10 Biggest LIES Told in History - A list we all should debate, define, deliberate, and disseminate
The Europeans NEEDED slaves in the New World, ..to be brought to the New World …to operate the New World. One of the first lessons in economics is ‘needs versus wants.’
‘Egypt’ “was their name, oh” — they were Kemet (km.t) which means ‘black land.’ How many places are multi-named, misnamed, just plain silly… Many place’s identities could be cleaned up if they received their actual own best, historic, local original name. Canada is an accidental naming that means ‘village.’ Should India be Bharat as their consitiution implies? “India, that is Bharat, shall be a Union of States.”
Hinduism is the religion of India or Sindhu or sapta sindhava (land of seven rivers) or hapta hindu — today’s Pakistan/India. This land of seven rivers, today the Indus River system, had many, many, many, many tribes, cultures, languages, traditions, temples, sacred texts; so the Persian word Sindhu swapped the ‘s’ and ‘h’ evolved into the land and the people’s given name (Hindus) and eventually became the collective of all of their cultures/traditions as one religion known today as ‘Hinduism,’ a label the British slapped on them/it.
People stayed where they were in history. Yes, some people of many groups lingered in ‘areas’ around the world, but millions of Homo habilis, Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis, early Homo sapiens, and every group after that moved, wandered, ‘viked,’ conquered, traveled, traded, and wandered some more…
Africa, Europe, and Asia are separate continents. Afro-Eurasia is one connected, connected, connected link in all of history.
Mythology is false and history is facts. Mythologies are provocative stories about origin tales; yet facts (of great consequence) are still often very debated/debatable. Facts of/with great certainty have little interpretative use by themselves. Hard cold facts need soft warm facts to make a story that can be told, known, used, and loved. Facts may be the bricks, but ‘mythologies’ (myth making) are the mortar. Facts are food, yet stories are savory.
Conquest is greater than commerce. History seems like a story of serial warfare. Conquerors always sought to establish commerce. Must conquest always be first? Did commerce only follow conquest? Whether conquest of ‘1 over 2’ or ‘2 over 1’ …or no conquest at all, commerce almost always continues. It can rise and fall, but it almost never fails to connect and lead areas of the world in change.
Unity is greater than pluralism. As much as nation-states and religions try to tie their ‘occupants’ in ‘unity,’ change, variety, fracturing, fragmentation, outliers, anarchy, rebellion, evolution, and emergence wrestle that binding control out of their grasps. The greatest unity is that pluralism reigns. The Earth is round and it fractures all things that try to unite on it.
Humans can be ‘aliens’ — ‘alius’ or ‘other.’ Humans have some variations in appearance and very mild fluctuations in general physicality, but language, culture, and ethnicity really do not constitute much of a ‘cause for labeling’ fellow humans as outsiders. We are all on the ‘outside’ of the Earth, and inside of its orbit.
That history can be known. ‘Logos’ (the Greek word for ‘word’) says you can name a rock or a ‘chair,’ but it doesn’t make it so. ‘Saying it’ doesn’t change its substance or state of being. 99.999999% of the past is not recorded and 0.0000001% of what is recorded is selected to be ‘told’ as history or part of history. We may pull at the thickest or the brightest threads in the tapestry of time, but can we really reweave the past into its temporal form? The mirror reflects our face, the water refracts the sunlight, and history represents the tale we mythologize in our minds… yes, an image will appear, but is it of the past, the present, or an anticipated future? ‘Words’ know, ‘they’ do not exist.