Take up some ancient history, then. Pretty sure we know more about the Nazis than the ancient Sumatrans.
No, no, what I mean is that we have a great deal of knowledge available about WW2, but very few people actually understand the time period very well. Its not just about the Nazis though; for example, take Pearl Harbour.
A lot of current accounts about Pearl Harbour that are meant for popular consumption such as video games, movies, high school history texts, & TV documentaries can give you details about what happened during the battle down to the smallest detail,
but they never seem to find time to explain the rationale behind why Japan attacked (Oil/Materials Embargo by the States, conflict over economic influence in China, etc). Of course, for decades few people in Western society ever questioned that portrayal of the attack because that's how they remembered it: raw, shocking, & seemingly irrational.
What I find extremely concerning about that view is that it reinforces the attitude that America needs to be paranoid about the world beyond its borders. Not properly listing the real reasons behind why Japan started the war implies that the Japanese attacked for the heck of it, & that the rest of the world might be about to do so any time too. Casting the rest of the world as irrational can be a very dangerous mindset to develop.
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Until you open the post, the content is both alive and dead (Schroedinger's Post).
What would happen if Schroedinger's Cat would meet Schroedinger's Post?
We'd then have to consider drafting Schroedinger's Clause...... get it.......? Clause? Cat.....Post........Clause.....?
Meh, lets just perform the experiment already. :lol: