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How to feel old: When people start writing history, and you know it's wrong because you were there yourself.


One of my biggest findings in life has been that "history" is always "recorded" in the interests of someone or something, no exceptions. Accuracy is merely an occasional byproduct that isn't actually important.


Journalism is the same




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