“If it became possible completely to demolish the entire past through a strong will, we would immediately be transported into the realm of autono-mous gods, and world history would suddenly be for us nothing but a dreamy self-deception: the curtain falls, and man finds himself like a child playing with worlds, like a child who awakens at the glow of dawn and, laughing, wipes the terrible dreams from his brow.”
Hasn't this been done by totalitarian regimes & arguably the internet
