Power is colossal within the human race and desired naturally by all beings. It identifies with authority, influence, dominance and control; all elements associated to distinguishing those who subsist with superior significance within society. Leaders typically aim for power and strive to reach the top of the chain, however only some can qualify to be a leader. It may come with family name, certain characteristics, or money. With such power, the extent of authority obtained is considerably high. Equally important, the impact on the world those with power is immense. George Orwell wrote within a novel “Who controls the past controls the future. And who controls the present controls the past” (Zinn 89). Howard Zinn elucidated this quote in his
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Each side is formed through a biased opinion. This is the act of ensuring that one’s own party is favoured, even if it is unjust and false for the other party. It can be as far from the truth, but still considered to be legitimate. “…Thoughtful historians began to realize that the arrangements of facts to make history involved subjective judgments and intellectual choices” (McNeill 76). Subjective judgments are ways to twisting the truth, typically to make a fact one-sided and prejudiced. These prejudices evolve into ideals that greatly impact the world. Once an ideology is formed, it will shape society and shape new methods of thinking. Seeing that, McNeill states that this is the theory of human life (McNeill 77). A fact that is widely believed becomes a truth, impacting and perusing behaviour of beings. Similarly, this goes to show the flexibility and elasticity in the human race and society. Humans “change, adapt, and learn new ways of doing things” (McNeill 77) illustrating that behaviour can simply be persuade. Since one group is accustomed with their own beliefs, the beliefs of another group seems to be the mythical one. Myth turns into truth, and not many can capture the essence that myth must not be regarded as the ultimate truth. Likewise, those who create the myth form it with bias. These are the rulers who determine the ultimate faith of a society. They form the ideologies, …show more content…
World War two underwent extreme bias on each opposing side. Hitler was a ruler who fed his country a number of lies that advantaged solely his own country, Germany. These inaccuracies including the bashing of all other races, religions, ethnicities and beliefs. Since he had so much authority in Germany, civilians quickly began to consider and trust him. They embodied a new ideology that changed their behaviour to non-Germans. The ideology was encompassed entirely by racist principles as the Germans were led to develop an understanding that they are on top of the world. Hitler created a myth that he successfully turned into a truth for his people. He started a new wave of of beliefs, to result in a Genocide against ultimately the Jewish race. This illuminates the power that a myth has, as he rationalized to his people that it is okay to murder another human being because of an ethnic dissimilarity and his own biased beliefs against the Jewish
Each side is formed through a biased opinion. This is the act of ensuring that one’s own party is favoured, even if it is unjust and false for the other party. It can be as far from the truth, but still considered to be legitimate. “…Thoughtful historians began to realize that the arrangements of facts to make history involved subjective judgments and intellectual choices” (McNeill 76). Subjective judgments are ways to twisting the truth, typically to make a fact one-sided and prejudiced. These prejudices evolve into ideals that greatly impact the world. Once an ideology is formed, it will shape society and shape new methods of thinking. Seeing that, McNeill states that this is the theory of human life (McNeill 77). A fact that is widely believed becomes a truth, impacting and perusing behaviour of beings. Similarly, this goes to show the flexibility and elasticity in the human race and society. Humans “change, adapt, and learn new ways of doing things” (McNeill 77) illustrating that behaviour can simply be persuade. Since one group is accustomed with their own beliefs, the beliefs of another group seems to be the mythical one. Myth turns into truth, and not many can capture the essence that myth must not be regarded as the ultimate truth. Likewise, those who create the myth form it with bias. These are the rulers who determine the ultimate faith of a society. They form the ideologies, …show more content…
World War two underwent extreme bias on each opposing side. Hitler was a ruler who fed his country a number of lies that advantaged solely his own country, Germany. These inaccuracies including the bashing of all other races, religions, ethnicities and beliefs. Since he had so much authority in Germany, civilians quickly began to consider and trust him. They embodied a new ideology that changed their behaviour to non-Germans. The ideology was encompassed entirely by racist principles as the Germans were led to develop an understanding that they are on top of the world. Hitler created a myth that he successfully turned into a truth for his people. He started a new wave of of beliefs, to result in a Genocide against ultimately the Jewish race. This illuminates the power that a myth has, as he rationalized to his people that it is okay to murder another human being because of an ethnic dissimilarity and his own biased beliefs against the Jewish