BlackCatTango
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I could never say that I read a lot of history, but I am choosey about the things I do read and it is only because I am drawn to something that interests me in particular.
Yes, I can be considered ignorant about the subject of history as a whole. I had to look up in American Heritage Dictionary as to exactly what was meant by "historical method", so I will admit I can be more educated.
You are right that in recent generations, history is written by all who can write and much more preserved in these days. I have saved all the old letters from my grandmother's house from her relatives and the lady who brought her here from Europe. There's all sorts of history in them no doubt, as soon as I can get them translated but who would really care. History tends to be trendy and I am sure there is not enough "interesting" historical information in the letters to pay someone to translate them.
Behind the written history is the human motivations and the human nature that makes it happen.
And if there are world leaders and extremely wealthy men behind the scenes making decisions about the directions that they think world events should go, then they probably have at the core the motivation to protect their money and assets and bloodlines and they have enough money to make sure the average person doesn't know about what course of action they take to achieve their goals, especially if their actions don't match the PR image they would want you to have. They, like anyone here are motivated to protect what they value. They, no doubt value their money, their assets, their bloodlines and their positive public image.
Whoever amongst the average person heard of the Priory of Sion before The DaVinci Code? Of course that book is fiction but historical research about P of S itself was done in Holy Blood, Holy Grail. I don't happen to agree with everything written in that book but it gave me views that I didn't have before. And it does analyze the origins of P of S and more or less its evolution, and one understands the motivations of P of S to remain a secret society. It was a trans-generational society with the motivation to protect a bloodline.
TAJ -- no one here is disputing with your knowledge of history. You are apparently very well read in the field.
In fact, you apparently value it to the degree that you will protect and defend it and your teachers like the world leaders/power brokers protect their assets, power and wealth. It seems to be a part of human nature to protect and defend one's assets, whatever they are.
Why is it so hard for you to wrap your head around the possibility that the very wealthy and very powerful would conspire not only to keep a certain status quo, but would also direct the course of world events. "Secret" societies are secret for a reason and wealthy persons can control others in the way they use their wealth and power.
Conspiracy theorists have their fringe groups and individuals as well, that make all sorts of claims and dramatize their paranoia. But just because some people make claims in which you can't believe because you've never seen it for yourself or read about it yourself or you just don't like what they write/the way they write it doesn't mean that all people who talk or write about conspiracy theory totally have it all wrong?
Yes, I can be considered ignorant about the subject of history as a whole. I had to look up in American Heritage Dictionary as to exactly what was meant by "historical method", so I will admit I can be more educated.
You are right that in recent generations, history is written by all who can write and much more preserved in these days. I have saved all the old letters from my grandmother's house from her relatives and the lady who brought her here from Europe. There's all sorts of history in them no doubt, as soon as I can get them translated but who would really care. History tends to be trendy and I am sure there is not enough "interesting" historical information in the letters to pay someone to translate them.
Behind the written history is the human motivations and the human nature that makes it happen.
And if there are world leaders and extremely wealthy men behind the scenes making decisions about the directions that they think world events should go, then they probably have at the core the motivation to protect their money and assets and bloodlines and they have enough money to make sure the average person doesn't know about what course of action they take to achieve their goals, especially if their actions don't match the PR image they would want you to have. They, like anyone here are motivated to protect what they value. They, no doubt value their money, their assets, their bloodlines and their positive public image.
Whoever amongst the average person heard of the Priory of Sion before The DaVinci Code? Of course that book is fiction but historical research about P of S itself was done in Holy Blood, Holy Grail. I don't happen to agree with everything written in that book but it gave me views that I didn't have before. And it does analyze the origins of P of S and more or less its evolution, and one understands the motivations of P of S to remain a secret society. It was a trans-generational society with the motivation to protect a bloodline.
TAJ -- no one here is disputing with your knowledge of history. You are apparently very well read in the field.
In fact, you apparently value it to the degree that you will protect and defend it and your teachers like the world leaders/power brokers protect their assets, power and wealth. It seems to be a part of human nature to protect and defend one's assets, whatever they are.
Why is it so hard for you to wrap your head around the possibility that the very wealthy and very powerful would conspire not only to keep a certain status quo, but would also direct the course of world events. "Secret" societies are secret for a reason and wealthy persons can control others in the way they use their wealth and power.
Conspiracy theorists have their fringe groups and individuals as well, that make all sorts of claims and dramatize their paranoia. But just because some people make claims in which you can't believe because you've never seen it for yourself or read about it yourself or you just don't like what they write/the way they write it doesn't mean that all people who talk or write about conspiracy theory totally have it all wrong?