You can have a bunch of facts but you need to know what to do with them

Yep, and science majors will study those fact while liberal arts majors will throw them out if they fail to re-enforce their pre-conceived opinions.

I hope you aren't living a lie

We all do, to some extent. Objectivists are more likely to admit it.


About the series of photos (check the one I posted, it is not exactly the common one from the series), Florence Owens (m. Thompson) was not homeless nor was she at the labor camp to pick beans. Her car stopped running on the highway and she turned toward the camp. The car was pushed out of the way.

She stayed about three days until the car was fixed. I believe her husband was a sawmill worker and made good money for that time.

People who wanted to exploit the photo(s) for their purposes (=use for propaganda) claimed she had just sold the tires off her car to buy food for her sick children.

She was also exploited to represent the dreadful conditions caused by the Great Depression, yet she was actually a migrant due to the Dust Bowl conditions in her native Oklahoma, not from economic fallout from the 1929 stock crash. (PS, I'm half Okie with a smidge of Cherokee, so I feel real sympathy for these people)