Lydia has just overthrown The Tattooed Lady as my favorite Lydia but also Jim as my favorite Thorpe. Let me go on record in saying that I agree with John's POV about them. I will also write that history can not help but influence human behavior going forward, for once a thing is known it can not be unknown (unless POTUS 45 becomes our hero), but spending our environmentally limited time on re-litigating the past is unwise. Just as spending too much of it in a future, which likely doesn't exist, is unwise but it won't exist unless we do a bit of it.