Let’s go back to the 1600’s. Stuff happened. How do we know this stuff happened – the way people dressed, ate, acted? Is it a collective of surviving evidence gathered from the time? How do we know that written statements from the time period weren’t bullshit? Do we just agree that we can form a general picture of what happened in the past from the surviving evidence?
(1600s used as an example, this applies to general history. I assume things get more questionable the further you go back)
Thank you for indulging a historically-challenged idiot who’s had a few whiskeys.
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Read War and Peace by Tolstoy. It’s basically a treatise on how history can never be truly accurate because it is written by the victors, doesn’t take into account different perspectives (i.e., a peasant vs. a lord), and a lot of other reasons. There is also a story in there somewhere.
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