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rhysintherain · 10 months

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My favorite kind of historians are the ones who say "oh, they can't be blamed for not knowing this sort of thing had happened before in other parts of the country. They were illiterate and isolated, so we shouldn't be surprised when they explained things through magic and superstition."

And then, when asked how we know what happened, goes "we know because it was all written down."

Yeah? By who? The superstitious illiterates?

This was less than 500 years ago. The things he's talking about were reported in newspapers.

And this guy's trying to tell us that all the locals knew about wildlife and predator behavior came from folklore and superstition? Get bent.

#and nobody ever left to live in a town 20 miles away #and nobody remembered the events that terrified the neighbors 50 years before #and everyone stayed in their tiny little hamlets and travelling salesman definitely didn't share news from everywhere they'd been #with anyone who'd listen #the end #because the people who herd sheep beside the wolf forest really dont know anything about wolves #and all our ancestors were idiots but apparently you are very smart somehow #maybe it was a big weird fucked up wolf did you ever think of that?#maybe they knew how many people were supposed to get eaten in a year and this is not that #maybe they knew things about their ecosystem and what was going on in it that you can't see in the articles #and maybe the newspapers made up a scary monster because it sold and the townspeople just rolled their eyesand built fences #because they knew what a wolf was and how to stop it

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