• xantoxis@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Yeah I actually think this is literally why. As a species we can write things down all we want but we struggle to truly understand things we didn’t experience.

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      10 months ago

      Even our living memory fades fairly fast. Maybe, at best, a couple years before people can be convinced the past is different than it actually was.