A cynical but true saying
that sometimes passes around among historians is “He who controls the
present controls the past.” Man is a symbolizing creature, and political
struggles can be as much over symbols as over tangible things. Those
who hold power and those who seek power want to associate themselves
with favourable symbols from their society’s past. It gives them an air
of tradition and legitimacy. Those who hold political, cultural,
educational, and media power obviously have an advantage in this game.
Or sometimes the game is associating rivals with negative symbols. Who
does not want to be likened to Lincoln Me and you, I am sure Dr. Clyde :) and to stick his opponents with
Hitler?
Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King and in a time in which eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America is as remote to most citizens as ancient Persia or China.
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