Run a history blog on the internet and you will get folks very eager to share what they 'know' in the comments but typically in the form of uncited information half-remembered and already very simplified, but then generalized out beyond its particulars, if it ever had any.
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Or Thucydides: "The way most men deal with traditions, even of their own country, is to receive them all alike as given, without applying any test at all...so little pains do the people take in the investigation of truth, accepting readily the first story that comes to hand."
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(Thuc. 1.20.1-3; that ellipsis elides out his concrete example of the Athenians getting their own history wrong.) Because of course Thucydides said it first.
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Honestly, I suspect it's the same in every profession. Whether you're a lawyer or an automotive mechanic or a doctor, you probably have to deal with people who've never bothered to learn about your job, but are absolutely convinced they have a Big Insight.
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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Bottom line is, if you find yourself thinking "Why, all these people who have been Doing The Thing for decades or centuries have missed this detail that I, a clever lay-person, noticed easily" - yeah, you're probably wrong.
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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