. Who controls the present controls the past.” In his political novel 1984, George Orwell wrote, “Who controls the past controls the future. ![]()
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