widespread historical illiteracy among both tech types and the journos who cover the industry is funny because you get to watch them blindly reenact patterns that happened before
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this specific thing is the crux of the article I wrote for jacobite, the general idea in other domains is surely going to be a common theme next things I put together
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for instance the economic side of the tech industry, people throw around "serfdom" and "feudalism" because they suffer from small reference pools. there are much riper analogies
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also have been intending on "here's a framework for the past 1600 years of western european political history required to understand modern ideological divides/future directions"
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which I have been stopping and starting on since early 2016, it's a big task and I get stuck on autistically explaining minute ground-level details as "necessary context"
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I don't know if I recommend studying history tbh, on the one hand everything makes a lot more sense, on the other the urge to write five figure word count blog posts is a dread curse
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