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Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth
Another reason it's hard to write history is that the writer always knows how things turned out, and there's a huge hindsight bias. In other words a tendency to see events over time as some inevitable progression. I once had a brilliant teacher who asked, what if the 1933 German election wasn't some inevitable step in the rise of Nazism, but at the time was just the product of normal electoral forces?
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Very much agreed. This frustrates me every so slightly in so many works. 'That which happened was that which was inevitable'.
I know better than to comment on your teachers query, around an outrage mob
