Our History Will Be What We Make of It - Maybeshewill

Our history will be what we make of it

And if there are any historians about fifty or a hundred years from now

And there should be preserved the kinescopes for one week of all three networks

They will there find recorded in black and white and in colour

Evidence of decadence, escapism, and insulation from the realities of the world

in which we live

We are currently wealthy, fat, comfortable and complacent

We have a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information,

our mass media reflect this

But unless we get up off our fat surpluses

And recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude,

amuse and insulate us

And history will take its revenge and retribution will not limp in catching up

with us

It may be that he human race is doomed never to learn from its mistakes

We are the only animal on this globe who periodically set out to slaughter each

other

For the best, the noblest, the most inescapable of reasons

We know better but we do it again and again, in generation after generation

It may be that our empire too is doomed like all those that have gone before it

To continue to spill and waste its best blood on foreign soil

No matter what we say or do in its place, or think, or believe, or have learned

from history

But, thank God for us