It describes the elusiveness of imitation as a goal, the creative force of dialogue with uncertainty and the way truth in art grows cheekily out of historical falsehoods.
(I didn't call the hotel to learn how many drinks were included in the price for fear that any answer short of "unlimited" would have compelled me to accuse management of purveying historical falsehoods).
Now, in the twenty-first century, as the forces allied against democratic institutions employ historical falsehoods once more as a kind of distorting mirror, it is especially painful to lose Arseny Roginsky, one of the great warriors against forgetting.
As the political heirs of the Nazis' collaborators in eastern Europe gain strength on the back of growing unemployment and poverty, and antisemitism and racist violence against Roma grow across the region, the current indulgence of historical falsehoods about the second world war can only spread this poison.
Angry at the teachers who perpetuate historical falsehoods.
Walker's conjuring of knotted up histories recalls Trump's habit of presenting bigoted historical falsehoods as facts.
We think that not having a blanket policy of taking down, you know, the mere assertion of, you know, historical falsity is – of a historical falsity – it allows for the identification of those who are expressing hatred and for more speech to step into the breach and to attack their falsehoods.
As evidence, Kerry ushered in McCain's misstatements on the historical conflict between Sunni and Shiites, his falsehood that Iran was arming al-Qaeda in Iraq (they're not), and the varying times in which the Arizona Republican has said he was against a South Korea style model of troop presence in the Middle East, something he now favors.
Several key, though non conclusive, indicators of extremist philosophy to look for include an embrace of violence, opting out of preexisting communal social and political bonds, a distinct historical narrative, and a rigid embrace of falsehoods and conspiracy theories.
But even the official historical account is shrouded in myth and blatant falsehood.
