"In Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States Since 1492”, he writes, “The historian’s distortion is more than technical, it is ideological; it is released into a world of contending interests, where any chosen emphasis supports (whether the historian means to or not) some kind of interest, whether economic or political or racial or national or sexual.” (4)
So Zinn tells a different history of early America; not the version of the political and economic elite, but that of the common people. And the truths he reveals are very different, and much more disturbing than what we were taught in school. But almost as disturbing is the notion that we really can’t rely on, and indeed need to reconsider, just about everything we were ever taught."
"Disturbing yes, but also potentially liberating if the realization sinks in that we need to question what we are still being told today. And isn’t that what the Occupy Wall Street movement is about? People are waking up and questioning the story we are being told by the political and economic elites and the media they control. People are beginning to see that money and power skew everything, to such an extent that we really never know what the facts and truth are"
"I’m talking about what’s being called a "resource-based economic model"(9), a holistic social and economic system in which the planetary resources are held as the common heritage of all the earth's inhabitants. It is a system in which all goods and services are available to everyone without the use of money, credits, barter, or any other form of debt or servitude. After all, that’s mostly the system we’ve had for about 95% of human existence, and one which was most nobly expressed in some of the Native American Indian cultures. Some people, like Steve McDonald, are envisioning that we are now entering a period in our evolution that some are calling “Neo-tribalism," where “we begin to see the Earth as one complex living system with its own intelligence, and ourselves as an integral part of it all. Now the tribe is humanity itself and our sacred land is planet Earth. There’s a trend towards a non-interfering minimalistic lifestyle that’s in harmony with nature, while maintaining all the advantages of our high technology.”
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