The recent US election made me think of the Old West, that idealized dream world of mostly fictional heroes and villains, memories fixed as truth by years of watching Hollywood movies. We now enter a new era, where ALL is fictional and the 'truth' delivered to us is parsed, par-boiled and plucked apart from the cold reality we knew and the warmth we hoped for. Spiro Agnew's remarks (from the Vietnam War) seem eerily appropriate for today...
