Knowledge is power. Nobody denies that. But besides meaning…
Knowledge is power. Nobody denies that. But besides meaning "you can inprove by gaining knowledge" it also means "you protect the power you have by keeping your knowledge from others". There is no reason to believe that those with a lot of power would share their knowledge with the people. On the contrary. They would keep it secret and invent all kinds of false explanations instead. We have no idea what knowledge our rulers have.
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if you believe in human rights, then knowing human history is a human right
I'd differentiate between human rights and individual rights. I believe in individual rights, which are based on self-ownership. Knowing anything is most certainly not an individual right.
maybe human right isn't the right framework... but something feels wrong when a small group of [[info aristocrats]] hoard human history