who has interesting take (that you don't necessarily agree with) on interplay of narrative as motive force versus material conditions/circumstances in outworking of history
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is people behave according to a world-idea which contributes to guiding action but over time the narrative drifts away from reality (eg what power centers have "legitimacy" vs which have real power)
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this tension builds until it becomes unsustainable at which point a new narrative has to be constructed to explain the current reality
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at which point the narrative is projected both forwards in time to guide action and *backwards* in time to explain events from before it existed
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this to me is the crucial idea that can be used to make sense of both events of history over a long span and also writings of historians projecting their world-idea back onto times past
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