re: #103 freetoken

It is always striking to see how popular myth back-fills, so to speak, into events of the past, using ideas that are close to what happened, if not in reality what happened.

… c.f. …

Exploitation of dramatic events is always available to the opportunistic demagogue.

I never had a true history class until I attended university. It was always fluff up to that point. I don’t even work in my degree field (I didn’t want to go to law school, or teach). But, I use the critical thinking skills from that degree every day. One of my professors was actually friends with people in the Kennedy Administration. He told us “everything you’ve heard has been filtered. Everything you read goes through an editor. But when I say I think McNamara was an ass you better believe it. But never trust anyone who told you that they heard me say that.”