History is always about the Greats, not about common people. Common people, who fought, gave their lives and suffered all along to make their Kings Great. Volumes upon volumes have been written about the exploits of Darius the Great, Alexander the Great, Catherine the Great, Peter the Great, Frederick the Great, and other self-styled "greats" whose major accomplishments were the forceful exploitation and suppression of toiling populations. Very few ever recorded how the course of history was changed by the women and men who created the crafts and generated the skills of civilization.
Here is a poem, " Questions from a Worker Who Reads". by Bertolt Brecht, which says it all!!!
Who built the seven gates of Thebes?
The books are filled with names of Kings.
Was it kings who hauled the craggy loads of stones?
And Babylon, so many times destroyed,
Who raised that city up each time?
In which of Lima,s houses, glittering with gold, lived those who built it?
On the evening that the Wall of China was finished
where did the masons go?
Philip of Spain wept when his fleet went down,
Was there no one else who wept?
Frederick the Great won the Seven Years War,
Who won it with him?
A victory on every page
who cooked the victory feast?
A great man every ten years,
Who paid the costs?..... (From the book, History as Mystery by Michael Parenti).
Dear friends, read, reflect and share!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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