"All nations live by myths. That is, they paint a picture of the past that satisfies their present needs, but does violence to the historic record. Some myths are beneficial. They are those that strengthen a nation's confidence in having been, and being able to do what the tasks of the moment demand of it. The distorting remembrance of great feasts, tribulations, and successes is of this kind.
Other myths are pernicious. They draw from a distorted reality lessons for the understanding of the past and the charting of future action which please collective emotions but lead judgement and action astray. They are a spell which the past casts upon the future, a curse with which the dead threaten the living."1
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