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RE: "Let them eat cake" - the 10,000 years of literati tyranny
I love this post! I'm glad you commented on my post and if would discover your blog. You writing style is very smooth and enjoyable to read. Plus your choice in topics are also thought provoking, I have been told many times that it's the winners who wrote history. But until now I have never realised the irony in the that statement “wrote” history. Your absolutely right, which would make since why anytime people tried to force a quick culture change they targeted the written material and flow of information. I will always question anyone who tells me not to read something. It's the free flow of information that alows us to constantly grow.
Thank you for your comment. With the wealth of recording methods available to man, it is interesting that we choose the written method for official, legitimate documents. By limiting legitimacy to one form of record keeping, the ultimate censorship belongs to the literati class. The accounts of North European "pagan" mythologies that we read were written by the Christian bureaucrats/monks because the Northern Europeans used bardic songs to record their history and theology. By determining which stories are written, the literati decides which of man's stories are transmitted.
I recall a recent discovery of an ice-age era settlement in Canada, which caused the scientists to re-evaluate the migration history to the Americas. The regional native people had an oral tradition that dated their settlements to this ice-age settlement, but for decades, the authorities dismissed their stories because it was not recorded in written form. I think the next generation of men needs to be taught to appreciate all forms of historical records, not just the written form.