Ok, another weird one. Say it’s one thousand years into the future – the year 3016. Long ago, a mass book burning happened and nuclear war or something and all technology was destroyed completely and without a trace. Earth was brought back to the Dark Ages but people still remember how to write. There were very few survivors but there were still some, at least. They banded together and decided to restart society. Say these people from a millennia before 3016 had the bright idea to preserve the world’s knowledge of history, of what came before.
However, none of these people were skilled or had any expert knowledge. So they wrote what they knew but it was limited. In fact, they outright made up some historical information to how they thought it should have turned out. Actually, they totally made up some crap just for laughs. These weren’t really the most sincere people of society. They also passed on these falsehoods to their children and future generations.
In 3016, society seems back to normal. Someone happened to come across several old preserved ‘history’ books written by the survivors from 2016. It contained false information about all our known historical figures and events. E.g. saying Abraham Lincoln invented slavery….
Assume that these future people are descended from the original survivors.
Given that the survivors passed on their false knowledge to the kids, does this mean that, with such evidence for the ‘truth’ (generational teaching and uncovered writings from the period) and lack of evidence of the actual truth, the false becomes true? Will all of this society now believe in a false history?
It’s weird to think about!
Question: Are the lies told by the survivors now history?
Comment if you read and have an answer or opinion!!
Tanthinks 