The Great Baked Bean Fiasco. Part 2. draft
The Great Baked Bean Fiasco,Or Grab you stuff we're leaving. Part 2.By Daniel J. Sherburn.20th August 2010..I believed most of whatever my father told me until I began to get the truth from my teachers, my sisters or my mum. Factually he was indeed very wrong about a lot of what he spoke. I think his education was via films and Hollywood and propaganda and post war documentaries. As I was growing up, however, he was the person I always asked for answers. Our first big argument was quite trivial: I'd stumbled over an encyclopaedia covering the history of locomotion. I suddenly realised the evolution of that industry didn't begin with the Stephenson's Rocket. Like almost anything in history there are many Proto influences on what finally becomes a symbol of revolution. A gram that throws the balance. A tipping point. The attacks on 9/11 were years in the making, not an overnight reckless act. We argued. I had seen this fact in a book, which I could never show my dad as I...