Those who control the past control the present... and determine the future:
"In researching the Bush administration’s manipulation of public perceptions, I came across an interesting summary of the State Department’s Philip Zelikow, who was Executive Director on the 9-11 Commission, that greatest of all charades. According to Wikipedia:
"Prof. Zelikow’s area of academic expertise is the creation and maintenance of, in his words, 'public myths’ or 'public presumptions’ which he defines as 'beliefs (1) thought to be true ( although not necessarily known with certainty) and (2) shared in common within the relevant political community.’ In his academic work and elsewhere he has taken a special interest in what he has called 'searing’ or 'molding’ events (that) take on transcendent’ importance and therefore retain their power even as the experiencing generation passes from the scene….He has noted that 'a history’s narrative power is typically linked to how readers relate to the actions of individuals in the history; if readers cannot make the connection to their own lives, then a history may fail to engage them at all." ("Thinking about Political History" Miller center Report, winter 1999, p 5-7)
Isn’t that the same as saying there is neither history nor truth; that what is really important is the manipulation of epochal events so they serve the interests of society’s managers? Thus, it follows that if the government can create their own "galvanizing events", then they can write history any way they choose.
If that’s the case, then perhaps the entire war on terror is cut from whole cloth; a garish public relations maneuver devoid of meaning."
"Historians criticize editing of papers; Hit lags in works of US founders" by Jeffrey H. Birnbaum/Washington Post December 16, 2007
WASHINGTON - More than 200 years after they were written, huge portions of the papers of America's founding fathers are still decades away from being published, prompting a distinguished group of scholars and federal officials to pressure Congress to speed the process along.
Teams of researchers have been laboring since the Truman administration to compile and annotate the letters, correspondence, and documents of George Washington, John Adams, James Madison, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson. About $58 million has been spent in the past 30 years alone.
Yet, according to a study by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, the Washington papers will not be finished until 2023, with 54 volumes published and 35 more to go. The Adams papers, 29 volumes shy of the planned 59-volume set, will not be done until 2050.
Only the papers of Alexander Hamilton have been finished, largely because scholars did not have as many papers to comb through. Hamilton died at age 49 after a duel with Aaron Burr.
An assortment of highbrow lobbyists - led by the Pew Charitable Trusts, and including presidential historian David McCullough, the librarian of Congress, and the archivist of the United States - has been trying to persuade lawmakers to allocate more funds for the effort, known as the Founding Fathers Project. They also want Congress to demand that the papers, as well as the scholarship that accompanies them, be much more widely distributed, especially online.
McCullough, winner of two Pulitzer Prizes:
"I feel very strongly that this is as worthy as any publishing effort that I know of. It's just a shame that it is taking so long."
Dan Jordan, president of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, describes the delay in harsher terms:
"It's an embarrassment. I've also heard other words used, like 'criminal,' 'scandal.' "
Access to the documents, which include letters to and from the principals, diary and journal entries as well as official papers, has been strictly limited. Scholars, historians, and other interested parties have been able to glimpse the originals over the years, but these privileged few have had to travel to the six locations where the documents are kept, primarily at major universities.
McCullough, for example, said he had access to the Adams papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston when he was researching his biography of the second president. But he said the book, which won the Pulitzer Prize, would have been better if the annotated version of those papers had been completed.
Many of the founding fathers' letters have been transcribed and made available over the years, and the original documents can increasingly be found online. But it is the painstaking annotation of these thousands of documents - their detailed explanation - that takes so long.
Scholars check and double check each reference and then try to explain each one and put it in context. A page of the massive annotated tomes can contain a snippet of a document and then a long footnote of explanation.
Scholars in charge of the five remaining sets of papers strongly believe that those annotations cannot be rushed and are resisting the lobbyists' push. They say that top-flight scholarship requires them to deal accurately and completely with these precious documents and that such work takes time.
Stanley Katz, chairman of the Papers of the Founding Fathers:
"This is not an industrial process, this is a skilled process."
You've had OVER 200 YEARS, assholes!!!!!!!
Yup, the founding father's papers are an uncategorized mess, the holohoax files are a shithole of confusion, but we are just supposed to accept what the history books, MSM and government tell us what the past, present and future are, huh?
Well, FUCK THOSE GOD-DAMN OBFUSCATING, HIDING LIARS!!!!
