The world is defined by the description of the behavior of men over time, that is what others write about them and what they write about themselves. With the prominence of written history men write others out of history and themselves into history. Glorifying self at the expense of debasing others is the normal political protocol while the form called "not mentioning" is a weapon of choice. History repeats itself so if you don't mention it, it won't be repeated. Alas, it comes back in another form especially if it proved useful in the remembered pass. That is the crux of energy theory (another lesson). Thus, there is a link between selective written history and the human experience that gets embedded in our minds, ie the guilt trip, original sin, and apologetics. Can you handle the truth?
It is a hideous thing to live a lie and not know it, even worse if you know it and go along with it. The Wikipedia definition of "civilization" is telling. It says that institutions, languages, cultural practices and all the trappings are sort of at the hands of a subjugating influence. They ran out of words when it comes to the word "colonization" because they used them for the word "civilization." By condensing the span of time into a brief explainable moment and using the afore mentioned form called "not mentioning" you could put yourself into the written historical record smelling like roses instead of the dung.
The discrepancy between civilization and colonization became apparent in the description of the actions taken by people of the Nile Valley and that of the invading Greeks and Romans. When you dive down into the words and actions you find the motives still in play. The dominant say they all are about civilization but really the force of the motive is colonization. The local leaders ever reaching for favors of higher levels, world leaders, popes, God (as defined by them). We faught for civil rights because that appealed to us, the right to be civil and be treated civil, the same as other citizens. But they had defined us as beast of their burdens and not citizens, by definition, the legal terms.
We have holy books we revere because supposedly they don't change, the real power is from the dictionary that changes every day. Every day! To hide or glorify or debase by definition. The most powerful book in the world is the one of legal terms and definitions (like Blacks Law Dictionary). Ooh I'm not effected by words like that! When we changed the "N" word to also mean "nappy" we couldn't wait to get "good" hair. Got'cha!!
