It's really excruciating when ppl pretend like King Arthur is the origin of liberal democracy or something
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Like trying to make the Golden Age of Baseball be about America's innocence or whatever
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Kinda like Robin Hood, it being based on a slightly true story tends to hobble attempts to be creative with genre
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Well, King Arthur got popular from Geoffrey of Monmouth, who wrote an elaborate fake history where he conquered much of Europe
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Shrug, the Christianized English choosing to identify with the Romano-Britons more than the Saxons isn't that weird
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In any case people revering a defeated foe and IDing with them after the fact is fairly common
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I mean no one from any time was a choirboy, even Field of Dreams is actually about how they weren't
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FoD's thesis that Shoeless Joe Jackson deserved the chance at some kind of spiritual redemption teetered on the edge of self parody
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"If you charge them admission to line up and kick me in the balls, they will come"
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