"In old Tennessee, the last century.
All...SCOPES...were fixed on legal tricks and whether or not we
should teach kids natural philosophy, despite uncomfortable verity."
Nice little pun there. (A man named John Scopes was the defendant of the legal case which they're referencing; informally known as "Scopes Monkey Trial")
But yeah, essentially stating that what is conventionally considered as immutable history is merely the story everyone at the time chose to agree, on often sacrificing truth for compromise.
"In old Tennessee, the last century. All...SCOPES...were fixed on legal tricks and whether or not we should teach kids natural philosophy, despite uncomfortable verity."
Nice little pun there. (A man named John Scopes was the defendant of the legal case which they're referencing; informally known as "Scopes Monkey Trial")
But yeah, essentially stating that what is conventionally considered as immutable history is merely the story everyone at the time chose to agree, on often sacrificing truth for compromise.