It seems that everything I thought was true isn't so.
When I was little, America was a heroic nation that had fought the N-word with a Z-s.
It turns out that Churchill had to send Intrepid to trick them into it, because huge swathes of that population was just as racist, and political figures had massive investments in Germany at that time. There wasn't any military action taken as a result of some "moral outrage" - the US was hit at Pearl Harbour and dragged into the conflict, even as it turned away ships carrying Holocaust refugees.
When I was little, Sir Winston Churchill had a good name.
Turns out that he presided over similar concentration camps as the Germans, in the British Empire, despised Ghandi so much that he advocated for the man to starve to death, and was deeply racist. "Keep England White" was a slogan that he wanted to use, along with chemical weapons against "uncivilized tribes" like the Kurds.
Mohandas Ghandi.
A champion of the downtrodden, and a born avatar of Equality?
Not so much. Hailing from South Africa, Ghandi was convinced that Blacks were incorrigibly lazy as a young man. Despite his upbringing, he did manage to grow into a better man in the end, becoming a strong vocal opponent of India's despicable caste system.
The Space Program
Humanity's greatest endeavour, collectively striving to understand the Universe, and to touch the stars?
Nope.
This was a race between two groups of monkeys to master the technology to throw poop at each other. The great Space Race had a main purpose: to get a delivery system for atomic warheads ahead of the other guys, in order to dominate the planet.
The Church.
It was something good and true, in my childhood. It's officers were people you were supposed to trust.
Now, it is become a cartoonishly villainous organisation, a threat to children directly, and a threat to the species in general. Trafficking in lies on an industrial scale, its waning influence is now something to celebrate.
Butter.
Formerly a thing to avoid, according to the Medical Establishment, because those saturated fats will give you lethal cholesterol and kill you.
Now?
Butter is considered vastly better for people to eat than the tasteless trans-fat laden poison known as margarine.
Speaking of Doctors, here's a bunch of them smoking cigarettes in advertisements.
Bruce Lee.
Ok, **** it, Bruce Lee was for real.
When I was little, America was a heroic nation that had fought the N-word with a Z-s.
It turns out that Churchill had to send Intrepid to trick them into it, because huge swathes of that population was just as racist, and political figures had massive investments in Germany at that time. There wasn't any military action taken as a result of some "moral outrage" - the US was hit at Pearl Harbour and dragged into the conflict, even as it turned away ships carrying Holocaust refugees.
When I was little, Sir Winston Churchill had a good name.
Turns out that he presided over similar concentration camps as the Germans, in the British Empire, despised Ghandi so much that he advocated for the man to starve to death, and was deeply racist. "Keep England White" was a slogan that he wanted to use, along with chemical weapons against "uncivilized tribes" like the Kurds.
A champion of the downtrodden, and a born avatar of Equality?
Not so much. Hailing from South Africa, Ghandi was convinced that Blacks were incorrigibly lazy as a young man. Despite his upbringing, he did manage to grow into a better man in the end, becoming a strong vocal opponent of India's despicable caste system.
Humanity's greatest endeavour, collectively striving to understand the Universe, and to touch the stars?
Nope.
This was a race between two groups of monkeys to master the technology to throw poop at each other. The great Space Race had a main purpose: to get a delivery system for atomic warheads ahead of the other guys, in order to dominate the planet.
It was something good and true, in my childhood. It's officers were people you were supposed to trust.
Now, it is become a cartoonishly villainous organisation, a threat to children directly, and a threat to the species in general. Trafficking in lies on an industrial scale, its waning influence is now something to celebrate.
Formerly a thing to avoid, according to the Medical Establishment, because those saturated fats will give you lethal cholesterol and kill you.
Now?
Butter is considered vastly better for people to eat than the tasteless trans-fat laden poison known as margarine.
Speaking of Doctors, here's a bunch of them smoking cigarettes in advertisements.
Ok, **** it, Bruce Lee was for real.
