To add on: this is how history has mostly always been transmitted to the masses. Plays and ballads and folk tales and other entertainment. History as serious study has normally been an elitist (I mean that descriptively, not pejoratively) pursuit.

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SoftTalker 11 hours ago | parent [-]

And even then, everyone else is pretty much just stuck with wondering who to believe. Nobody has time to do their own research to that depth, and nobody is around to give any first-hand accounts. Everything we know about the past is a story told from a partiular point of view, supported by cherry-picked artifacts, with varying agendas behind it.

	▲	bluGill 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Things are not quite that bad - one of the major reasons we studied history over the centuries is we are looking for a way to ensure we will win the next war before the fighting starts. Thus there are a large group of military minded people (both generals and kings) who have incentive to find real truths not the nice folk fiction. Mostly things are bad, but if you look there are people who did care about the truth - though they only cared about their little niche - everything else they could say whatever was entertaining.