I write down history from what I remember reading over the years. I suppose I should do some bona fide research to back me up, but what’s the point? History is written by people who piece together bits from here and there, accounts of people writing hearsay of events. Even eyewitness accounts vary, depending on where the observer was standing. We all remember (don’t we?) the famous story of the blind men describing an elephant. One grasps the leg and says, “It’s a tree!” Another grabs the tail and says, “It’s a snake!”

I was looking on the internet to refresh my memory of ancient history. I wanted to draw parallels with the burning and destruction of the Library of Alexandria, where up to 700,000 scrolls were lost, some the only copy. All the knowledge of the world at that time collected in one place.

We’ll never know what we lost. The thoughts and hopes, the scientific discoveries, the stories of a people, the birth and death of gods, the ebb and flow in the tide of events, all gone past recovery. Primary source material now replaced by guesswork.

Fast forward to now. We have a similar haven for history, the National Archives, the Library of Congress.

A copy of everything is held in perpetuity so we can go back to check and verify.

But now, with the American government out of control, the archives are being edited, altered, replaced.

I saw it happening years ago when I was teaching in the classroom. The textbooks for the whole country, don’t ask me why, were written, edited, published, printed in and disseminated from Texas. American history no longer used the word “slavery.” Early mid-last-century entrepreneurs initiated a job opportunity program, sailed to Africa to recruit labor, brought them back and provided housing while they picked the cash crop cotton barefoot in the fields.

Uh…not exactly.

And what’s with this Prez who won wars that never started, but it’s written down for the archives? He’s who nobody has ever. So re-write the books. Make it required reading in the classroom. Truth doesn’t matter. Down is up. Law is selectively gone with the wind.

If original documentation is destroyed, history is “what I say it is.”

Are we expected to provide group therapy for the hollow man? To award trophies for the worst of the worst?

The tears I cry in public are not tears of joy.

The history of tomorrow builds upon the history of the past. When the past is gone, so is the future.

Dickens understood Scrooge. The unwashed poor should die and decrease the excess population.

Redact the past, and it’s smooth sailing ahead. Who is this Epstein guy? Never heard of him.