Politics and mainstream history « ELLIOT LAKE News & Views
Quoted from German Truth Be Told « ELLIOT LAKE News & Views.
In politics and history – two disciplines linked closely by cause-and-effect relationships – there is a mainstream school of thought which is shaped and guided by vested interests such as, for example, lobby groups and the behind-the-scenes forces whose purpose they serve. In either discipline – or in any other subject, for that matter – an incomplete understanding of more than just the officially sanctioned side prevents one from making the correct decisions and drawing informed conclusions.Obviously, where a mainstream school of thought is useful to [the] Establishment, any non-mainstream views are detrimental to those who benefit from the status quo. From this perspective, people who would rather think for themselves, and/or who have something to say that does not support these mainstream views, are undesirable – and all too often are silenced.We, at The Scriptorium believe that this is classically evident in publishing, education and any other endeavor related to the presentation of history to the “consumer public”, and that a distinct pattern of stressing one side while distorting and hushing-up the other has become standard practice with regard to the fairly recent history of Germany and of the Second World War in particular.
