There were times of legends, held in papyrus, clay or parchment but mostly in memories. The legends were based in real events sprinkled with magic to appeal to the listener and their aims. They could give lessons [fables], explain nature and support the tribal coherence and morals [perseverance]. Memory of a story teller could hold amounts of today's bookcases. Some old stories are quite loose, some very detailed as precise recollection, yet no one would accuse them of being truth = exact recordings... the details omitted or added were at the discretion of the authors and the retellers; i.e. of their biases or intentions = their self deception [we can see only what we know] and memories [remembering is creative re-imagination] and cheating [intentional fraud subtly adding importance to the creative truth-benders].
Until there were means of mass recording one could not be too sure what and how happened. All tell story to add their perspectives, omitting and creating=lying. Land ownership, wars and competition made people care for their stories, destroying the non-compliant evidence. Thus there was probably a truth-bender trade of injecting buyers' importance to the stories told. However the letterpress invention = cheaper book copies made the history more and more verifiable through finding common intersections of various writings. Later on, the video evidence narrowed the truth to just one recording camera. Now we have a new truth, unlike the previous truth. We again cannot trust not even the video recordings: programmed AI can create fake video speeches that are just plain real. Or close-real, as nothing is real in the post-truth times. At least we could believe most of the 'history' of last 400 hundred years, can't we? We all remember seeing the 3 skyscrapers [twins + building 7 WTC of 49 floors] coming down in a demolition fashion on the 9/11 as first skyscrapers' live demolition by terrorism or fire or greedy owners. Can history teach us something? Not really. 1stly the devil and god are in the details and the shadow figures, collective will and karma are working behind the scenes, avoiding being recognised and/or recorded, 2ndly we have no clue what matters and what causes what [look at economics theories] 3rdly we see things through emotional lenses of our cultural background stories, unable to perceive new, rare and downplaying opposing stories. 4thly the world is changing faster and faster and the most of nowadays circumstances and things has 'never-before' qualities. So why so many are defined by history? Being proud of someone's false memories and half-truths? The guy who slew the dragon was my dear leader. On a personal level one needs to lean onto something.... [assumption] or rather be safe and comfortable. If not barking the same melody, one is at risk of being scolded or killed. Many nations and religions invest in creation of their stories. The kids are taught to follow the authority. To ask: who would I be without my nation's [surely proud] history / my bestest cultural heritage is like an apostasy.... death penalty, anyone? Luckily the history was good ... even the 9/11 collapse was good for most of the millennials [born after 2002] since without it they would not exist... their father, not only would not impregnate their mother on the same sperm day, but often would not even meet her. So thank you mami, pappi as well as all the history [causality mesh] through volcanoes, apes, immaculate conception, Genghis Khans, Lincoln, Stalin and pals etc for so far pleasantish existence. .. I wonder if we will ever be able to bend time to find out how random this mesh of causality is. Hindsight may suggest all was inevitable but I believe many forks had been decided by a pure chance of 50.00000000000000000000000000001% further on one side than on the other in the particular cause-time, much randomer than a winner sperm..
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