The Memory Hole

I think that stories get forgotten not because of a conspiracy to bury them, but because it's inconvenient or uncomfortable to remember them. What feels great for Americans to remember about the World War II era is going to Europe and kicking Nazi butt. And so we tell ourselves infinite stories about that. But less comfortable stories about the Americans who in very large numbers didn't want us to fight on the side of the Nazis. The other part of it though, and you could take this as sort of, of good news, as good news are just sort of sterile diagnostics, but losers get forgotten.