Sunday, March 04, 2007

A Speechy for You (Salz inside joke, don't read unless you're in his class... or else)

Misinformation. Seems harmless, powerless. Why, it’s just a little word. Could “misinformation” ever deal any real destruction? After all, it’s just “information” with miss missing an s at the beginning. However, this little word conveys a meaning that is undoubtedly powerful and potentially dangerous. The meaning of it is false information spread ignorantly. Propaganda is not misinformation, that would be disinformation. Disinformation. Seems harmless, powerless. Why, it’s just a little word. Could “disinformation” ever deal any real destruction? Yes, the cruelest criminals cram false information down their subjects throats and oppress millions, but it’s not important when compared with what I’m here to talk about. What I’m here to talk about is far more pressing than any disinformation in the world today. What I’m here to talk about is obscenely mis misinformation that has permeated the schools of the world, plaguing it like the black plague plagued Europe. What I’ve traveled here tonight to talk to you about is the flat out lie that ancient Europeans ate corn. Corn, of all things! Any two-year old prodigy can tell you that this is just a mistranslation of wheat, corn was only from the Americas, for the Americas, and in the Americas at that time. This oft-propagated translating error’s popularity climb must be brought to a screeching halt immediately.
The key to ending this campaign of misinformation is to take the fight to the source. In this case, the authors of many major history books. The only people who could end this are those with degrees in history. For example, let’s say we have a hypothetical history teacher for the sake of argument, Mr. Slaz, if Mr. Slaz decides to send this letter, he will be protecting the minds of our youths, protecting the reputation for truthfulness of our literature, and protecting the memories of our wheat-scarfing friends in ancient Europe, where there was no corn.

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