Comments on: HBO Doing Sam Adams No Favors http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/hbo-doing-sam-adams-no-favors/ Jay R. Brooks on Beer Wed, 23 May 2012 23:13:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://beerzine.com/?v=3.3.2 By: rico567 http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/hbo-doing-sam-adams-no-favors/comment-page-1/#comment-1510 rico567 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:50:25 +0000 http://www.brookstonbeerbulletin.com/hbo-doing-sam-adams-no-favors/#comment-1510 "History is a fable agreed upon" is an aphorism that ignores the deeper motivations of the tendency. A better quote: "That's History; not what happened, but what people make themselves believe MUST have happened." - Alistair Cooke Samuel Adams, no less than everyone else, must bow to this principle. The indignant finger-pointing will preserve no one and no event from the inevitable human tendency to view what has happened through the filter of invidiousness. “History is a fable agreed upon” is an aphorism that ignores the deeper motivations of the tendency. A better quote: “That’s History; not what happened, but what people make themselves believe MUST have happened.” – Alistair Cooke

Samuel Adams, no less than everyone else, must bow to this principle. The indignant finger-pointing will preserve no one and no event from the inevitable human tendency to view what has happened through the filter of invidiousness.

]]> By: Stonch http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/hbo-doing-sam-adams-no-favors/comment-page-1/#comment-1509 Stonch Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:09:45 +0000 http://www.brookstonbeerbulletin.com/hbo-doing-sam-adams-no-favors/#comment-1509 "Suffice it to say that historical dramas are almost always riddled with inaccuracies" Jay, you preach to the converted! We in Britain aren't very pleased to learn we played no part in the Normandy landings (as it appears in Saving Private Ryan), that it was the Americans and not us who cracked the Enigma code (U-571 movie), or that we'e generally evil incarnate (anything directed by Mel Gibson)! “Suffice it to say that historical dramas are almost always riddled with inaccuracies”

Jay, you preach to the converted! We in Britain aren’t very pleased to learn we played no part in the Normandy landings (as it appears in Saving Private Ryan), that it was the Americans and not us who cracked the Enigma code (U-571 movie), or that we’e generally evil incarnate (anything directed by Mel Gibson)!

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