Airbrushed From History

John Ball writes;
We live in a hierarchical society, one in which everybody obeys orders, one in which everyone has a boss. The principle of power is instilled at an early age, when children are taken out of the family, with its natural and God given authority, and placed in schools under the power of a boss, the teacher, where they are taught conformity, boredom and obedience.
History is taught as the story of power. When there is no history of power, these times are denigrated as the 'Dark Ages' or 'Prehistory'. Civilisation is equated with blind obedience to power. Those who live outside of power structures are presented as non-people, as savages, as little better than animals, despite the opposite being true, that those who live in horizontally structured societies use their God given agency, whilst those who obey leaders are those whose full humanity is diminished.
 Even when the history of ordinary people is taught, such as the history of the blacks in America, it is still taught through the prism of power. The Afro Americans were the victims of power, but it was still power, still the same coin even if the face showing is tails rather than heads.
The nineteenth and twentieth century saw an unprecedented onslaught on ordinary people by the adherents of the military bureaucratic complex, by those of diminished humanity against those who exercise their full humanity. And as the peoples of the world were defeated by the State their history was obliterated, their culture denied, their memory destroyed, erased as completely as Carthage was by the Romans, its land salted so it would never live again.
The experience of the vast majority of people for nearly all of history has been one of cooperation not domination, yet that history is rewritten from the perspective of the victory of domination, people's experiences are falsified, their own experiences and those of their ancestors interiorised from the perspective of hierarchical power.
Even in highly individualist societies such as England there have always been  communities of producers, whether fishermen, farmers, miners, and so on, where people survive not through competition and domination, but through cooperation. Shared ownership, mutual aid,  'ownership' - to the extent that such a notion exists -  being restricted to home, clothing, tools.
For all human history, until recent years, people have lived in societies. Only recently has society been superseded by the State. Society by definition meant mutual aid, free giving, a lack of power, an absence of reward and punishment.
For many hundreds of years people lived in societies whose truths were reflected in the Christian religion. The sacrificial love of every man, the unconditional love of every woman, were the very stuff and essence of life.
Of course, lurking in the shadows of our fallen world, was power, hierarchy, the men of violence.
As power grew and authority diminished, new religions were created that replaced the old  Christian faith. The Council of Trent created a new Catholic faith, one based on obedience and morality.
For some time the old religion, the old ways of life, survived in part, in rural Europe, in places where the Protestants were strong. But even amongst the Protestants, moralism, the deification of obedience took hold, laying the foundation for the brutalised labour of the industrial revolution and the militarisation of society.
And so society has come to mean the State and religion has come to mean Morality, and the true life of the Peoples has been airbrushed from history.