Fake Heroes: Ten False Icons and How they Altered the Course of History - Otto English
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From the author of Fake History, Otto English, comes a shocking yet hilarious look at ten of the greatest liars from our past, examining these previously unquestioned idols and exposing what they were trying to hide.
Was Che Guevara really a revolutionary hero?
Should Mother Teresa be honored as a saint?
Is Henry V actually England’s greatest king?
And why does JFK’s legend continue to grow?
Having exposed some of the greatest lies ever told in Fake History, journalist Otto English turns his attention to some of history’s biggest (and most beloved) figures.
Whether it’s virtuous leaders in just wars, martyrs sacrificing all for a cause, or innovators changing the world for the better, down the centuries supposedly great men and women have risen to become household names, saints and heroes. But just how deserving are they of their reputations?
Exploring everything from Captain Scott’s reckless hunt for glory and Andy Warhol’s flagrant thievery to Coco Chanel’s murky Nazi past, Otto English dives into the hidden lives of some of history’s most recognizable names. Scrutinizing figures from the worlds of art, politics, business, religion and royalty, he brings to light the murkier truths they would rather have kept buried away, at the same time as celebrating the unsung heroes lost to time.
Fake Heroes exposes the truth of the past and helps us understand why that matters today.
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This post has 33 comments with rating of 5/5
October 7th, 2023
Eminent, uh, Victors. JFK had affairs with 3 interns, codenamed ‘Fiddle,’ ‘Faddle,’ & ‘Mimi.’
Just a few days after 19-year-old Mimi Alford began her internship in the WH press office, she met JFK while taking a swim in the pool. He offered to give her a private tour of “Mrs. Kennedy’s room.” It was the start of an 18-mth affair, in which she only referred to him as “Mr. President.” Intimate.
In her memoir, Mimi writes that he dared her, successfully, into giving oral pleasure to an aide in the pool. She was 19 & he was 45.
Jackie, of course, was well aware. She once gave a tour of the WH to a Paris Match reporter and, when passing one of the girls, remarked in French, “This is the girl who supposedly is sleeping with my husband.”
Kennedy’s dad told them to get the sex over with early in the morning, in order to focus on business. JFK said he’d get a headache if he didn’t observe the morning routine. Typically, it just took him a Boston minute.
October 7th, 2023
Thanks for the upload!
October 7th, 2023
Otto English seems to be confusing the definition of “hero” with that of “saint”.
Heroes tend to be flawed characters (just like everybody else), but on occasion they rise up above their flaws to achieve greatness, be it in actual deeds or inspiring symbolism.
Of course what defines a hero is highly subjective and, especially in politics, relative. What makes Kennedy a hero is that he contrasted the cynical “politics as usual” of presidents that came before and after him.
October 7th, 2023
The holder of the office immediately prior to JFK was probably the greatest president of the century, in my view. (Of the last 150 yrs.)
October 7th, 2023
I like Thamus’ point. None of my heroes lead a perfect life, while doing their exceptional deeds. And the scales for how they are measured are apt to change with the times, I’m sorry to say.
Anyone recall the guy, who won Nobel prize for inventing frontal lobotomy?
October 7th, 2023
Hail, you fool! Eisenhower, despite being competent soldier, was quite ordinary in his office. He considered the job as a reward for his services in WW2. He was not bad, though, and way better that many current ones.
October 7th, 2023
I don’t think anyone can impugn Mother Theresa’s credentials as a saint. She was worth over $100,000 at the time of her death, and contributions from all over the world continue to roll into her foundations, even today.
There is scant sign of any of that wealth ever making it to Calcutta, in fact all of the money has disappeared, and continues to. If that isn’t a miracle, I don’t know what is.
October 7th, 2023
And of course we revere JFK because he diverted so much of the Cold War into the Space Race.
Ike’s major legacy was Richard Nixon.
October 7th, 2023
Mother teresa is a perfect example, her cult of death and sufferring, her links to Epstien, globe trotting for interviews and donations while people in her “hospices” were kept in inhuman standards. All the children that disappeared from her “schools”. History is replete with this Fake hero phenom, seems that people gobble it up and kind of need it and need to be deceived over and over forever.
October 7th, 2023
JFK was a homosexual and they used cover to parade him as a womanizer, its pretty common to project one extreme to cover the other. His “buddy” lived with him in the white house, it even mentions it on wikipedia making it extremely public.
October 7th, 2023
It’s only luck that Eisenhower didn’t obliterate the planet, leave aside near breaking post-war us-jp relations with his thoughtlessness.
October 7th, 2023
Is it too much to hope for a chapter on Spiderman?
October 8th, 2023
Well, as the historically literate are all too aware, the Space Race was actually another theatre of the Cold War. Eisenhower warned about the expanding threat of that Cold War.
He also didn’t want Nixon on the ticket, but democratic systems are not dictatorships.
He blocked isolationist policies; during the Suez Crisis of 1956, he condemned the British, Israeli, & French invasion of Egypt, & he forced them to withdraw (Brutish imperialists (above) hate him for that). He expanded Social Security; opposed McCarthyism; signed the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and sent Army troops to enforce federal court orders which integrated schools in Little Rock, Arkansas. His administration undertook development & construction of the Interstate Highway System, which remains the largest construction of roadways in US history. In 1957, following the Soviet launch of Sputnik, he led the American response incl the creation of NASA & the establishment of a stronger, science-based education via the National Defense Education Act. His 2 terms saw unprecedented economic prosperity.
Truly loony hate for Mother Teresa in the foregoing (revealed in the orthography).
Navin B. Chawla observes of critics of Mother Teresa, “Those who are quick to criticise Mother Teresa & her mission, are unable or unwilling to do anything to help with their own hands.” Similarly, Sister Mary Prema Pierick, the former Superior General of the Missionaries of Charity, also stated that Mother Teresa’s homes were never intended to be a substitute for hospitals, but rather “homes for those not accepted in the hospital… But if they need hospital care, then we have to take them to the hospital, and we do that.”
Mother Teresa founded Missionaries of Charity, a religious congregation, which grew to have over 4,500 nuns across 133 countries, operating 610 missions. The congregation manages homes for people who are dying of HIV/AIDS, leprosy, & tuberculosis. The congregation also runs soup kitchens, dispensaries, mobile clinics, children’s and family counselling programmes, as well as hospices, orphanages & schools. Members vow to give “wholehearted free service to the poorest of the poor.” The Missionaries of Charity were aided by co-workers numbering over one million.
October 8th, 2023
Hail, illodiini. Best of luck in your quest to track down your frontal lobotomy guy, & finally enact vengeance.
October 8th, 2023
I know of course who invented the lobotomy, because I can use google.
My point is that yesterday’s heroes don’t necessarily remain as such. Mother Teresa was generally a nasty and judgemental old biddy. She did a world of good but there is that, y’know, old time religion.
October 8th, 2023
Yeah, I’ll take a religious framework of values - universal love, charity & forgiveness - over the anti-theist ideologies of forced famines, state slavery, concentration camps - that new time genocide.
No charity in any of that evil muck, illodiini, ol’ pal.
Incidentally, with that crack @ the Nobel Committee, I think you’re just getting at your Norwegian neighbours.
October 8th, 2023
Thanks a lot! :)
October 8th, 2023
You know, I’m considering an idea that without religion(s) we as a human race would have develop a real and beneficial political system by now. But the power hungry superstitious cabals had already take the market and that meant those not into “god” had to play by their rules to win. So now we have like communism and other -isms that rule every little bit of our life if we let them. Or superstition. Nowhere to run. Thanks religion.
October 8th, 2023
Or how about a system where nobody ever tried to do any good at all, or to help their neighbour; a Hobbesian state of nature - a “war of all against all” - without any of your hated religious compassion or charity. And without any objective basis upon which to build your proposed Utopia. Just as likely. And you know what happens to utopias, don’t you? Orwell’s image of “a boot stamping on a human face forever.”
October 8th, 2023
Like a wise man once said : a man without religion is like a fish without a bicycle.
You really think there’s some big spirit guiding us? if so, it’s doing a terrible job.
October 9th, 2023
I observe contingent things, so derive necessary being, yeah. You don’t? This ought to make you greater than your non-rational fish.
You’ve got your free will, don’t you? In terms of guidance - you always choose.
Or your cat.
October 9th, 2023
How would you know my cat’s thought processes? I don’t. For all I know she’s much deeper thinker than either of us. You give too much credit to this vermin species we choose to call human. Or the rules we have made up to feel superior. And an elaborate belief system is still just superstition. Wakey, wakey.
October 9th, 2023
Descartes had a poor view of cats. Thought they were mere automata, operating on instinct. I reckon he was seriously underestimating our feline friends; they know very well what’s going on most of the time. A bit on the selfish side, however.
Descartes died in Stockholm (one of those ridiculously cold places no one can really live in). He was tutoring the princess, I think, & he was consequently required to get up much earlier than he was accustomed to (typical philosopher). The speculation is that it was having to get up early that actually killed him. The lazy cat-hating clown.
I very much doubt that you live your life, conduct yourself socially, & manage your personal relationships on the dubious principle that dignified, rights-bearing human beings are all “vermin.” Come on, now. That’s just being dramatic & edgy.
Your own belief system (or lack thereof) cannot account for, or ground, objective values, necessary causation or free will. It’s utterly incoherent & contradictory, but you choose (freely!) to project your incoherence onto others.
Discuss.
October 9th, 2023
But your language skills are excellent.
October 9th, 2023
I meant to say also that, when I was a teenage atheist (or anti-theist, more accurately) I expressed precisely the same negative, hostile view of humanity as you do. I couldn’t see any good anywhere.
This does reveal atheist materialism as an extreme, hateful view of human beings & approach to existence. Apart from all the philosophical arguments I would be inclined to make, it’s really just an enormously depressing & destructive way to live. Destructive of the self. If it’s that harmful, it doesn’t strike me as being good or true.
October 9th, 2023
Well, while not channeling Una-bomber, I’m quite disappointed at the people of the Earth (Yes, I’m one!). Climate change alone will wipe most of us under hundred years. And we bicker about some smallish land masses and political systems. Where is your damn heavenly father? And why would we need him for anything? We can provide apocalypse easily ourselves!
Douglas Adams (who described himself as “radical atheist”)put in one of his H2G2 book the god’s last message to people, which goes:“We apologise for the inconvenience.”
October 9th, 2023
That should have been “wipe out”, but I’m sure you got the drift.
October 9th, 2023
I do, but all of that awful stuff is a result of what some - not all - have willed; and a fair degree of negligence & stupidity thrown in for good measure.
Yeah, Adams was funny.
I don’t think there’ll be any apocalypse. However, there might be inconvenience. Major population centres, such as China, India, the US, & Europe, will all experience significant population reduction over the next few decades. This will result in a large decline in consumption.
But there are poor areas of the world that just don’t want to remain poor. They want to industrialise. So that’s a very real factor. What’s required are technological fixes, because it’s just not credible that such disparate parties will agree on a strategy - no matter what Greta Thornbird says.
It’s that thing again, you know, the Tragedy of the Commons? They used to be always talking about it in law lectures. Just writ very large this time.
I didn’t know you were the Helsinki Una-bomber. That’s the Finnish of it. You’ll be throwing snow bombs all over the shop.
October 10th, 2023
Sorry, caesar. I tend to agree with you mostly, but Ike was not a “great president.” He knew the USSR had shot down a U2, then went on national TV to claim no such plane even existed, much less that it had been brought down by the Soviets. He accepted the military’s assurances that the U2 flew far too high for the Soviets to shoot down. Enter the biggest pre-Nixon presidential scandal. He was made a fool publicly and never quite recovered. His farewell address was purely inspired, no doubt. Now, having completely ignored it, we are paying the price.
My vote is for the admittedly flawed, but truly progressive, Teddy Roosevelt. Patton was right about Ike- he was a talented organizer, but not the kind of leader the war required.
Not entirely my “hero,” but certainly a better president than Ike.
October 11th, 2023
Hey PP - Well, flaws are universal, but Ike’s were scarcely worse than all the other incumbents. What the war required at that level was a skilled organiser, which certainly Eisenhower was; & he seemed to do pretty well in that role. Remember that the kind of war leader George Patton wanted was someone like himself - a hawk prepared to continue the war (with exhausted troops) against enormous Soviet forces.
Both Roosevelts loom very large, without a doubt.
However, Ike’s record, as outlined, is genuinely impressive.
October 13th, 2023
Thank you! :)
October 17th, 2023
I love the joyous altercations of caesar & illodiini. :)
October 31st, 2023
Another Commie masquerading as a nuanced writer
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