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getting away from Fukuyama: history is nothing more than an ongoing interpretation of stuff that others saw worthy of memorializing. talking about restarting this process gets into murky totalitarian territory (Bolshevism)... also... turns out they weren’t really able to restart!
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apparently history ended but then there was 9/11, the war on terror, economic dislocation, Trump, is my gist. If you think he deserves more of a shake I’m onboard. My sense is his big thing is state capture now.
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Yep that’s the pop misunderstanding. The theory does not say significant events stop happening. Only that they don’t constitute history in a useful technical sense, because they stop mattering in key ways.
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what I hear is, “there has been born conditions where a higher order of abstraction qualifies the meaning of events, not the events themselves (where the meaning of events can only be discerned by highly specialized experts)”. Am I wrong?
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Up to you to decide if the specialized sense is worth the effort to access for you. It’s not an idea dependent on social proof. Like gravity it applies even to those skeptical of it. Believers get agency out of applying the laws.
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I’m trying to tell you something! Something of what I think! A distillation of what I have read and learned! I am looking to learn from you! I think you’ve got blind spots I can help augment! Probably the other way around also!
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Not worth the effort for me tbf
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