The further back you look at history, the more everything seems 1,000% determined by structural forces beyond individual agency Whereas things happening today can seem hugely driven by idiosyncratic personalities/chance. I think this is an illusion caused by how ppl process time
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Replying to @MattZeitlin @JStein_WaPo
I’m inclined to say the illusion goes the other way, and past events were more contingent than we realize when you look at them up close.
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“what you don’t understand was the internet was a close run thing. the mansfield amendment killed arpa, and parc only happened because bob taylor wanted to finish it off. imagine doing it today, if we didn’t already have the internet” - alan kayhttps://youtu.be/fhOHn9TClXY
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