Conversation

The phrase "you can't rewrite history" is really charming because of course you can! People do it all the time.

In much the same way that a finger pointing at the moon is not the moon, the story of past events is not the past events themselves - and that's what history is: the story of past events.

Conceptually tangling the events with the storytelling about them is dangerous, because while the events are objective, the stories we tell about them are absolutely not.