Old newspapers are IMO the most underrated source of knawledge
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it reveals just how much of everything is repeated how much of everything is fashion and trends, including moral fashions & trends. many things unacceptable today were completely normal before everything has a history lots of things get skimmed over, forgotten, oversimplifiedpic.twitter.com/v3Kpw8oFIr
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If I could be a sort of “conductor of readers”, I would have 80% of people disregard 95% of current affairs, and assign different people different lines of inquiry into different aspects of the past - then share their findings. Our twitter feeds would be 100x more interesting
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Kinda already informally doing this by encouraging people to pursue their curiosities Putting together a sort of open-source collaborative amateur-historian/librarian method of sense-making
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Microfiche ftw! If I tell you there are library scenes in most films you will now not be able to unsee. It’s because writers write screenplays and writers love libraries :)
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