i'm really not sure how to approach this...

[acroyear]

its just totally unexpected when in one day everything we knew about a particular event in history is totally changed.  all the guesswork, all the suspicion, all the theories, all...over.

i don't think i mind, but its still an odd feeling.

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[celtink.livejournal.com]

Are you talking about the 91 year old guy in CA who says he is who blew open Watergate?

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

yeah, only keep reading the news. Woodward, Bernstein, and Bradlee have all corroborated his claim.

[thatwasjen]

Felt wasn't on your list of possibilities? Or do you just miss the mystery?

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

when things get resolved while there was an expectation it would never be resolved. kinda like the berlin wall, one of those things that was supposed to remain constant, yet even that can't stay that way.

sci-fi writers love that sort of idea. they create worlds that can have wars lasting a thousand years, or planets so stable that evolution hasn't created (or destroyed) a species for millions, and use that as a way of perhaps asserting that earth is different, that we're different, that our constant state of flux and "progress" is somehow unusual in the universe.

i don't buy it, but its a neat idea to think about.

yet our reality, that nothing is constant, once again gets in the way...

[thatwasjen]

I guess I see what you mean. It's like when you get up a lot of adrenaline for a major event and you don't know how to blow off all that built-up steam.

I'm sort of bemused by the fact that the general blogosphere reaction to this revelation has been disappointment.