The older I get, the more obvious it becomes my brain is dimmer and dimmer. I always thought I was pretty intelligent (the only thing that could possibly back up this assumption is a pretty reasonable school, graduate and post-graduate academic history) but I'm now seriously reconsidering even this assumption. I know I'm weird, but as time goes by I am getting more and more interested in documentary type shows, movies etc. In terms of events that actually happened during my mid-late teens, the striking thing is there are so many things I either had totally misinterpreted at the time, ignored completely or even remembered totally differently.

Now I know fully well that all documentaries will be biased to some extent (either deliberately or subconsciously or both), but I was just amazed at the difference in my recollection of the events at the 1972 Munich Olympics and a show I only just finished watching called "One Day in September". It's almost as if they were talking about something else.

I do NOT want to start a political slanging match, or a flame war, and I realise there may well be some heightened sensitivities to this issue with current events in the Middle East. It is only that this documentary so starkly highlighted the gulf between from my previous "understanding" and what is likely to be "some sort of reality".

Over recent months, others of a similar vintage that have had some surprises for me have been the Watergate/Nixon/Deep-throat affair and Robert Kennedy's assassination (I was a bit too young to remember much of the JFK one).

But then again, maybe I'm just showing early signs of Alzheimer's.

Cheers
Phillip