Timeline for Is 1000 years enough time for an event to be considered "legend" for a people whose average age is 150?
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| Feb 24, 2022 at 16:33 | comment | added | JBH | @Steve You are absolutely correct. Consider Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Putin's speech made reference to historical claims that caused historians to howl - but he knows (just as most world leaders know) that if you promote a fiction long enough, so long as it's an enjoyable fiction, it eventually supplants the truth. Unless the OP's 150-year-old people have fantastic memories, they'll start believing the fiction as they forget the past. If you think about it, how easy is it to embellish the memories of your own past? Answer: really easy. | |
| Feb 24, 2022 at 8:46 | comment | added | Steve | As implied by this answer, conversion to "legend" status will also be helped a lot with popular fictionalised accounts - there are already some people who are surprised to learn that the film Titanic was based on a real event. For events of a similar era where scant "hard evidence" is available, the popular fictionalised account may be the only widespread re-telling that remains, and perhaps importantly, the details added into the fictionalised account for dramatic effect will be given equal status to the "real facts" by later generations who know neither before seeing the work. | |
| Feb 24, 2022 at 5:30 | history | answered | JBH | CC BY-SA 4.0 |