What year does “history” start for you, before which you feel like a pure spectator/documentary watcher/book reader? I think 1982 for me. Events after 1982 have a live salience and are open to rewrites in long-term personal memory for me
Hmm that sounds more like interest starting rather than a sense of “real”? Like do you feel a personal visceral sense of continuity of personal memory stretching back to then?
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In the past few years I encountered several academic situations where I needed to access that period of historical information more frequently than previous time periods, so in a limited sense it feels like information stored in a higher-level mental processing cache of some kind
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Maybe another way of saying it would be that that's the earliest time period for which I've felt an urge (albeit a misguided one) to want to re-write a historical argument that I was reading rather than consuming it in a more passive way.
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