Indeed! I bet Mexican historiography remembers it as you say!
Surprisingly, noā¦ itās often attributed to Churchill, but itās not him eitherā¦ maybe Herman Goring according to this:
But this attributes it to Walter Benjamin(?):
And here is more on the Churchill/Goring thingieā¦
Honestly, as a historian, Iām not a fan of such ātruismsā because they feel so reductive, but they are popularā¦ that and āhistory repeats itselfāā¦
Writing history from the perspective of the nation-state has done serious damage to our perceptions of the past, Iām afraidā¦
Still veering off-topic, sorry!
I will say that I first heard the ātruismā while studying āThe Peloponnesian Warā in college, as a way to understand that perhaps the book wasnāt being as objective as it claimed to be.
And Iām not sure this side conversation is all that much OT, considering the fact that HOW this period of history is passed down to future generations by historians and by social commentary is going to be very interesting.
That is trueā¦ Thatās a different context to the phrase than how itās usually deployed, Iād think, and a far more productive one!
The firehose of information is making things worse, not better. We (collectively) canāt remember things a few years back, let alone carefully preserve and archive information in a way that will be useful to historians centuries later.
I believe the only reason the administration has not availed itself this time of its oft used tool ā lying (ex: We now have enough testing equipment) ā is because there are too many honest CDC people tied into this whoād blow the whistle.
Boo Hoo because corporations are people too.
Airlines are buying cheap gas futures as we speak and heās trying to āsaveā them? WTF
But actual human beings who wonāt get nonrefundable ticket costs back? Nah, we donāt matter.
Bonus: It includes a Kellyanne screenshot ready for a Beschizza photoshop.
And the worm reverts to type.
This kinda reminds me of that Paris Hilton photoshop where somebody edited her wearing a āStop Being Poorā shirt.
^NY Times reprint
You can count on the prez to deliver the best āyaāll are probably gonna dieā messages
Well, hell, no one box. Anyway, Il Douche wants to leave the passengers on the cruise ship in SF bay so his numbers donāt go up. What an assā¦
