If you want to see how power distorts reality, check out this National Geographic description of ‘who built the pyramids of Giza’. Apparently a king ‘built’ them Really? This king quarried thousands of stones, and then heaved them into position and piled them up? The reality is that the king did sweet fuck all to build the pyramids. All he did was have the political power to command tens of thousands of workers to do it. The answer to ‘who built the pyramids’, then, should be ‘we don’t know, but we do know the elites that took credit for it’