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Credibility is your biggest challenge, if you go back and inhabit a big name thinker's body you'll accomplish things, if you go back as an outcast stranger who appeared in the woods one day, you're probably going to die in a cell somewhere, or just of exposure, before you get anyone's serious attention about "what makes up everything."
Reminds me of a Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
you're not completely incorrect, but you seem to have a very pop-sci picture of how the past worked.
If you suddenly appeared in the forest one day it's AFAIK perfectly possible that people would treat you as any immigrant, just go down to the church and get registered and everything will be just dandy so long as you can do some sort of work.
You'd speak practically a different form of English, you'd be unprepared for virtually every modern day hardship, you'd be unskilled at gaining resources and being gainfully employed. I think after about 3 days of interacting with people, they'd get really spooked by you, and that would be that.
Weren't there anti-vagrant and anti-spy laws?
i'm not quite sure how that would work since pilgrimages and other long-distance travel was pretty normal, and there was no way to transfer information faster than said travel (especially not just to get papers on a random pilgrim).
Gdamn it! Is everything I read the past decade just disinformation?
when it comes to history a good rule of thumb is that anything mainstream is complete nonsense, just actually made up.