I would say they have no monopoly on this. Much of what I was taught as a child regarding history were lies, and they are changing what they said back then now. I have read many posts here on ancient people and how evidence strongly suggests high levels of technology. Read about giant men walking the earth that schools don't really talk about. I could ramble on, but the last point I would make is the way a certain religious institution rolled through the world using the countries military to crush native populations found, stealing their knowledge as it used drastic coercion to eradicate those ways from them. I wish I could see what they have in their archives. I am sure it has helped separate them from the herd in most ways.
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I grew up in the US, and I have spent the last 5 years living in China. Without intending to step on toes, let me shoot this straight.
If you think that Western propaganda (where the truth is spun, bent, and occasionally swept under the rug) and Chinese propaganda (where they don't even have a concept of the fact that "truth" and "the word of whoever is in charge" are not, in fact, synonymous... where complete and utter fabrications from beginning to end are the norm... where anyone who dares to even ask "what if" vanishes) are the same thing, then you're seriously not paying attention.
That's like saying "my papercut is no different from your bayonet-wound to the chest. I deserve a purple-heart."
I can't state anything for certain, but not sure how much worse things can get when your country is saying a group called Isis is a terrorist organization we need to fear and not question liberties taken with our freedom due to them, then send these same people money and weapons and call them rebels in their partnership to overthrow Assad in Syria. I could mention the many examples of government collusion with sex trafficking, the war on drugs that should begin at the CIA and not the common person on the street, etc etc.
This is just some of many examples I see, but if things are worse there then my heart goes out for them.
Then come over here to China and see, because after five years living in Beijing I CAN say quite a lot for certain.
US government lies compared to Chinese government lies are like a summer squall compared to a typhoon. First and most glaring example, the US is not rounding up dissidents en masse, shooting most of them, throwing the few they don't shoot into Orwellian indoctrination centers and consigning them to a level of poverty that would make the poorest American blush, then forcing their children to attend schools that are deliberately designed to make them incapable of anything other than such brutally menial labor that they will be lucky to see their 40th birthday, then digitally blocking any flow of information from outside the country that might clue the populace in to the fact that this is actually not normal.
China is.
Seriously, if America seems that bad in your eyes, passports are cheap and China is desperate for Westerners with business skills of any kind right now. Come on over and see first hand just how much worse it can get.
Indeed, it's quite drastic in degrees.
Yes, much has been fabricated in history. But they aren't brainwashing people with removal of content and having to teach them the truth to help them keep erasing history. Big difference. If only we could hav access to a real-history, the things we might see... but we can't really know if fantastic claims about ancient times are true or not... just speculation. ;)
Exactly, see Napoleon's quote in the thread below...
Truth, lie, history, what does it all matter? Civilization is but a set of lies agreed upon by its component members. The West believes in the fiction of freedom, democracy, equality, rights, and some such nonsense to dull the peasants into cooperating with their betters. The CCP is more obtuse and brutal in their sociopolitical control mechanism. The older, more civilized societies used religion and moral fiction to guide the masses into cooperation. Human social organization always opetates in hierarchy with power as its only coin. The only choice for the masses is acquiescing to more elegant or more obtuse means of control. More the lesser men are allotted influence, more obtuse the control mechanism devolves.