snuff music from the deep fix part one

opaque memory, slave to time, forgetting, memory and forgetting, the two are intrinsically linked like a coin's head to its tail, spinning through space and time, in our minds, when you share a memory with a friend it splits in two, their memory and forgetting, and your own, the more people who share the same memory the more the events are separated from the original.
history has never been an exact science. we may be able to tell the winner from the looser but it means little over a period of time. england won the war and beat germany, yet by the 1970's germany was the economic superpower in europe while england floundered, what does that mean, same for japan and america. in history the tibetans were the cruel invaders of china, their horrific deeds are forgotten in time, currently everyone hates the chinese invaders. in a few years tibetan buddhism will be absorbed into china as all chinas foes are, and it will germinate into a meme that will take over it's host, we may even see a greater tibet as chinese people convert to the more powerful force than absorption, you can't stop an idea like buddhism, it is like trying to sink a water droplet in an ocean. thus a cycle of time is complete, the tibetans win a war without fighting it or committing an act of destruction, just like ghandi. on the other hand gengus khan, hitler, pol pot, all pursue invasion of the mind, spreading hate and fear, eventually history turns it into something else, no hitler never killed any jews, they just exaggerate the numbers, death camps, they were holiday camps. the killing fields, a holiday in cambodia, i wonder how many khmer rouge were welcomed into cabrimatta as political refugees, i met quite a few in local politics there, just average guys swept up in some kinda madness. murder is banal when it's done on such grand scales, like industry. 
the trends now are to rewrite history, to steal it, to own it, this is the way it is as we slip into the time and space of history, we see history is war itself, a war for versions, a war for truth, a bloody messy white wash, and what do we learn from it anyway.
history is the study of the past, but it really is the study of patterns, cycles, and the only one fact we know for certain is that mankind repeats itself endlessly, like a fractal pattern we are caught in the ebb and flow with our memories and forgetting.