Consider that as we become more and more dependent upon information storage and the technology that supports it, we are also more vulnerable to it's being re-written and fictionalized in a subtle but retroactive program of fictionalizing history... this is done through very gradual and subtle changes or "interpretations" that are incorporated into each new "update" of the official version of events. After many such instances, and over a long period of time, we end up with a tale of events that is very far removed from the original source.
In other cases, it may even be a case of pure fiction... what is sometimes known as "phantom history" in which events are not recorded or deliberately altered in the official record. These are then passed down through history and taken as actual historical events. As far as I know, this is a theory, and I'm not aware of any proven cases of this.
Or, perhaps it's always been the case... an ancient strategy, with all previous cultures practicing their own form of making up their history on stone tablets and scrolls which have now form most of what we "know" about them, even if untrue!
Anyone who has read Orwell's 1984 will know what I mean when we see special interest groups trying and succeeding in making any alternative view of history (other than the officially approved story) an outright crime!
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