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Originally Posted by Oski
why?
Is it because what the general public knows about a certain subject is hard to determine; or
Is it because, as part of your education, you have learned (or have learned how to determine) the average person's expected knowledge of history?
I just think most people don't care about history much, so the stories they retain are very high level.
I mean, I tried out for jeopardy once and watch documentaries for kicks and read about 4th century christian heresies for fun when I can't sleep. It works for me, but my brain loves this ****, and my pursuit of this as an intellectual hobby over the last couple decades mean I can put things in context for myself pretty easily.
Once high school fades for people, that's just not typically the case unless you like that thing. You forget things and confuse things and that's all right, because this **** is legitimately confusing.
Stepping back even as recent as WWI is just baffling. So, Italy and Japan were on our side? And American troops fought in Russia? And Germany sent Lenin to Russia? And the Czar and the Kaiser and the King of England were all cousins? And the German armed forces surrendered on the brink of collapse, convincing a lot of Germans that they could have won if it weren't for the socialists and the jews? And no one learned any lessons about rifles and defensive fortifications from the American Civil War?