The entire point of history is to revise it as new information and opinions become available. History isn't about facts but opinions, a recorded history of eve

The entire point of history is to revise it as new information and opinions become available. History isn't about facts but opinions, a recorded history of every person to cross the rubicon probably isn't important. How caesar crossing the rubicon influenced modern times is, and since modern times change history should too. 100 years ago it might have been a really good thing, in 100 years with China as the dominant player maybe one could say Caesar led to a hubris in the west, or something like that, etc, etc, etc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_revisionism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_revisionism With out historical revisionism Stalin would be seen as an equal to FDR in pulling his country out of depression through the grand ideas of collective farming and 5 year plans, perhaps why CCR remarked '5 year plans and new deals, wrapped in golden chains'