Preventing the Revision of History

It’s not an issue that consumes my thoughts for hours at a time, but I often wonder how the real story of this period in our history will be recorded. I have a deep and abiding distrust and disdain for the majority of academic institutions in this country. They are failing to teach the real history of the United States and instead replacing it with multiculti pap. Whereas the founding fathers kept important historical records of the times to pass on to us, these accounts have been taken out of context or even ignored to the extent that their contents were in conflict with the “agreed upon” narrative of today’s liberal academic establishment. One would think that since they already spin the current conflict and its outcomes on a daily basis that the accuracy of the record is in jeopardy even at the time of its recording. Maybe not.

What do you mean Froggy? What can be done? We are doing it now. We few, we band of bloggers are ensuring that the spin and agenda driven liberals in this country cannot monopolize the recordation of our times. Never again. I received an encouraging email from a Canadian historian who is doing just that. Amongst other sources, he is using the blogosphere as a contemporaneous mechanism of historical documentation. No longer do the cultural elites have carte blanche to write their version of reality into our historical record. Power to the people!

The obvious danger is that just as the academics cherry pick the text of our early history, they can exclude inconvenient facts that don’t fit their narratives. While this is true, those who wish to attempt this sort of fraud will be easily and forcefully exposed for having done so. The dynamic self correcting nature of the blogosphere allows for an instant reaction and analysis loop to develop around an issue. The linking of substantiating or refuting material to a blog post ensures that falsity will be quickly and brutally exposed. Wise historians can use the breadth of opinion in the blogosphere to create historical works that truly reconstruct all sides of a particular event and therefore allow the consumer to make a judgment as to its meaning and significance.
Milblogs written by deployed troops will be especially important in this respect, and even if the MSM doesn’t want to report what they are telling us, the historical record is likely to accept it. Just one more reason to thank God for the blogosphere, and to keep on bloggin’!