Sunday, September 12, 2004

 

Presciently, H.L. Mencken Advises The 2004 Bush Campaign

from his vantage point, on the pages of The Chicago Sunday Tribune, July 25, 1926:

. . . No normal human being wants to hear the truth. It is the passion of a small and aberrant minority of men, most of them pathological. They are hated for telling it while they live, and when they die they are swiftly forgotten. What remains to the world, in the field of wisdom, is a series of long tested and solidly agreeable lies.

posted by Michael 10:29 PM