Did you enjoy your history classes in school?

I believe there is hardly anybody who will answer ‘yes’ to this question, and I believe this to be by design. People at the helm, the so-called ‘leaders’, are usually not the smart and productive ones. Otherwise, they would not have to resort to plunder. So we can not expect them to be very creative in inventing new ways of cheating the productive part of the people out of the fruit of their labor.

They have to look at successful actions in the past. But as these actions are always doomed and not very long-lasting, it would be very bad for business if others were to recognize their actions and see where they lead.

Thus, history lessons have to be made so boring that nobody wants to even look at them. Trying to actively hide them would not work because a good mystery will always cause interest, and that is definitely something that must be avoided.

Making it boring was therefore a very good move. If a noticeable number of people would be interested in history – even the rather recent one like that of the Hitler empire – they would see the plain parallels in today’s events.

Hitler, for example, used the word Vaterland (fatherland) and other emotionally charged words to rally the people behind his agenda. ‘Homeland’ feels pretty close to that. Both don’t have any real meaning; even though a farm in Maryland is part of my Homeland, it is not my home, as little as a farm in China would be. The current owners of both would kick me out if I were to go and live there now. If something is not mine, it is not mine – independent of where it is.

But instead of teaching the real history, the one that tries to explain reasons behind events and not only a date, a mock history is sold and promoted by Hollywood. This fake history causes people to believe that they understand what went on, and thus, there really is no reason anymore to do some actual research into cause and effect.

All these ideas are not new and all over the past the few who could look and see realized this reality. One such evidence is the essay “The Fall of Rome and Modern Parallels” by Lawrence W. Reed, the director of The Foundation for Economic Education. This was a talk given in 1979 and is read by Stefan Molyneux of Freedomain Radio.

There is only this second-hand version of the talk because during the darkest hours of the internet censorship (early 2020s) Mr. Molyneux was canceled and banned from Youtube.

He found a new home on Rumble, and there I found the following presentation from him, going much deeper into the subject.