I’ve lately developed an aversion to generalizations, but otoh, I’m wary of the “great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people” effect of focusing on situational, contingent, matters... without ideas, you drown in small-minded noise...
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Take the raw phenomenology of people/events, the “news”. Throw away everything “explained” by theories of history the way you would in multiple regression till you get to the residuals. The weight of significance and meaning in that residue, how do you tease that out?
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I think that’s what epic narratives do to history. Distill some sort of signature essence out of it. That but for anything/anyone/any time. Post-theory liminal perception or something. It’s a way of seeing and speaking that’s pure 200 proof historicity.
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“See the world in a grain of sand...eternity in an hour” I think refers to this kind of epic eye.
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I suspect this is why I’m obsessed with mediocrity. It seems like the right thing to study.
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Are you looking for resonances? Repetitive patterns, but the repetition and the pattern are somewhat contingent?
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