What takes imagination are the excuses to explain the various paradoxes you are required to believe to accept the official narrative."
The "emperor's new clothes" are DiogenesLamp's new mythological narratives for the Civil War, abandoning all connections to historical documents & reasons.
By the way, I've correctly accused DiogenesLamp of a Marxist dialectical outlook, but closer inspection reveals that's too broad a brush.
Marxist dialectics in DiogenesLamp's mind only applies to one group of people, Unionists, especially that devil Lincoln.
Confederates by stark contrast in DiogenesLamp's imagination were only driven by the purest & highest of our Founders' enlightened ideals -- freedom, justice, independence, manliness... that sort of thing.
And how does DiogenesLamp respond when confronted with Confederate materialism, for example:
- "Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world.
Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth."
--Mississippi Reasons for Secession, January 1861
He doesn't, has no interest in Confederate dialectical materialism, only in the wickedness of Abe Lincoln's Unionists.
As for alleged "official narrative", we should note there have been about 15,000 books written on Lincoln (about 100 per year on average), more than on any other individual in history except Jesus Christ Himself.
On the whole Civil War, the Library of Congress reports about 75,000 or 500 per year on average.
And how many of those books has DiogenesLamp read?
Not one -- zero, zip, nada books -- and yet he will impose his own fanciful narrative over the works of tens of thousands of authors (some admittedly more serious than others).
Below: The tower of Lincoln's books at Ford's Theater, 8 feet in diameter, 34 feet high, representing about half of the 15,000 total Lincoln books published to date: