Quote Originally Posted by Caprisun View Post
How did you know I go to school at Richwhiteman University? I thought everybody in a free society learned the same history, since there can only be one and there is usually a consensus on the truth. How did you avoid this ethnocentric education? If my history books are flawed, how did you get your information and why is it better than mine? Who are you to say war is unnatural? Humans have been taking part in premeditated violent acts since the beginning of time, one tribe against another. You aren't reading history with an open mind, you are squeezing it through a filter in your head. You are only hearing the things you want to hear.

i don't know where to start and where to begin. how about let's work backwards through this.

history isn't written with an open mind, it is filtered; what is taught in public school is what those who need it to be taught that way want to hear. though there have been violent acts throughout human history it is not indicative of all humans at all times in all cultures (nor inherent to human nature). by studying culturally relativistic anthropology either transmitted from an unbiased researcher or directly from a source (once again, the source whose voice was stifled for centuries) i have learned that excessive military spending, invading other countries, and other activities done at the expense of potentially improving the state of human life and freedom is not the only possible way of life. if we are all learning the same history, the same consensus on what is and what is not, then we are not living in a free society.