We have our own memory from our own lives, we hear stories of previous or present family tales maybe through documents, traditions or word of mouth. This simple fact can be taken outwards to groups of people, their history etc, then villages, towns and cities.
History is a timeline, most memorable acts of history have been linked to the state;
WW1, WW2, Cold War, the independence of the British Empire, Rosa Parks, Apollo, Martin Luther King and Gandhi, 9/11. They all in some way are linked to the Government, when most people think history they think of these events straight away. In America and Britain anyway. The media is their word of mouth, and documents. The history of events, quite general I know other factors are involved such as colonialism and economic determinism but they are directly linked to the state which is the history I am focussing on.
History is societies way of saying 'yeah I remember [learning about it]' to a stranger and also bonds it together.
The Internet comes along, research paid for by the American people believing they were investing against Communism during the Cold War period. Individual opinions, books and thoughts published universally and freely across the internet.
Don't run before you can walk, I'm not saying people didn't have individual minds, books and other publications before the internet I'm saying it contributed to about 99% of it's expansion of readers/listeners. And theoretically the Government itself is an individual entity publishing it's thoughts and opinions they may have secrets but we aren't ruled by anonymous.
So Internet has brought us to question history, where we are now, our individual beliefs and thoughts. It has also brought people and knowledge together we wouldn't have since known. The act of the Internet is physically time consuming and individualized to one person per Internet access mostly.
More theories and motives become in the public domain dividing people from collective opinions, showing people different sides of augments etc you get the drift. The freedom of information has caused the individual to become more flexible in thoughts and ideas - that is the Internet's legacy. But why would those in power want a society with loads of different ideas and stuff?
I don't know. We look at all these conspiracy theories and we are given facts and interviews but the human mind will believe what it wants to believe and unless you literally haven't found that fact out yourself it could just be made up and put into the public domain as an act against the Government.
To evade another fascist/communist society? If society is diffused it is less likely to unite for a higher motive. But in turn more likely to remain where it is, and we all have different views of the State we live in, kidna proving my point, though I know different strands of society unite against certain things, and that has always happened. So maybe the Internet has been used to distract us from bigger issues which have never been heard or told outside the class struggle etc. Another tool to suppress? Maybe wars, the Government, religion, monarchy, anything in power and in relative history are tools to evade us from real truths, test subjects almost, and history is a tool used to defend our existence as it is, by looking at the past and distracting us from outside it into maybe a world we don't know about. NWO and the Illuminati used to give us the perception of an alternative within their wishes and yet not a real view of what's going on. Aliens? NWO? 13 family dynasty? Maybe I myself have just been brought up in a way to support the capatalist system to say such crazy things and confuse you from the class struggle?
Who knows I cba to think about it for too long, maybe I've had too much fluoride I don't care.
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