what happens when people only know history through creative work and not facts?

Question

what happens when people only know history through creative work and not facts?

Answer 1

~By (small) way of example:

George H. Bush is able to obtain a 98% approval for an illegal, immoral and unjustified invasion of Afghanistan and then follow up by doing the same in Iraq. Then he is able to con the ignorant into believing that such wars can be won. Then, when the lessons of history prevail and the true depth and breadth of his folly becomes obvious even to the blind, he and his cronies on each side of the aisle are able to convince people that it is right and moral to simply walk away and turn our backs on the abysmal mess we created - and to ignore the fact that after we do and the real fighting starts, we will have no recourse but to return. {As an aside: I said the invasions were doomed to failure before the first bombs fell, based on the history of the region. I only hope my reading of history is wrong as to what will happen if we pull out.}

Or, you might believe that the Normandy Invasion was a significantly major battle in WWII, or that the US played a significant role in the defeat of the Nazis or that the Wehrmacht was defeated at Stalingrad by the Russian winter instead of by superior Soviet troops, Soviet arms, Soviet tactics and Soviet resolve. Or that JFK was the hero of the Cuban Missile Crisis when, in fact, it was he who caused the incident in the first place by putting US missiles in Turkey and aimed them at Moscow and the crisis was resolved when Nikita Khrushchev agreed to immediately and publicly remove the missiles from Cuba on the condition that the US, within 6 months, quietly remove its nukes from Turkey. Or the Hitler, Himmler, Goering and Heydrich came up with the idea of genocide and concentration camps and that they didn't steal those ideas from the US Bureau of Indian Affairs and the name from the British of the Boer Wars. Or the Abe Lincoln disapproved of slavery or that the US Civil War had anything whatsoever to do with the abolition of slavery.

You basically have two options: either learn history from reliable sources and original materials or be ignorant and get used to being duped and led by the nose by those with an agenda who will distort the facts to suit their fancies and ends.

Answer 2

confusion

Answer 3

U SCREW UP STUPID!