One
of the primary premises in George Orwell’s book, 1984, was that the government had to rewrite
history in order to promote their political agenda. We see more and more of this happening today. I think it has always happened, but it is
being exposed more today.
The
State Department intentionally deletes portions of press interview tapes in
order to cover up lies. When exposed,
they try to keep it hidden by saying it was a technical glitch. Even when they admit it was intentional, they
refuse to say who gave to order to alter the tape. Deleting tapes caused one President to leave
office, but this cover-up will probably just blow over.
Editing
tapes drastically changes history. Katie
Couric produced a so-called documentary on guns. This anti-gun film gave a totally misleading
conclusion of an interview by inserting a long pause where none existed. Ms Couric has apologized for the action. Is she sorry for her actions, or is she just sorry
she got caught? She may have been
caught, but the film is still unaltered and will become a fraudulent part of
history.
Many
so-called documentaries play loosely with the facts to reach conclusions
supporting a political agenda. Some
other “documentaries” that have employed such tricks are Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit
9/11 and Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth. These films are obviously scripted and
rehearsed to reach a foregone conclusion.
The only thing resembling a documentary is the poor quality
production.
Government
and politicians often lie and we are too ready to accept it. I am concerned that it is becoming more
frequent and flagrant. The media should
do a better job of exposing political lies, but they seem more interested in
promoting lies if the lies can create a headline. At the same time, the media does not do the
necessary work to expose actual crimes committed by politicians. This requires time and investigative
reporting.
The
holocaust was one of the darkest times in the history or the world. Nazi Germany killed six million Jews. General Eisenhower ordered extensive photos
and documentation because he knew someone would eventually try to rewrite this
page in history. We have already seen
Islamic leaders claim the holocaust never happened.
Many
people do try to rewrite history for political reasons. Some of these lies actually become part of
the curriculum in our education system.
Because the lies are taught in our schools, they are accepted as true.
Our
schools teach that white hunters almost exterminated the American Bison when
that is a statistical impossibility, but it fits the environmental agenda. We teach that President Jefferson had a child
with a black slave when that allegation has been totally disproven with DNA
testing. But, the lie fits a popular
agenda of criticizing our Founding Fathers, and that fits the agenda of discrediting
them in order to rewrite the constitution.
I
see the same thing in business. New
ideas try to change history. Technology
changes, but sound business principals do not change. Smart entrepreneurs do not try to reinvent
the wheel. All new and aspiring
entrepreneurs should take a quick review of the basics. That is one of the reasons I wrote Business
Fits.
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