You’re babbling.
More babble. My wife took a semester long 400 level course, “Causes of the Civil War”. Boy, have I heard about it in the decades since. Great tomes have been written on the Fall of Rome. The man on the street had a good understanding of these things as they were occurring, I bet. Much of what they “knew” was probably never litigated fact. Much truth is not litigated fact and a great deal of litigated fact ain’t true.