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Originally Posted by The Third Man
That was not my intent...to silence you...it was my intent to ask you to look deeper and employ your greater mind to go outside today's reality to examine the reality which came before you. History is about the 'place of the then' , not the place of the then seen through the eyes of today.
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Oh, no. That was the intent. Don't worry, I'm not afraid of you. In fact, I used to be you. When I used to look back at history, I did so with blinders, so to speak. I adhered to the
Index, conveniently disregarding anything that conflicted with [then] my world view as biased and invalid. The world was black and white; there were good guys and bad guys. But then I came to the realization that, most of the time, it isn't a game of cowboys and indians and one man's hero is always another man's villain.