So I was reading Eckhart Tolle tonight: “Usually, the future is a replica of the past,” which in our present context is a rather disturbing prospect. The past is, in pertinent part, a long line of madmen who lead their hapless tribes and countries into senseless bloody conflict, and it has never solved a thing or served a reasonable purpose, and it’s still going on. At least, that’s the way I read history.
This gave me an idea: history!
We have, perhaps for the first time ever, a chance to really effect how history records what is going on. We have the technology to create a viable grassroots record. We can write it ourselves, and make it much harder for Big Brother to claim “Oceana has always been at war with Eastasia.“
So here’s a start:
Bush’s Legacy: The President Who Cried Wolf. This is a special comment by Keith Olbermann. We should save this, and everything else we see that captures the truth, and keep it moving around the net. Create a repository of the truth.
Speaking of which, check out truthout.org.
Metaphor 
OTOH, I just read a post in a blog that said, essentially, "activism" no longer takes to the streets, no longer is energized by action, but is content to sit back and type entries to blogs and send exhorting emails to their representatives–emails that get less attention than the handsome contributions of well-heeled corporate donors. So maybe we–bloggers and TV viewers–can contribute to historical truth, but are we doing anything, are we doing enough, to change what that history comes to be?
Really good idea! At a subliminallevel, I always worry about the loss of truth. People forget so easily and reshape history to suit themselves and to suit governments or make it up. I think the desire for truth is really quite rare, and the louder voice gets heard. Who ever thought we were pure?