Waiting for history to vindicate us is usually a losing strategy. If we fail to persuade people in the moment, the fault is ours, not theirs. It reminds me of

Waiting for history to vindicate us is usually a losing strategy. If we fail to persuade people in the moment, the fault is ours, not theirs. It reminds me of Ancient Greece and the Sophists: they mastered persuasion as an art at the expense of reason, logic, and truth.