Dear Friends,
It seems to me, the term, “the victors write the history,” is as pernicious as it is nihilistic. The adage doesn’t inform, it gives permission. Because lets face it, what is your stake in the troubles between Marius and Sulla? Our view of Roman history is from such a vantage point in time, that we can dispassionately examine their history, regardless of the winner of any engagement or war. Tamerlane conquered India and will always and forever be a villain. His historians must have sucked. Sparta won every war it was in. Today, anyone who has read Plutarch and Herodotus, consider them the most barbarous state that ever existed. That is why that model failed. The truth is, the victors only write their own version of history, which they can enforce, for awhile… but force is temporal, history is not.
The term makes sense… until you think about it deeply enough. Moreover, in the short term, it is true enough. Those with political power wield violence as a consequence, so their opinion is unquestionable (as long as their oppression is backed by a corrupt court system). As Donald Trump just found out. Today, the state controlled mockingbird media outlets will be parroting some lie, to manipulate those willing to be manipulated into thinking it’s okay to use law as a weapon, against people who are as bad as Donald Trump. In the long term however, will people think the elite breaking every law, past practice and Constitutional norm, are heroes or villains? In a century do you think people will still hate Trump supporters? History will show the elite to be who they are, whether they know it or not.
It is widely believed by the elite today that the winners do indeed write the history. Which gives them permission to do anything they need to do… to get unlimited power. Then they can write the history showing them to be heroes instead of the villains they are. In the short term, if they indeed win and bring on the End Times, they can claim to be the good guys. With their monopoly on the media, education, corporations and expert class, they can maintain the charade until it all comes crashing down. Even if they could usher in a utopia, with half wits in charge, it wouldn’t last an hour. Then, in a century, they will be called every vile name imaginable, and some we haven’t yet. Believing that the winner writes the history, for more than a decade or two, gives the foolish permission to be villains.
President Trump ignorantly thought the struggle was between factions, but is only now perhaps beginning to realize it is between the elite and the people, the new class and the unpapered, the experts and the doers. Two notions glue the new class to Environmental, Social and Governance, (ESG) theory. Those are the belief in the lie that the victors write the history, in anything but the shortest of terms (giving them permission to do anything), and the elite are so much more virtuous, wise and compassionate than everyone else (making their usurpations an obligation). They are convinced we are a cancer on the planet. If a few billion of us die, in famines, the planet will not only thank them, but history will laud them the saviors of the Earth. That’s what they plan to write anyway.
Give a zealot permission to do their mission, especially by telling them history will hide their sedition… and there is no crime they will not commission. We see the truth of that all around us today. The experts believe their lies are virtuous while our truths are villainous. Shutting down fertilizer production and use can only lead to famine where thousands maybe millions die, shutting down energy production and shipping will result in economic disruption, and using law as a political weapon must destroy the people’s respect for it. These things are obvious and yet are being done with ever more frequency. Why? Because the elite have been given permission, by thinking the winner writes the history, whether true or not, it is abetting the magnificent crime we, the human race, are the victims of.
Sincerely,
John Pepin
