The media war has always been with us. In the UK we all see at school the cartoon of Napoleon in George 3rd’s hand which has given rise to 200 years of Napoleon being small. Or of Hitler being a vegetarian despite his own cook saying he was a finick but never refused the meat…
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The Fatal Fantasy
I once heard a description of human beings as the only animal that believes its myth about itself. This is a striking comment, some may even say, damming of the intellect of the human race but then the intellect of the human race has always been the intellect of the few. The human race is…
Fighting Tyranny
In Hans Fallada’s almost pedestrian and normal look at Nazism and ordinary people, Alone in Berlin, he relates the true story of a working class couple who take to distributing anonymous post cards carefully inscribed with anti Nazi sentiments around the city. An act that went on for three years every week and finally cost…