History

I was reading Orwell's 1984. It was published in 1949 and was set 36 years into the future. I was reading the ebook version of it. But up til now, I have not gone past a quarter into the book.

Book Cover

It was about his futuristic take on the world. A dystopian novel set in Oceania. A Big Brother was supposed to be omniscient then. Every thought provokes a certain eye twitch, or measly movement, that can easily be identified by the Thought Police. And even children frightened their parents because they could turn against them.

What caught my attention was the idea that their past was highly edited, people vanished if they committed thought crimes. Their history completely wiped out of records. Numbers, statistics, and records were pulled out, revised, and returned to circulation.

This bugs me ever since I heard students in Spain were taught that Magellan died because their boat sank. And not because he was killed by Lapu-Lapu, as what is taught here [the Philippines].

Another thing of note was the history re Man on the Moon. I am, to say the least, a skeptic. Ever since I've watched a segment of it in Studio 23, a local television channel, I was highly doubtful the event really took place. [This was rehashed because of the death of Neil Armstrong, the "First Man on the Moon."] A hoax, they say.

Conspiracy theorists based their conclusions on several factors. One noteworthy is how the American flag fluttered without atmosphere. I read all other else in wikipedia.

These were supposedly debunked in one episode of Myth Busters.

But having been a skeptic for quite a while now, and with the onset of how flimsy history accounts can be, I still wonder if Moon landing indeed happened.

By now, I may also change a history. Wipe off people from my Autobiography. And think I lived in this Utopian world. Haha! I wish!