[ SECRET POST #6175 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6175 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I can see that for some sci-fi but not any of the fantasy I’ve ever read. And even in sci-fi two hundred years is a very short time and it’s unbelievable that they’d have technology to record events but…just didn’t. As a reader, I need the author to show me why I should believe that.

[(Anonymous)]

I mean we have the technology to record events, and also just... don't, a lot.

A bunch of stuff does get recorded but why would we record everything, especially if nothing special was supposed to happen that day? Lots of world-changing events are surprises and people just don't have cameras rolling at the time because why would they? Then we have to rely on sending out calls for anybody who happened to be filming during The Event then news channels are stuck with bits and pieces of scattered footage, etc.

It's realistic because it's akin to real life?

[(Anonymous)]

Do not try to recall The Event.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X888i7hzvP0

[(Anonymous)]

Like another anon said, we often decline to record events, despite having the capacity to do so.

But beyond that, there are times when we record events, and then suppress the records. My sister-in-law, who grew up in China, did not know what happened at Tiananmen Square in 1989 until she left the country. We had the technology to record what happened; in fact, we did record what happened. The Chinese government just does what it can to keep its own people from accessing those records.

From that, I would argue that although advanced tech can enhance the ability to record events, it can also enhance the ability to suppress and/or alter them. Consider AI, and deepfakes. Can we really guarantee that people 100 years from now will have access to accurate records about what's going on today, and not records that have been convincingly changed or faked?

All this is to say that I think it's completely believable that a technologically advanced society could have a poor grasp of its own recent history.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, but that's never what happens in these stories though. It's not governments deliberately hiding knowledge, it's people acting like events from 200 years were never recorded in any way, anywhere. Like, even if there's no live-footage of, IDK, the assassination of the great queen X, there sure should be a mention of it somewhere.