The history we’re really interested in is of course not “taught” or “taught falsely”, and therefore only appears marginally.
It is, so to speak, a question of point of view; this point of view is generally that of domination, unfolding its own narrative and obscuring all that is contrary to it by locking it up in the anecdotal.
Those who are primarily concerned by history, the people, are strangely absent. Except when they decide to make history, when they believe it’s possible; when each and every one of us decides to be part of it, and to take our destiny into our own hands.
So it’s this “making history” that we’re going to give priority to; in all those missed forks in the road that opened the door to another, more humane and supportive society, where each and every one of us could give meaning to our lives, to this history that we absolutely must take up again.
From the point of view of domination, however, the historical narrative is necessarily seen in a different light: as the adventure of the confiscation of power, political or economic, by some oligarchic form, a history it would like to see frozen.
Unsurprisingly, we find this organized falsification in the affirmation of a “National Narrative”, that old reactionary soup we’re still being fed. But just as much in the discourse of market liberalism and its ideology, for which there is no alternative.
Gentlemen, life is short… If we live, we live to tread on kings’ heads. – Shakespeare
Let it come, let it come, the time to fall in love with. – Rimbaud
Translated by TerKo with the help of a free translation tool.
Rebounds:
- Quotes notebook: History/Historiosophy No. 22
- Quotes notebook: History/Historiosophy No. 23
- Quotes notebook: History/Historiosophy No. 24
- HISTORY on L’Encyclopédie anarchiste