22) Another view of history! Written by Rainer: rainer.lehrer@yahoo.com Learn languages (via Skype): Rainer: + 36 20 549 52 97 or + 36 20 334 79 74

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Another view of history! History books and historians mostly deal with things that are documented or substantiated, for example by excavations. We get more detailed knowledge from chronicles or inscriptions carved in stone. These generally deal with events about kings or other great people. But what should it be about when we small people look into a history book? Don't we want to learn something practical about our own lives from these books? That it appears dry is mostly due to the fact that it is not about ourselves, the simple inhabitants of this earth. Great battles are fought, principalities and empires arise and perish, pyramids and other wonders of the world are built, and for the most part they are destroyed either by wars, the use of their building materials for other purposes, or simply by weather. “The pyramids are great buildings; We still don't know how it was achieved; The first large living machine where the workforce of thousands was organized and united.” These were the words of my history teacher, as they still ring in my ears, as if it had only been yesterday. I only heard in an abashed voice that many of the poor ant workers were overworked and died. Great empires and wars have certainly influenced history significantly, or rather, that is what we know, mostly the only thing we can prove more or less certainly. Where can one read anything about the small ones who had to endure all this? How was it really for us? For us, the small people? Basically, it can be said that the splendour or sumptuousness of a ruler rarely reflected the well-being of his people. This lavish lifestyle of the prince had to be financed by us, of course. We went to war for him and were killed. The general's life was only endangered when his army was defeated and fled. But before the foot soldiers could save their own skin, their leader was mostly over all mountains. And if he didn't succeed, like at the famous Battle of Waterloo, he would surround himself with his elite or bodyguard, which consisted of proven and reliable veterans and would prevent him from being mistreated. I'm not a fan of Hitler and Nero at all, but at least they had the courage to commit suicide. Most of them were cowards. In ancient times, the leaders were worshiped like gods and we had to kiss their feet. It is almost incomprehensible how submissively we sacrificed ourselves for them. We dug their graves and were buried alive with them if we were not ‘mercifully’ killed without mercy. At that time, we thought that our lives are only worth anything if they lived. With their end, our lives also ceased. The dark middle ages were not much better. We were kept stupid and asked to participate in Passion Plays, in which someone who played Jesus usually died that way. No wonder that the Jews living in Buda during the Turkish period preferred to support the children of Islam when the castle was recaptured by the German armies because the Muslims in the Middle Ages behaved much more human and tolerant than the barbaric Christians. The first awakening of consciousness after a relative democracy in Athens began in England and France. The people had dared to depose the king and possibly even execute him. The French revolutionary Saint-Just rightly asked where the scruples came from to behead a simple mortal king who had so much blood on his hands that it would not have been enough to end his life ten thousand times, to name just the smallest culprit. And that way, we slowly come to today. In kindergarten and school we are taught what we may know so as not to become dangerous to the state; what we need to know to promote its wealth; then comes the military, where we are taught to blindly execute orders, and if we behave well, we have the right to work and pay taxes. Of course, double and triple, of which we have little advantage. And for everything to work smoothly, we are checked and monitored, renegades are excluded, so that nobody comes up with the idea of ​​wanting to live otherwise. And stupid fellow sufferers join in happily and play police, soldiers and spies for a few pennies. After years of work, the venerable servant is sent to a retirement home with an award made of plastic. But how is all of this still possible today? In history lessons in particular, one learns already in childhood that a large, strong state brings advantages to the individual and that the rights of this individual can best be protected, and that the police and control should preserve property. Only absolutely loyal servants are hired for schools and universities who, thanks to their good pay (at least in developed countries), convey this dream image. You will get the feeling that 'integration' is the only way to succeed in society. "Ex re publica non est vita, si est vita, non est ita." The only question is whether this is really the case. Dear reader, do you know anyone who has tried another way? It took millennia to become self-confident, to get an awareness of the right to dignity. It will probably take a few millennia more to completely take away the fear of a wonderful, independent life. Back to list!

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