Editor's note: As the internet became our primary medium of communication, society gradually came to resemble our new technology — the Clown World, we call it, which fundamentally altered our historical record keeping. In the first place, our history rapidly vanishes. But maybe even more pernicious, it has never been so easy to re-write the past, or to construct a worldview entirely of soothing lies.

The noble savage, or the notion Europeans have always been evil, while primitive man has always been peaceful, beautiful, and spiritually ascended, has never been more popular. But where the internet takes, it also gives, and as well-constructed as our false histories have become, it has likewise never been so easy, or so inexpensive, to combat delusion with a meme.

Today, it’s the ‘noble Aztec empire’ vs. reality, as presented by a small gang of shitposting historians. River Page explores in this gripping mid-week read.