History ends when ghosting tech is perfected. When it becomes possible for anyone to ignore any specific other person entirely, for the rest of their life. I thought a post-truth condition was necessary for this, but turns out the weaker condition of post-authorship will do.
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Insert joke about “I don’t need to outrun the lion, I just need to outrun you” You don’t need to explain the fossil record, you just need to posit a god who chose to play an elaborate prank. Occam’s razor is an aesthetic standard you can ignore when it comes to history.
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This follows Hannah Arendt’s model of history as sort of an evolving public narrative of “appearances” and “recognitions” among free individuals, but never mind if that angle is obscure to you. It’s the reason this idea hangs together more internally consistent than it might seem
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The main problem with constructing leakproof realities is that sufficiently big/powerful historic events will always leak in. Earthquakes, nuclear bomb, rising water level submerging a city. But you can always believe Cthulhu or god or Godzilla we’re responsible for such things
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So the only thing you actually need to filter out to stabilize your preferred revisionist history built on alt facts is... specific people annoying you with their varying accounts. Unless they are uniquely necessary in your life, you can super-ghost them without consequences.
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