Radio Free Trumpistan on Nostr: I can't say I buy into that everything/nothing dichotomy because I've found that even ...

I can't say I buy into that everything/nothing dichotomy because I've found that even legends and fairy tales have origins in some sort of truth somewhere, so it's far more common to have partial truths in any given story. The objective is to determine which is which. It's the Turks that give Shrek his own origin story, as it happens. "Ogre" is a variant pronunciation of "Uyghur", and it WAS a fact that Turks would kidnap Christian boys, so coming up with a story that would rightfully scare the kids was actually useful for self-preservation.