Fake History: Ten Great Lies and How They Shaped the World

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Many believe the Fourth of July is a day to celebrate the signing of the Declaration of Independence. They're wrong. Mainstream historians have categorized psychohistory as pseudohistory. [67] [68] Psychohistory is an amalgam of psychology, history, and related social sciences and the humanities. [69] Its stated goal is to examine the "why" of history, especially the difference between stated intention and actual behavior. It also states as its goal the combination of the insights of psychology, especially psychoanalysis, with the research methodology of the social sciences and humanities to understand the emotional origin of the behavior of individuals, groups and nations, past and present. Michael Grant (a classicist) states that "In recent years, 'no serious scholar has ventured to postulate the non historicity of Jesus' or at any rate very few, and they have not succeeded in disposing of the much stronger, indeed very abundant, evidence to the contrary." in Jesus: An Historian's Review of the Gospels by Michael Grant 2004 ISBN 1898799881 p. 200 I have to acquaint you, that the message which was supposed to have been sent this morning from Lord Hawkesbury to the Lord Mayor stating that the Negotiations with France had terminated amicably, was a fabrication, and totally destitute of truth. I am, Sir, your most obedient humble Servant, John Sargent. ~ 1 Bell’s Weekly Messenger – Sunday 08 May 1803

The only Prussian victory was in concert with Wellington at Waterloo. At Ligny on the 16th two of their three Corps were broken so badly they weren’t fit to fight at Waterloo. The third was subsequently broken at Wavre, the fourth made it to Waterloo where it struggled to defeat a third of its numbers, and a fifth Corps had mutinied before the campaign and had to be sent home. Barzun, Jacques (1989). Clio and the Doctors: Psycho-History, Quanto-History and History. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press. p.3. ISBN 9780226038513 . Retrieved 30 July 2017.On Thursday in the Afternoon, William Anderton , Printer , was brought to the Bar, and an Indictment of High-Treason was read against him; for that he did Compose, Print and publish Two Malicious, Scandalous and Traitorous Libels, The first Entitled, Remarks upon the present Confederacy, and late Revolution in England. The second Entitled, A French Conquest neither desirable, nor practicable. The Proceedings of the Old Bailey Barrett Brown (27 December 2010). "Neoconfederate civil war revisionism: Those who commemorate the South's fallen heroes are entitled to do so, but not to deny that slavery was the war's prime cause". TheGuardian.com . Retrieved 30 December 2013. a b c d e Williams, Stephen (1991). Fantastic Archaeology: The Wild Side of North American Prehistory. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press. Priest, Josiah (1835). American Antiquities and Discoveries in the West. Albany: Hoffman and White. I would say that we really need to look at the facts which remain from the Empire which Churchill stood for, not just the UK, and this idea about “by white men for white men” business. The second world economy is racist like no other, it is not white, it is very advanced and has slavery, it harvests people for organs etc. I will not go in to if the Marxists from the Marxist Empires subsidise the Traitor Manufacturing plants in our country of Oxford, Cambridge and other former universities. I think we need to just look at the facts. We need the big picture, to see the map where we are heading and where we are coming from.

Herf, Jeffrey (2006). The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda during the World War II and the Holocaust. Harvard University Press. p.127. ISBN 978-0-674038-59-2. Regal, Brian (2019). "Everything Means Something in Viking". Skeptical Inquirer. Vol.43, no.6. Center for Inquiry. pp.44–47. I guess the complexity comes from the fact that there is no bright-line between opinion and fact. To say that the middle ages were a benighted era of superstition has some basis in fact and is an opinion that can be held with the historical record. To say that medieval thinkers thought the world was flat can easily be disproven with a visit to Hereford cathedral to see the Mappa Mundi with one’s own eyes. Hope, Warren and Kim Holston. The Shakespeare Controversy (2009) 2nd ed., 3: "In short, this is a history written in opposition to the current prevailing view". The arbitrary linking of disparate events so as to form – in the theorist's opinion – a pattern. This is typically then developed into a conspiracy theory postulating a hidden agent responsible for creating and maintaining the pattern. For example, the pseudohistorical The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail links the Knights Templar, the medieval Grail Romances, the Merovingian Frankish dynasty and the artist Nicolas Poussin in an attempt to identify lineal descendants of Jesus.Of course, he’s not alone in twisting history to further his political goals. In Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Turkey, school books have been modified to de-emphasise Ataturk, the founder of the secular republic. It’s all part of an effort to reverse that legacy and glorify the Ottoman past, as Erdoğan carves out ever more powers for himself. There’s a wonderful book called Our Island Story that was written 100 years ago by Henrietta Marshall (so she passes Otto’s “no white men” test.) The book veers freely between legend and factual history, starting with Albion, through Arthur, Alfred, Canute, William the Conquerer, all the way to Queen Victoria. Marshall admits that many people would not see some of these as “history”, but she argues they are. Her point is that something doesn’t have to be completely true for it to contain Truth. Richard A. Burridge states: "There are those who argue that Jesus is a figment of the Church’s imagination, that there never was a Jesus at all. I have to say that I do not know any respectable critical scholar who says that anymore." in Jesus Now and Then by Richard A. Burridge and Graham Gould (Apr 1, 2004) ISBN 0802809774 p. 34

Robert Todd Carroll has developed a list of criteria to identify pseudo-historic works. He states that:Melton, J. Gordon (2005). Encyclopedia of Protestantism. New York: Facts on File, Inc. p. 107. ISBN 0-8160-5456-8. And while it’s tempting to think the rewriting of history is something found exclusively in illiberal or dictatorial systems, it has increasingly become a feature of democracies. Donald Trump’s speech in Warsaw last month strove to cast Poland’s historical struggle for freedom and independence as a “civilisational” battle for family values, “tradition” and “God”, rather than an aspiration to democracy. The narrative entirely left out of the rich and varied political tapestry that gave rise to the solidarity movement. In a strange twist, Trump also drew a parallel between the threat Islamist terrorism poses to “the west” and the “danger” of “bureaucracy and regulation”. His nativist vision of the west as an embattled fortress of Christian nations in cultural danger reflected not only a personal political credo, but a wider attempt to rewrite the history of liberal democracies and the principles they are meant to uphold. He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past George Orwell The consensus among academics is that no strictly matriarchal society is known to have existed. [61] [62] Anthropologist Donald Brown's list of human cultural universals ( viz., features shared by nearly all current human societies) includes men being the "dominant element" in public political affairs, [63] which is the contemporary opinion of mainstream anthropology. [64] Not at all. It’s a perfectly meaningful collective noun of its own, besides being a most acute epithet. For years it was relentlessly disseminated by the woke themselves; now they want to disown it. Not going to happen. We keep that word and all its derivations: wokery, wokerati, etc. etc. Thank you, wokes, for giving us such splendid neologism.