Or is it? Once the past becomes foreign enough it becomes less politically salient, so study of it becomes more truthful again. We find it far easier to be dispassionate about Alexander's empire than Victoria's empire, to name but one of many examples.
Gonna watch an anime with King Arthur in it.
No, not _Fate: Stay/Night_!
One set in Britannia.
No, not _Code Geass_!!
*grumble*
Just roll the tape already. We'll see if they stick the landing or crash face first into the ground.
We were talking about raising the sanity waterline as a moderate intervention.
But the years have shown that this is a time for drastic revolutions.
We will shake the faultlines of all worldviews to usher forth a sanity tsunami, a cataclysm or reasonableness. We will flatten mountainranges of delusion and push the dust into the deep-sea trenches of impartial anticipation