History errantly portrays the human narrative as periodic conflicts between good guys fighting for liberty and justice against bad guys fighting to gratify an odious lust for killing. The true story is always bad guys against bad guys.
History defects from the truth because it is written with ulterior motives by the victors earmarked by narcissism and amour propre. But the oppressed exult in becoming the oppressors at the earliest opportunity. The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must irrespective of race, religion, ethnicity, nationality, gender, or sexual orientation.
The species will never accept its depravity because the truth is too threatening to survival for the sake of survival.
These words will soon be forgotten and ignored. They are written, nevertheless, because I am convinced like Socrates that the unexamined life is not worth living.
I wonder if this attitude is more White European. As Vine Deloria Distinguished between pre-Colombian Western Hemisphere peoples and Western Europeans as those with wisdom vs knowledge.