Sometimes they’re right though.
Of course not if it’s a verifiable fact, but as I’ve grown older, I have seen plenty of historical “facts” getting proven to be wrong. All it takes is for a young mind to challenge the existing views.
Having an open mind is more important than being right. Most inventions happen by accident while pursuing something else, something wrong.
Its also our opinions are shaped generally by news cycles. Republicans seem to memory hole stuff like january 6th by repeatedly painting over bits of it over time.
But there’s also instances where the initial cycle paints an incorrect picture. If you want examples on this see just about every episode of the dollop, particularly “africanized honey bees”
“Serendippity-doobee-doo” - Frank Sinatra /s
On the other hand, my dad’s final response to criticism of Apartheid was “you weren’t there”.
No, but the whole rest of the world at the time* didn’t like it either!
*except Israel, as it so happens
Reagan liked apartheid (as I remember)
Had this happen the other day trying to describe why we believed blatant lies about video games like the rumors about being able to see Samus completely nude in Metroid.
Like, kid… I was there. I know what I am talking about. You didn’t have wikis or youtube or Reddit to go and ask “hey, how do I see naked Samus?” You just heard your cousin say “you can see samus naked at the end of Metroid if you beat it fast enough” and so you keep speedrunning the game never seeing her naked thinking you just need to go faster.
I’m sixty and haven’t had this yet. But, then, I don’t talk to anyone, either, so…
I just want to say that I appreciate that this was de-zittered to be posted here.
Does it count if it was 2020 and the person is also your age? I feel like a LOT of people have a weirdly revisionist memory of the first few months of the pandemic.
It’s not the first few months of the pandemic anymore?
What year is it?
