It becomes harder and harder to be less cynical towards the presentation of information considered to be "factual". Cynical because I feel betrayed in the way information has been presented and how that has changed my attitude towards the information. But is it really bad to have been exposed to such knowledge in a linear fashion? There is a saying that less is more; if the victor or the surivor decides history, and history is a documentation for the benefit of mankind (and to satisfy our thirst to collect information and preserve it the way we want to remember it), why should I be cynical about history as I have been told or taught? Why is it that we find raw unbiased information to be so necessary and valuable when, in the end, individuals will take that information and alter it according to one's own standards and assumptions and knowledge? Wanting to obtain the purest form of information untouched by other people's opinions seems to be derived from a greed for the chance to form an idea or thought belonging to the one receiving such information. Originality, a way to be remembered perhaps.