Dishonesty is the Second-Best Policy by David Mitchell

Author:David Mitchell [David Mitchell]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781783351992
Publisher: Guardian Faber Publishing
Published: 2019-01-16T16:00:00+00:00

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Titans of the 21st Century

According to the old-fashioned view, history is forged by great men. The slightly less old-fashioned view is that it’s forged by great men and women. A more academically respectable interpretation is that it’s forged by nebulous forces that can’t be encapsulated in a photograph.

It’s hard to believe that, in the age of selfies and Instagram, such a view of the past can prevail for long. It’s simply too complicated and inconvenient. I mean, you can summon an immediate taxi through an app, so it’s frankly unacceptable that your smartphone shouldn’t also have access to a snap of whatever history’s the fault of.

So, in the forthcoming spirit of the age, this section contains my thoughts and feelings, from various moments over the last few years, about some important people – a few of the big hitters. As you’d expect, they’re all white and they’re all rightwing. Worse than that, all but one of them is still alive.

To be fair, I suppose, if we don’t like how history is going, it’s up to us to change it. A bad workman blames his tools. This chapter is all about those tools.

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