Back when I was a teen, I used to view History as a joke.
"So what king xyz killed abc and 80,000 men died ?"
"Oh, art ? some fancy patterns and sketches ? who gives a fuck."
I used to be a hardcore liberal(?) muslim back then.
My appreciation of History (and Art) started after I played Assassin's Creed Origins (and 3).
The deserts, mountains, greenery, canals, people, it fascinated me, something deep within me got awakened that day.
These were not just some names in a book, these weren't just some lines drawn by some smart savages.
They tell a story of the people. They tell a story of their laughter, sorrow, ups and down, they are a link between people of the land and their forefather.
I could not appreciate this before because my entire society consisted of fundamentalist mullahs and highnosed westernized atheists, with some history the govt. told us.
Since birth nobody had told nor showed me the beauty nor the importance of History and Culture.
My parents and the mullahs are only concerned about the Arabs and their culture/history, something I could not relate to, as it only consisted of war, and war, and le glory of Islam.
It was less culture/history and more propaganda.
The mullahs who did know anything about Bengal were like "There were some savages in this land, then the glorious muslims came and formed/created the Bangali race", more propaganda.
The highnosed Atheists themselves knew almost nothing except western politics and reddit flamewars, western propaganda.
And The government barely mentioned any history that did not involve Sheikh Mujib and the Liberation war, govt. propaganda.
My own parents and most mullah's historical knowledge was limited to Profit Muhammed and the history/politics of his time.
The nationalist mullah's knowledge was limited to Bengal Sultanate and Mughal era.
And the govt. was limited to Pakistani rule of BD.
I always rejected these, because even as a child I could sense something was wrong with the information that was being given to me, that this was not information, but threads of the devil, propaganda.
I guess part of my disdain of History and Culture was because I subconciously viewed it as something hostile.
AC Origins was the first time in my life I could appreciate History and Culture as is, without any ill intent, without any ulterior motive, it was deeply soothing, it gave my soul peace.
I bought a book written by Issac Asimov, on the egyptians, he had two very anti-islamic and anti-christian remarks while discussing the downfall of Egyptian society and culture, on a book that span 200 pages, two lines created such hatred in my heart for Abrahamic religions that a childhood of brainwashing was worn off.
Abrahamic religions destroyed Egyptian culture and society.
>But le romans and greeks
They absorbed the Egyptians, they did not erase their identity off of the face of the planet.
I looked to my people, Ashok and Palas, hundreds of years of history buried deep inside rotting books and starving historians.
These people, the buddhists, they were my people, this was our history, not some muslim badshah and his 56 sons born in a whorehouse.
This turned me from a liberal muslim to a liberal.
Then I played Assassin's Creed 3.
The philosophy and politics between the Templars and the Assassins intruiged me, Haytham Kenway's speeches shook me to my core.
Liberals here preach democracy and freedom, but both are a meme.
Democracy could function in a small scale, in a village, but your average joe is neither concerned nor informed about geopolitics enough to have a good judgement, the average joe is prone to emotions and propaganda.
Freedom ? people are selfish, corporation are profit-driven.
Freedom is an invitation to Chaos.
If freedom is such a good word why don't we get rid of laws and regulations to have a true "free-market" ?
Westernized liberals and atheists were hypocrites. They preached freedom and equality while turning a blind eye to anything that didn't accomodate their worldview, they are as bad as the people they criticize.
More importantly, the game showed the 7 years war and how the Templars (Anglo-Jews) won and slowly took control over the entire world.
I was taught about the British and their rule in schools, but only to pass exams, and weren't informed about how much they really took from us.[Expand Post]
Digging into it further, I was shocked beyond belief, the entire backbone of western civilization was built by looting and pillaging Bengal (and later India as a whole).
Yes there is looting and extracting wealth, then there is what the British did for 200 years.
Why do westernized liberals like to bootlick the same people who put us in such a shitty situation in the first place, don't they have a modicum of self-respect ?
My descent in /pol/tardism began.
This turned me from a liberal to a human.
Islam offers to quench the thirst of your people's soul, by first taking away your water then feeding you camelpiss mixed with mercury to ensure a slow and subhuman death for your people.
Western Liberalism/Conservatism ("Westernism") offers to solve your people's hunger (material desires) by killing them of thirst (spiritual death)