In my opinion history is a lie that people agree with because they either do not know any better, or simply they refuse to believe what is true. My prediction is that because people are taught one thing by a teacher or someone older, they decide to agree and believe what ever that teacher or adult is saying. the people who are agreeing with them wouldn't know any better because they have no were else to turn. Even if they look in a history book or ask another professor ,who majors in history, they might have been taught these "lies" also. So because they , the teachers, agree with it its most likely that those who they are teaching well agree with it as-well. So as the student who are being taught these lies will grow and teach others. Therefore, it would become a chain of people agreeing with what they think is true. That is when the quote "History is the lie commonly agreed upon." said by Voltaire comes into play. Know I'm in this class were the teacher is telling us the "truth" about what really happened in history. But, I stop to think.. how do i even now if the "truth" that i am being taught isn't just more lies ? I guess will never really no what happened in our history unless we actually lived through it.
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