It’s all out there. The truth of our history is
waiting to be learned.
The ways of the world are discoverable, but the problem is that
each of us is born ignorant. We can only fight against the
oppression we know, the oppression we can recognize. I keep
aging, just as everyone does, and I keep learning additional
snippets that give me a greater understanding of the invisible
cage I live in. The more I learn, the more powerful I become and
the closer I get to being able to break out. Unfortunately, as I
age and become more knowledgeable, I age and get closer to death.
A dead slave cannot fight to correct the system.
We age. We learn. We become disgusted by the truth. We
start to figure out how to fight back, but we die before we can
do much of anything. The young behind us must go through the same
learning period before they have a chance of fighting it. The
power structure stays in place because it hides. It relies on the
limited lifetimes of individual humans as a primary defense. It
also continuously acts to restrict or remove information from the
common culture that would reveal itself.
How do we, the common people, fight such a system? We can fight
it in two ways. First, we must ensure that the information about
the true history of the oppression of the majority by the
minority be freely available to all. Second, we must ensure that
such information becomes and remains a primary part of the
education of all new people. Then, even though we die, we can
ensure the protection and freedom of the people who live after
us.