1984 Pt. 2 Blog 3

Henry Kissinger wrote, "History is the memory of states." Is history changeable, existing independently of human memory or human records, or can history be rewritten using different records and points of view?

History can most certainly be rewritten. There are so many examples of this in history. Last week, my younger cousin had to dress up as one of his heroes and tell that hero's life story. My younger cousin happens to be Native American, and he very innocently picked Christopher Columbus as his hero. He was never taught that Christopher Columbus is directly responsible for the murder of thousands of Native Americans. All that was ever taught to my cousin is that Columbus "discovered" America, when he was not even the first European here, anyway. What I am getting at is whoever controls the present (the Europeans), controls the past. The Italians and Spanish did not want their cash cow to receive a bad name/reputation, so they just started lying and said that he was a hero. So yes, history is never set in stone and can always be changed by whoever has the power at the time.