19-10-2018, 09:26 PM
How can real experts on JFK's foreign policy like Mr. DiEugenio sort out all the reasons that "historians" like David Halberstam might lie about actual historical facts?
It seems that some like Larry Sabado (of the University of Virginia) are professional conservatives and some like Chomsky are apparently professional leftists.
But why does the public buy more books that are built around lies than books that really dig deep into facts and report truth?
Sad that "patriotism" is built around lies like the sinking of the battleship Maine, the Lusitania, Pearl Harbor, 9-11 and on and on.
Why does "patriotism" have to be built on lies and not on truth? Or at least on half-truths or three-quarter truths? Is reality really that intolerable and that bad? Or that miserable?
I guess you have to chalk it up to mythology. Every culture has their myths, be it creation myths or mythical creatures, etc. etc.
I try real hard to accept the fact that one's fixation on the truth in history and one's possible future efforts and discoveries about the history of the 1950's and 1960''s would be considered unpatriotic and opposed by most people.
The well-known people who post here on this site seem to be able to walk the line between actual truth and facts on the one hand, and "patriotic" myth-making or image-making of Presidents like JFK.
It seems at this point that the few who keep the faith about the JFK assassination, etc. are like the pilot light in a furnace. The pilot light is a very small flame but is necessary to expand the heat at a later point in time when the season changes and people expand the heat and flames later as needed.
So don't give up. The truth will broaden down the road. And maybe eventually will be accepted.
Or not.
James Lateer
It seems that some like Larry Sabado (of the University of Virginia) are professional conservatives and some like Chomsky are apparently professional leftists.
But why does the public buy more books that are built around lies than books that really dig deep into facts and report truth?
Sad that "patriotism" is built around lies like the sinking of the battleship Maine, the Lusitania, Pearl Harbor, 9-11 and on and on.
Why does "patriotism" have to be built on lies and not on truth? Or at least on half-truths or three-quarter truths? Is reality really that intolerable and that bad? Or that miserable?
I guess you have to chalk it up to mythology. Every culture has their myths, be it creation myths or mythical creatures, etc. etc.
I try real hard to accept the fact that one's fixation on the truth in history and one's possible future efforts and discoveries about the history of the 1950's and 1960''s would be considered unpatriotic and opposed by most people.
The well-known people who post here on this site seem to be able to walk the line between actual truth and facts on the one hand, and "patriotic" myth-making or image-making of Presidents like JFK.
It seems at this point that the few who keep the faith about the JFK assassination, etc. are like the pilot light in a furnace. The pilot light is a very small flame but is necessary to expand the heat at a later point in time when the season changes and people expand the heat and flames later as needed.
So don't give up. The truth will broaden down the road. And maybe eventually will be accepted.
Or not.
James Lateer