With all the
division in this country, I wonder how the history of the Trump presidency will
be recorded? It all depends on a
possible second term.
History, at
best, is a fictional story of an incident in time, recorded through the bias of
the writer. Often the writer is chronicling
an event that he did not actually experience.
For the most
part, history is written by the winners of wars; by the ruling political party;
by the rich and powerful that control the media and can influence the minds of
the people.
Recorded history has been filtered
through the writer’s biases; his or her gender, race, religion, politics,
education, intelligence and cultural mores.
Nine-eleven
was a viscous attack on a civilian population by religious fanatics, that took
three thousand innocent lives. That
is how the destruction of the twin towers will be chronicled in our history.
America’s
nuclear attacks on the Island of Japan took three-quarters of a million civilian
lives: women, children, old people; and leveled entire cities. We won, so we chronicle that as ending a tyrannical
war.
It wasn’t
until lately that I considered the word: history: His story.
A glaring bias
in the recording of history is that for thousands of years the chroniclers have
been men.
I wonder how
events would have been recorded if it were herstory: Her story?
the Ol'Buzzard
