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It is strange to think that history is merely a compilation of written circumstances. We weren't there, so how do we know it happened.

History is written by the winners, anyway. What do the losers get to say?

All of this comes from The Da Vinci Code. Now, I am the world's least qualified expert on any of the "facts" or "fictions" in the novel, but what I do know, is that it is certainly causing me to question. Not so much to question what or what is not true, but, rather, to question why it's true? Is it all about having faith? We don't know what happened, but we have faith that whatever happened happened in the way that it is told? What it comes down to, ultimately, is that people don't question what is. I see that all the time. No one really knows why they do what they do. Someone just told them at some point to do it, so they do it. Is this healthy?

We are taught to fear and to be oppressed, yet we are free. But I don't really think that we are. This is just something that we are taught to believe so that we won't question.

By the way, in 2002, approximately 34% of first-years at the U of C came from households between $100,000 and $200,000 a year. 12% are from families earning more than $250,000.

Wow. I didn't know that I knew so many wealthy people. Speaking of wealth...what does that mean? I believe that wealth rules the world, so does that mean that 46% of us will rule the future--and write history?