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Here, in fact, the feudal order continues astonishingly after a thousand years, rather like a mammoth preserved in ice.
“his hired guns—lobbyists, think tanks, battalions of public relations people, and obsequious journalists”
― Davos Man
― Davos Man
“fake history can also be used for propaganda, to abuse others, and can turn out to be dangerous, even deadly.”
― Fake History: 101 Things that Never Happened
― Fake History: 101 Things that Never Happened
“Seeing previous generations be really dumb makes us feel good about ourselves, and seeing them daring to take risks that we are now no longer allowed to take also makes us feel good, especially when we’re in the mood for being grumpy and annoyed with all the rules of our modern world.”
― Fake History: 101 Things that Never Happened
― Fake History: 101 Things that Never Happened
“[describing 'the prime minister' i.e Goering] He loved war as a child loves Christmas”
― Mephisto
― Mephisto
“Then, Wagner premiered his successful Der Ring des Nibelungen opera (often known simply as The Ring Cycle) and his visions, along with those of his costume designer Carl Emil Doepler, spread across the world. He mixed together an awesome but peculiar combination of Norse, Germanic, Bronze Age and Viking history with a massive dose of imagination and unleashed an army of Valkyries and ‘barbarians’ with horned and winged helmets that marched into our collective consciousness.”
― Fake History: 101 Things that Never Happened
― Fake History: 101 Things that Never Happened
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