Projection

History has a way of projecting it's own viewpoint over everything it records. Whatever the current beliefs are show up as truths. These truths are well documented and easy to believe because most of us are geared to think the way we think.

When they first found King Tut's tomb, he was seen as a boy. Probably weak, maybe sickly, not particularly powerful, more of a puppet king. It seemed reasonable to folks at that time. After all, he was from the past, from an African culture, of a different color skin, you know those people who aren't quite as smart, savvy, or strong as people like us.

Now they are unpacking the rest of the objects from his tomb it appears he was probably a very powerful warrior king. A boy was a man at 14 in Egypt and he lived to be 19 and now they think it is possible he died in battle. Of course this is from our point of view in a very warlike world now. Who knows the truth?

Same thing for the Mayas. We once ascribed very ritualistic, simplistic mediation to their ways of dealing with conflict. Now, thanks to a new way of photographing land, called lidor, we have found what we believe are Mayan fortresses and other things that point to them also being very powerful warring people. But again, this is being evaluated from our present war mongering culture.

I wonder what history will make of our time? Our strutting, posturing, pouting, head of state, who cannot really read, does not appear to think logically and is a compulsive liar always looking for ways to self-aggrandize or blame a scapegoat?