For most of history, most people didn’t have a “worldview” based on anything other than what their local leaders wanted them to know. In the era of early civilizations along the Niles, the Tigris & Euphrates, to the Indus or the Yellow River, any information was between elites & only got passed on to the population in terms that the elites believed was in their interest. Terrible news often reached the general population, but what happened 20 miles from where a person lived wasn’t “news”. Diplomacy wasn’t at all a concern for most people.
Society Is Fragmented & That's Ok
Society Is Fragmented & That's Ok
Society Is Fragmented & That's Ok
For most of history, most people didn’t have a “worldview” based on anything other than what their local leaders wanted them to know. In the era of early civilizations along the Niles, the Tigris & Euphrates, to the Indus or the Yellow River, any information was between elites & only got passed on to the population in terms that the elites believed was in their interest. Terrible news often reached the general population, but what happened 20 miles from where a person lived wasn’t “news”. Diplomacy wasn’t at all a concern for most people.