I have been told that everyone in every generation - at one time or another - believes that if s/he has not personally heard of something, then it DID NOT HAPPEN. If it , s/he would have known about it.
I was told about this attitude by a friend when teenagers in his country did not believe that people in their country has done terrible things to others and even to some of their own people. NO, they KNEW that this information was A LIE because that was NOT what they had experienced during their own lives. It is a common story in many places in the world. Certainly, it's true here in America.
Knowledge does not exist in how we decide that it happens within our sphere of learning: "I" have not heard or seen it, therefore it is not real." Life would be so boring of we were limited to the little that we voluntarily take in and are ignorant of a universe of information that radiates towards us in myriad ways.
Julia Child's work, her books, TV shows, and Paul, as her manager after his retirement, had a very positive impact on the world in many ways. Women learned what was possible for them to improve greatly on what they knew. Until then, no one taught women how to be chefs because men owned those jobs.
She was amazing, brilliant, extremely funny, and never afraid of failure, only of not trying. She loved cooking and she loved sharing her knowledge with others without any gimmicks, negative or vile behavior, etc. She was so successful that the TV Chefs who have followed have never been able to replicate her popularity on the scale that she produced in her time.
A Checkered Life speaks of myriad diverse adventures being the rewards of endless curiosity.
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