Inheriting wind

To build knowledge, we tend to revisit what we already know and add or subtract from the first impression picture that we are delivered. You control what they think when they see you coming, but people from your own home area always see you as you were and do not necessarily see the changes as you change.
Ideas must be let go, then returned to and updated upon. But instead of reading a new POV article fresh and altering a distant memory, perhaps poke back into the recesses of your mind before reading and summarize some positions remembered to establish a frame of reference before diving into the new information is in order.
Take stock of what you know of the historical topic that comes in a fresh headline. The other day, i read an article on the Scopes Monkey trial. What did i know before - contoversial decision that propelled Darwinism into a public school biology concept against the will of religious people everywhere. This being the third or forth take on the event, i was major right - except i missed the interplay between Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan was altered after the fact by the death of Bryan five days later and the non-defense in spin of the religious position in the public discourse of the times.
I also didn't know that Scopes was a set-up - rammed to trial off-season to be the first politically in a different field of endeavor. Of course, if i really wanted a complete assessment, i now have access to original transcripts. Filterless spin (as long as Rosemary Woods wasn't the recorder).