Part 3 - of "A World Gone Mad"

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Published on Feb 27, 2023
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Greetings from Tomorrow’s World. When I was young, my father liked to listen to a radio personality named Paul Harvey. He had a radio segment called “The Rest of the Story.” Every episode he would bring out some little-known fact about well-known people. It was entertaining, and always interesting, because you learned something new every time.

I guess I liked Paul Harvey because I love history. And what is exciting about history is there’s always more to learn. It’s like having a giant jigsaw puzzle. And each fact we learn is like a puzzle piece that adds new clarity, dimension and color. And slowly, as we fill in the pieces, a panorama of history starts to emerge.

But there is a disturbing trend happening today. It’s called historical revisionism. What do we mean by revision? Well it comes from the word “revise,” which means “to alter something already written or printed, in order to make corrections, improve, or update.”

Now there’s nothing wrong with revising a document based on new information, better sources, and more accurate data. But historical revision is different. It’s a re-interpretation of the facts, often from a contrary point of view.

One of the signers of the Declaration of Independence and members of the Continental Congress was John Witherspoon. The Witherspoon Institute, named after this American patriot, is an organization dedicated to teaching the public about the foundations of our free and democratic societies. Their website explains what historical revisionism is, also referring to it as “fake history.”

“…For decades professors have… taught a good deal of ‘fake history.’ Fake history promotes false narratives, twists the facts, or omits certain key facts altogether…. There are three respects in which the spread of fake history has been particularly dangerous…. First, some historians and political thinkers present extreme leftists as heroes worthy of emulation. Second, these same people too often twist history in order to present victims as oppressors and oppressors as victims. Third, these individuals often conveniently omit key statements by the nation’s founders and other historical figures” (William Jeynes, “‘Fake History’ is More Dangerous Than ‘Fake News’,” ThePublicDiscourse.com, May 15, 2017).

It’s taking the same events but seeing them through a different lens. We can see the effects of fake history when we look at what is happening on college campuses in the western world today.

For example, did you know that in a 2014 survey of more than a million classes in American universities, the third most assigned text was Karl Marx’s “The Communist Manifesto.”

By the way, the only two texts that outranked Karl Marx’s work was a rather bland guide to writing, and Plato’s Republic. With so many young people poring over Karl Marx’s most beloved text, is it any wonder why so many are fascinated with socialism?

In 2016, there was a report published by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. In the report they revealed one third of millennials surveyed believed that former President George W. Bush was responsible for more killings than former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.

Stop and let that fact settle in. If you have read your history, you know that Joseph Stalin was responsible for killing upward of 20 million of his own people. What could possibly beguile young people into believing George W. Bush was more dangerous than Stalin? Clearly, they are lacking any understanding of early 20th century history.

Adolf Hitler was responsible for systematically putting to death 6 million Jews. In 2014 the Anti-Defamation League surveyed 53,000 people around the world to get their views on the Holocaust. Shockingly, only 54% had even heard of the Holocaust. Even more astounding, 32% of those who had heard of it believed it to have been greatly exaggerated, or a myth.

50% of all people have never heard of the Holocaust; 1/3 who have believe it’s exaggerated or a myth (Danielle Wiener-Bronner, “Half of People Surveyed by the ADL Don’t Know What the Holocaust Is,” The Atlantic, TheAtlantic.com, May 13, 2014).

What a failure of modern education. In spite of eye-witness accounts, diaries, preserved records, photographs, testimonies; in spite of survivors who told their harrowing story.

And, of course, more recently, we see rioters tearing down statues of past public figures in the U.S. and other places around the world. Dr. Ben Carson, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, commented on this recently. In an NBC website article he condemned the bewildering actions of rioters. He said:

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