[mmusson]

The question is what you really believe to be true. If your car hit me and you truly didn’t remember it that way then you are proving the author’s point.

Maybe you do remember hitting me. There will still be innumerable questions that you couldn’t answer because they were out of your perception in the moment. What if it turns out that in hitting me you stopped me from running over an old lady.

Whether or not you learn of that detail will have a big effect on how you remember the accident.

[foobarbecue]

Right. The past is true, but your memories are flawed, and your experience is incomplete. You have to make an effort to get the facts right. To get a full understanding of any situation, a good start is to talk to anyone you can who was there when it happened.

[mistermann]

The tricky part is: that's also often a good way to get a misunderstanding.

Above you say "tried to overturn an election" - I'm not sure who it is you are referring to here, but that charge was laid at the feet of thousands of January 6th protesters by thousands of journalists and armchair experts, few of whom even ever considered if that was the actual intent of the people.

People often don't wonder what is true, because they are not able to even try.