Maybeshewill
Our History Will Be What We Make of It
Our history will be what we make of itAnd if there are any historians about fifty or a hundred years from nowAnd there should be preserved the kinescopes for one week of all three networksThey will there find recorded in black and white and in colourEvidence of decadence, escapism, and insulation from the realities of the world in which we liveWe are currently wealthy, fat, comfortable and complacentWe have a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information, our mass media reflect thisBut unless we get up off our fat surplusesAnd recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse and insulate usAnd history will take its revenge and retribution will not limp in catching up with usIt may be that he human race is doomed never to learn from its mistakesWe are the only animal on this globe who periodically set out to slaughter each otherFor the best, the noblest, the most inescapable of reasonsWe know better but we do it again and again, in generation after generationIt may be that our empire too is doomed like all those that have gone before itTo continue to spill and waste its best blood on foreign soilNo matter what we say or do in its place, or think, or believe, or have learned from historyBut, thank God for us
From Letras Mania