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Originally posted by Lo:
It's not just obsession with a past incident which drives people to search and to question...it's a desire and a need to know the truth.
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Have you ever considered that people are sometimes in search of OTHER truths and there are only so many hours in a day?
There's a cartoon I once saw about twenty years ago with two college students sitting in front of the tv with one saying to the other "Do you remember where you were when you saw your first Kennedy assassination documentary?"
There are a lot of things which are the defining moment of a generation, but I think very often the quest for truth gets overshadowed by narcisism. Your bag and hobby horse do not have to be my bag and hobby horse.
Besides which, those who remember history may still be doomed to repeat it too, cf. the recent "Freedom Fries" nonsense. Doesn't that sound an awful lot like "Liberty Cabbage"?