BELIEFS COME from people. They don’t just float in the air — it takes real people to transmit beliefs. And if you say that certain beliefs are incorrect, then the people who transmitted those beliefs were, for some reason, transmitting incorrect beliefs. How and why did this happen? And this article deals with the “how” of it.
The point is not to convince the reader of anything in particular; that comes later. But simply to blow the lid off. And this lid on what I will call “the main narrative of US history” was put in place at a low end (before puberty) and at a high end (after puberty).
The Low End
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