That's not the way that history works. It is like a garden; if it is not tended and cultivated, it gets overgrown by weeds and perishes. In other words, if history is not deliberately tended, protected, and perpetuated, it will simply vanish like the disintegration of a ghost town. Knowledge is not immune to the process of entropy. It doesn't take an army of "Erasers" to make it go away. All it requires is indifference and neglect.
The internet is a two-edged sword. There is preservation in the redundancy of copies of information. But there are weeds in the profusion of bogus speculation parading as alternative "history."
That's not the way that history works. It is like a garden; if it is not tended and cultivated, it gets overgrown by weeds and perishes. In other words, if history is not deliberately tended, protected, and perpetuated, it will simply vanish like the disintegration of a ghost town. Knowledge is not immune to the process of entropy. It doesn't take an army of "Erasers" to make it go away. All it requires is indifference and neglect.
The internet is a two-edged sword. There is preservation in the redundancy of copies of information. But there are weeds in the profusion of bogus speculation parading as alternative "history."