Hannah Arendt once said that life would be so beautiful, if it wasn’t for history. History has always been written in the blood of meek people by evil fucks. True history is the damnedest thing and real progress against its oppressive weight must be fought for every day by people claiming their right to common decency.

The consistent, exploitative cruelty of human history is the reason rich people don’t want their kids to hear the real history of what their ancestors did to other people. It’s why they invent myths to protect the beneficiaries of past brutality from the horrific reality their benefactors inflicted on others for their own profit. Here’s a powerful example of why actual history hurts so much.