Seems to me that the relation to your original question “why don’t we attribute historial events to the intelligence of their actors” is that by this logic, historians of the future might conclude that Dominic Cummings was retarded. (Assuming the records of his writing would be lost.) If this logic doesn’t work reliably now, it was probably not more reliable in the past.
Seems to me that the relation to your original question “why don’t we attribute historial events to the intelligence of their actors” is that by this logic, historians of the future might conclude that Dominic Cummings was retarded. (Assuming the records of his writing would be lost.) If this logic doesn’t work reliably now, it was probably not more reliable in the past.