You Are Who You Think You Ain't

In 1969, I was a 21 year old Marine Corps Sergeant stationed at the Camp Pendleton Brig. There was a rock ‘n roll radio station in Los Angeles I listened to. I have forgotten its call letters.

The Ralph Williams Ford auto dealership in Los Angeles ran an advertisement on the radio station aimed at the counter culture person who was looking to buy a Ford. I remember the last sentence of the advertisement as saying, “you are who you think you ain’t.”

In the movie “Lawrence of Arabia”, Lawrence crosses the Sinai Desert and arrives at the Suez Canal. A soldier riding a motorcycle along the canal on the other side from Lawrence stops and shouts at him, “who are you?”

Mortimer Adler said, "philosophy is everybody's business." Hmmmm?