I don't trust anything from history. I think all of it has been rewritten many times and biases applied. Just look at the covid-19 situation. How do you imagine textbooks will teach about it in 80 years? That it was a mostly harmless virus in which the government overreacted and deadly vaccines were developed that killed millions of people or do you think it'll report the complete opposite government approved story? In time, only a handful of people will remember the truth of covid-19. Publishers won't publish the data in books because it's misinformation. Academic journals will remove anything that references a different narrative. You'll only have some .pdfs found on obscure websites in the darkweb that tell the truth and to people in 100 years from now, it'll look like some weird esoteric mythology rather than truth.

I imagine almost all of our history is similar to this. Even stuff you'd imagine no one could lie about. Moon landing? Uh huh... Steal of the presidential election? Uh huh...

I definitely think post-WWII the level of propaganda ramped up by an exponential margin though. So my general cutoff for anything for it to be somewhat accurate is pre-WWII; however, if it's too far from the past like ancient romans/greeks/mediaeval stuff, one has to wonder if these sources have been entirely fabricated perhaps recently or perhaps centuries ago and these sources are not accurate at all for what people say they are representing.

Even the bible translation in English people have are questionable. How much of that was rewritten or works people didn't agree with were destroyed never to be found again thus skewing the entire message?

Absolutely everything I read, no matter the supposed time it was written, is under scrutiny by me. If what I'm reading doesn't help to improve what I know to be best in life, then as far as I'm concerned, it is drivel.

I don't trust anything from history. I think all of it has been rewritten many times and biases applied. Just look at the covid-19 situation. How do you imagine textbooks will teach about it in 80 years? That it was a mostly harmless virus in which the government overreacted and deadly vaccines were developed that killed millions of people or do you think it'll report the complete opposite government approved story? In time, only a handful of people will remember the truth of covid-19. Publishers won't publish the data in books because it's misinformation. Academic journals will remove anything that references a different narrative. You'll only have some .pdfs found on obscure websites in the darkweb that tell the truth and to people in 100 years from now, it'll look like some weird esoteric mythology rather than truth.

I imagine almost all of our history is similar to this. Even stuff you'd imagine no one could lie about. Moon landing? Uh huh... Steal of the presidential election? Uh huh...

I definitely think post-WWII the level of propaganda ramped up by an exponential margin though. So my general cutoff for anything for it to be somewhat accurate is pre-WWII; however, if it's too far from the past like ancient romans/greeks/mediaeval stuff, one has to wonder if these sources have been entirely fabricated perhaps recently or perhaps centuries ago and these sources are not accurate at all for what people say they are representing.

Even the bible translation in English people have are questionable. How much of that was rewritten or works people didn't agree with were destroyed never to be found again thus skewing the entire message?

Absolutely everything I read, no matter the supposed time it was written, is under scrutiny by me. If what I'm reading doesn't help to improve what I know to be best in life, then as far as I'm concern, it is drivel.