Here's my story (and I'm sticking to it). S.J. Chapman is The Man. Knighted in 1920, Principal Secretary to the UK Board of Trade 1920-1927, Chief Economic Advisor to the UK govt. 1927-1932. Neither a kook nor a raving radical.
The "story" is the primal game of fort/da -- now you see it... now you don't -- animated by a pop-up card of Chapman ducking his head behind a sandwichboard emblazoned with the graph from his 1909 article on the "Hours of Labour" and the motto "Reasonable Hours - Sustainable Times".
I'm producing a small multiple of the card for an election forum we're hosting this Wednesday in Vancouver.
The Sandwichman
Eugene Coyle <eugenecoyle@xxxxxxx> wrote:
I recall
the Sandwichman being very good on this point a while back. He pointed out that "their" story is so deeply entrenched that any challenge to it is treated as coming from a crank. That someone telling an alternate story to, say, a journalist or legislator, must first give a complicated explanation of esoteric material, and then convince the sceptic that the new story is a better one. I've been facing this problem for years, with minimal success. I think nevertheless that this is our job.
Someone like Murtha can get traction with a new story -- but even he gets Swift-boated.