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Originally Posted by JohnnyClips
Why would anyone believe anything that an authority figures says? They don't care about me or you if you haven't figured that out by now and they have an aura of shadiness around them
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Johnny I have told you this before, I hope you take some notice this time.
History is not written by authority figures. If you had ever studied anything at a serious level you would know this.
There might be an official version released at the time, but this is revised as historians look into the events with the benefit of hindsight and by using the benefit of the passage of time. A historian looks at all the available evidence, not just the official version of events. They then try to dicipher, through the fog of vested interests and partial truths, what actually happened, not what an official account stated, but what actually happened, why it happened, and why certain figures reported events in the way they did.
