NSA bosses feared releasing Gulf of Tonkin intel would draw ''uncomfortable comparisons'' with Iraq

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21. Are you Robert McKee?

Every word you wrote is absolute truth. Your outstanding post reminds me of that world famous University of Michigan grad and the Master of Story:

In 388 B.C. Plato urged the city fathers of Athens to exile all poets and storytellers. They are a threat to society, he argued. Writers deal with ideas, but not in the open rational manner of philosophers. Instead, they conceal their ideas inside the seductive emotions of art. Yet felt ideas, as Plato pointed out, are ideas nonetheless. Every effective story sends a charged idea out to us, in effect compelling the idea into us, so that we must believe. In fact, the persuasive power of a story is so great that we may believe its meaning even if we find it morally repellent. Storytellers, Plato insisted, are dangerous people. He was right.

-- "Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting." p 129-130

In a time of secret government, the truth is a dangerous thing. That is why we must speak it and write it and think it.

PS: You are most welcome, felix_numinous. Thank you for grokking and imagining what could be and may yet come to pass.