I’ve been wondering about how history will eventually settle down to regard our foggy time. Each time I‘ve tried, I failed even to produce a guess. I’m starting even to wonder if this could be the first era in history which will *permanently* elude a coherent history of its era.
Every period feels foggy at the time. The coherent histories are imposed later, often at some violence to the facts. Our period won't be any different.
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History is written by the historians and appears linear. But events aren't really created by historians and are chaotic.
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Presumably less violence to the facts than ever before due to information being democratized, or atleast a definite understanding of how the facts can be fabricated.
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don’t think the Egyptians were all, “We are the children of the Middle Kingdom.” -
Also I took a class in college called, “World of Charlemagne” bet 98% of the ppl in that world didn’t know it was his.
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Events are always understood after they occur
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Certainly sounds true, but how do know for sure?
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You mean, this will be "the good ol' days" one day??
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Isn’t that the truth. I think it will be the first where we see history written and recorded in front of our very eyes in a short period of time. Where it might have taken 20-100 years for history to be rewritten, it might only take a few years this time around.
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This. You think Rome's contemporaneous times weren't foggy? I got some stock to sell you
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It's likely the long term history of our current time will be evaluated in terms of how it influenced the evolution of our species. Going from Homo sapiens to whatever is next.
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