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Ask a historian, "What was mankind's greatest invention?"
Fire? The wheel? The sword?
I would argue it's history itself. History isn't fact. It's narrative, one carefully curated and shaped. Under the pen strokes of the right scribe, a villain becomes a hero, a lie becomes the truth. What we choose to tell our children and what we censor. What we illuminate and what we gloss over. History as an act of addition and subtraction.
A wise man once said, "A people without history is like a tree without roots." What's missing from the wise man's history? When did story replace record?
When all the facts fall short of believability, fantasy feels reassuringly solid. And since this is my history, I get to decide which parts have been subtracted, which have been added.
History is the ultimate weapon, because it harnesses time itself. Used correctly, the past can alter the present.
What other invention can do that?
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