On the Abuse of Famous Lines in History
Oh, Benjamin Franklin, how we love to forget you and your times
There’s nothing like a little jaunt through history to remind a person that, while we live in exceptional times, so too have the vast majority of modern human beings.
The dramas we come up with! The schisms we form!
Notions of the US as a set of “united” states especially fall apart when one looks closely at other eras of regional in-fighting, but today w…
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