(October 31, 2013 at 1:09 pm)Esquilax Wrote: It relies on the audience having absolutely no knowledge or interest in the affairs of other countries, where the obvious falsehood of such an idea is easily spotted.
That's why Americans eat it up.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell