HISTORY LESSON #147

Do you believe what you were taught in history class? Okay, so you believe it, but do you actually think it? A history book or an account of an event is only the writer's version, and objectivity has been extinct for many centuries. Scholars say that the history of a war is always written by the winner.

Imagine a collision of a convertible with a cement mixer at a busy downtown intersection on a rainy day. Which witness or participant are you going to believe when the drivers disagree and several bystanders tell conflicting stories? If one of them writes the official account of the accident, the truth and nothing but the truth will never make it on paper.

Henry Ford said, "All history is bunk." Think about it.

Reading only one book about what happened in days-gone-by is simply inadequate. The same goes for current history. Some of us trust television for the truth, others search the internet, newspaper lovers read it in the pages, and the true-believer types absorb what they hear from the self-assured voices on talk radio.

No single source listed above is enough to keep a self-governing people well informed. A good citizen needs the straight scoop, so you'll have to check out multiple sources.

Or you can just call me.


IT'S ALL SO SIMPLE.