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History of lies and lies of history imperil America's mental health

by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News

November 19, 2007

If we are to liberate ourselves from this tyranny we I believe will need to examine carefully all, and rewrite much, of what we have been taught to think of as our history. To proceed with a grossly misrepresentative version of our past is to fail a basic test of mental functioning.

A part of the formal clinical mental status exam consists of
an assessment of orientation. It is very simple:
 
Orientation

This frequently looks at whether the person knows the time (including the date), place (where he/she are), person (who he/she is), and situation (that he/she is in).

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_status_examination
 

I think it becomes self evident that a large part of the population that is dependent on the manifold parts of the mass media for their answers to some of these questions would fail at least one question on the exam. Hence the paradox, the normal
response defines the person as failing a test for normal mental functioning.

Extreme arguments can be made that this rewrite of history, and hence restructuring of belief, needs to go all the way back to the first warrior conquerors. I suspect though that an optimal result would be obtained if we decide to concentrate our energies on the official versions of history since November 22, 1963.

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