Unfamiliar factions
I remember when the answer to many questions could be found in a comic book. The ones that come in at 12 cents and ended up in stacks and boxes under all of my friends beds. If you were willing to spend some time rooting around you could learn a lot. One series that should have received more attention were the classics where we learned about real things and real places in real people. This afternoon I have been trying to wrap my head around something known as the Spanish Civil War which seems to have caused a lot of stir in Europe back before the Second World War. Same players in many cases. Now, we depend a lot on the team names to figure out what is going on and so that was the approach I used while learning about this conflict. I am actually more confused than ever because the good guys the bad guys did not use the same names we would have today. What I took away from it was that this war was a way of resolving many older conflicts while wrapped in flags. And that the eventual winner hung on to his flag for another 4 decades also makes it hard to figure out what they were actually doing. I had grown up believing that a war would last for three or four years, not 30 or 40. My bad. The lessons were there in history books or those comics. I have not seen a classic comic in decades. They must still exist because people did not throw such things away. Somewhere under a bed there are still boxes filled with the jewels of history. Not at my house. My children never got into that little rabbit hole. At least, as far as I know. I must ask them where they learned their versions of world history. Maybe, like me they simply moved on and went straight to the Internet rather than making micro payments of $0.12 a week or month. In passing that was a reasonable price for people who got their salary by collecting empty pop bottles. A dollar went a long way.
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