History is simplified in order to assign blame and credit.
This looks like a common special case of “History is simplified to form a more coherent narrative”, which I’m guessing has a lot to do with hindsight bias. Actually “learning from history” is probably a lot harder than it’s made out to be.
This looks like a common special case of “History is simplified to form a more coherent narrative”, which I’m guessing has a lot to do with hindsight bias. Actually “learning from history” is probably a lot harder than it’s made out to be.