In the greater scheme of things.

History was never a subject I took at school - in fact I opted for more practical things like geography, as in my naiveté, I thought it was irrelevant to learn about the past.
These days, history has become a passion. I love reading about it, experiencing aspects of it when visiting old places and seeing it repeat itself.
It comes alive when taught with passion, interest and humour. It can show us how to conduct ourselves, it can steer us away from disaster. So, why don’t we learn. Why, dear humanity, do we do the same things over and over and expect a different result. Are we insane? Einstein might have thought so, with his definition of insanity just mentioned in the previous line.

Maybe it’s not insanity, I think it’s just each generation thinking that they are cleverer than the previous one. Just look at my own youthful attitude to history, similar thinking to the bumper sticker: "Employ a teenager while they still know everything."
Seriously, and with respect to todays teenagers, they do seem to have their stuff together - way more that my generation. We were the bunch that came out of the sixties and seventies - Generation X - A generation of people who consider ourselves entitled. Even today where most Gen X's are in their middle years, we still see the world as our oyster and wonder in consternation when the oyster turns out to be a lemon. We have a lot to answer for - the dot com bubble, the credit crunch and the death of disco. We are the generation that saw the age of excess come and go.

My teenage son seems to have a pretty adult outlook on life - in fact this Sunday morning, I was awoken by his alarm going off reminding him to go to work. He has a weekend job at the local hardware store. I don’t have to remind him - he just does it. My dad would have had to lure me, or kick me out of bed when I was the same age.

What’s the difference? Maybe he is just a “good” kid. I don’t think it’s that. From a young age we have encouraged him to read and to make his own informed decisions.
He also studies and loves history - he has seen the writing on the wall, by looking into the past. He also has one very big educational tool that we never had - the web.

Are we really to blame - what about all the all the kids that studied history when I was in high school in the seventies and early eighties– shouldn’t they have pulled the rest of us right? They tried …. this I know. Andrew Feinstein, the ex ANC whistleblower, was at school with me and I am pretty sure he studied history. In later years he single handedly attempted to take on the corrupt elements of South Africa’s ruling party. He tried hard but the old analogy of farting against thunder applied.

The world is full of wonderful people like Andrew who earnestly try and change the world into a better place, so why don’t things change - even Barack Obama can’t get it right.

Maybe I am just jaded, but I know that it’s all about money and power, but why can the masses not take control, why can’t the”generation next” take charge. There is a glimmer of hope when we see the way the world has embraced environmental change, the way we stand together, or is there?
Temper that with the conspiracy theory of the World Wildlife Fund, along with its uber wealthy benefactors, buying up huge tracts of land and forcing humanity into urban area where it is difficult to grow food and have clean water. Think about the fact that the planet has warmed and cooled many times over the last 1000 years, but it’s all we talk about now. The oldest and most elaborate conjuring tricks are simple sleight of hand – focus on the left hand and you don’t see what the right hand is doing.

Do we really believe that there isn’t a shadow government behind all governments, do we really think it actually makes any difference who you vote for?

Do you know that members of the gazillionaire Warburg Family served on the boards of the Reichsbank of Germany and the US Fed at the same time between the two world wars?

Do you know that the US Fed is privately owned and has never been audited and does not answer to congress?

Do you know the South African Reserve bank is also privately owned?

Have you ever thought about what US Presidents Lincoln and Kennedy had in common? They both challenged the Fed - look what happened to them.

"Let me issue and control a nations money and I care not who writes it's laws" said Mayer Amschel Rothschild

So where does this leave us - we all sense that something is going on, we all get told that its hype and bull, but yet when you begin to talk to the senior citizens of this world they smile knowingly, it’s a bit like finding out it’s not what you know; it’s who you know.

That’s the kicker.....

We all know, but we just don’t know who it is and what to do about it. World peace will probably come one day, but it won’t be for our benefit, it will simply serve the purposes of the elite. The gap is widening, be aware of which side you are on.

Gerald Massey, poet and self- styled Egyptologist sums it up very nicely: "They must find it difficult.......Those who have taken authority as the truth rather than the truth as the authority"