It is a complete fallacy to think you need to be somewhere to know something better than someone who wasn't. People can be right there and believe the propaganda right under their noses while people four centuries later can look at the information and work out the truth better than those who were there at the time.
It is a complete fallacy to think you need to be somewhere to know something better than someone who wasn't. People can be right there and believe the propaganda right under their noses while people four centuries later can look at the information and work out the truth better than those who were there at the time.
I was a witness to a police arrest, standing 2 metres away from the person who was arrested. It was only later when I watched this person talking on the internet that I realised she was an agent provocateur and her arrest was staged.
Working out the truth isn't about "being there" - it's about having certain required knowledge to make sense of things to be able to put the pieces together intelligently.
It is a complete fallacy to think you need to be somewhere to know something better than someone who wasn't. People can be right there and believe the propaganda right under their noses while people four centuries later can look at the information and work out the truth better than those who were there at the time.
I was a witness to a police arrest, standing 2 metres away from the person who was arrested. It was only later when I watched this person talking on the internet that I realised she was an agent provocateur and her arrest was staged.
Working out the truth isn't about "being there" - it's about having certain required knowledge to make sense of things to be able to put the pieces together intelligently.