Our History Will Be What We Make of It

Our history will be what we make it.

And if there are any historians about 50 or 100 years

from now and there should be preserved the kinescopes

of one week of all three networks

they will there find, recorded in black and white and

in color,

evidence of decadence, escapism, and insulation from

the realities of the world in which we live.

We are currently wealthy, fat, comfortable, and

complacent.

We have a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing

information.

Our mass media reflect this.

But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and

recognize that television in the main is being used to

distract, delude, amuse, and insulate us,then history

will take its revenge and retribution will not limp in

catching up with us.

It may be that the human race is doomed, never to learn

from its mistakes.

We are the only animals on this globe who periodically

set out to slaughter each other for the best, the

noblest, the most inescapable of reasons. We know

better. But we do it again and again in generation

after generation.

It may be that our empire, too, is doomed like all

those that have gone before it to continue to spew and

waste its best blood on foreign soil, no matter what we

say or do in this place, or think, or believe, or have

learned from history.

But, thank God for us...