Photographs Attract False Beliefs The Way Flypaper

People Can Burn Archives; People Can Destroy Evidence, But To Say That History Is Perishable, That Historical Evidence Is Perishable, Is Different Than Saying That History Is Subjective.

Everything Is A Reenactment. We Are Reenacting The World In The Mind. The World Is Not Inside There. It Does Not Reside In The Gray Matter Of The Brain.

The Very Idea Of Photography Is As Oliver Wendell Holmes Said In The 19th Century, "it's A Mirror With A Memory."

There Is Something About The Photographs That Is Endlessly Disturbing. The Fact That We Like To Think Of Them As Torture Actually Hides What Is Really Deeply Offensive About Them.

If You Asked Me What Makes The World Go Round, I Would Say Self-deception. Self-deception Allows Us To Create A Consistent Narrative For Ourselves That We Actually Believe. I’m Not Saying That The Truth Doesn’t Matter. It Does. But Self-deception Is How We Survive.