Believe Half Of What You See
May. 6th, 2021 11:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cutekittenhttps://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/shipwreck-reveals-surprising-racial-diversity-henry-viii-s-england-n1266366
Our moral and intellectual betters take the fun out of everything! As recently as 5 years ago, this article would have sent me off on a happy search for more info on that African guy in medieval England. Who was he? How’d he get to England? WHY did he go to England? Did he bring his family along? And so on. I’d not only have had fun, I might have got rich. James Clavell did off the similar story of Will Adams.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Adams_(pilot)
But today? Meh. I can’t help but wonder if the Woke are making the guy up. I could still get rich, of course, and may—this guy, if he existed, is tugging at my mind—but I won’t have nearly as much fun as I would have.
Our moral and intellectual betters take the fun out of everything! As recently as 5 years ago, this article would have sent me off on a happy search for more info on that African guy in medieval England. Who was he? How’d he get to England? WHY did he go to England? Did he bring his family along? And so on. I’d not only have had fun, I might have got rich. James Clavell did off the similar story of Will Adams.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Adams_(pilot)
But today? Meh. I can’t help but wonder if the Woke are making the guy up. I could still get rich, of course, and may—this guy, if he existed, is tugging at my mind—but I won’t have nearly as much fun as I would have.
