Heroes And Villains: Our Neverending Efforts at Finding The Truth

 January 22, 2025

  If you live long enough, as I have, you start to notice that the heroes of one era—Davy, Davy Crockett king of the wild frontier!—can teeter, or even be toppled, with newly discovered truths, or, more accurately, inconvenient truths that were swept under the rug in the previous telling of the tale. That is the overarching theme of our next couple of issues. It's all moving and chaotic and sometimes the more we know, the less we seem to understand. It's our job, at True West magazine to help you see through the fog. . .

   Or, as our contributing editor, and my favorite Punk Pastor Mark Boardman, puts it, "I like the punk band The Stranglers' take on things.  'Whatever happened to all the heroes.  All the Shakespearoes.  They watched their Rome burn.  No more heroes anymore...'" 

   Meanwhile, here is a sneak peek at a new poster Dan The Man and I have just created:

A big, 13"X 19" Triple B Poster

for your wall

   Success is resting on a rotisserie. It's all turning, even as you read this. So enjoy this temporary evaluation of the truth, as we see it today from our humble observation perch on the stormy decks of history.

"Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity."

—Carol Sagan