When it comes to historical narratives, there’s what everyone expects or wants to hear – volumes of lies. Historical narratives are formulated by consensus to reflect falsely conceived images, consisting of high virtue, justice, and even heroism – everything populations want to desperately believe about themselves. But they’ve merely been fed fanciful fictions rather than brutal reality. As for the truth – no one wants to hear so much as a whisper of that. After all, no one wants to have their safe, comfortable illusions destroyed, particularly those linked with a prominent historical figure in which an emotional or psychological investment has been thoroughly made. Lies are sickly sweet addictions while the truth remains often much too acetous to digest. The illusion of safety and comfort, whether of the material or psychological nature, especially when experienced or reinforced in suffocating overabundance, breed submissiveness, docile complacence in populations which over time deteriorates into apathy, solipsism, moral bankruptcy, even nihilism. Take, for example, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who American historians, according to one of the latest documentary television productions aired by PBS (Public Broadcasting System), now regard as an historically important and major American political figure, an intellectual of the highest caliber. Without doubt, those who still stubbornly subscribe to that historical characterization will reject out of hand any criticism which undermines the glowing esteem attributed to the former U.S. Senator. Unfortunately, for those brainwashed by and thoroughly invested in the alleged veracity of such panegyrical historical accolades, the following results from further and in-depth investigation into Moynihan only serves to knock him off his lofty pedestal. Rather, if nothing else, ‘Moynihan’ was a skilled thespian, a professional illusionist and legendary actor from golden era Hollywood, a vaudevillian-styled imposter hidden behind an elaborately conceived, modified disguise.
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