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Prescient
And, above all, since the legend came from their heroes, they were not only entitled to believe it, they were unpatriotic if they didn’t.
That’s from Walter Lippmann’s famous work Public Opinion, published in 1920. It is a fantastic work, of which I will undoubtedly share more from. Reading this passage, I got a chill, though. My mind immediately jumped to Pat Tillman, but this could describe so much about how Americans (and all people) relate to the world around them, it’s mildly terrifying.
