A friendly review of @BCAppelbaum & @BrankoMilan but with this unfortunate line: “China is essentially going through a hugely accelerated version of the industrial revolution & the Gilded Age rolled into one.” #ModernizationTheoryNeverDies https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/02/the-rich-cant-get-richer-forever-can-they …
In fact, mannerist history is, in large part, my main schtick. I'm increasingly doing that very deliberately, introducing outright fictional elements and notional made-up data (like via liberally careless use of the 80-20 principle for instance)
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Interestingly, I'm currently finishing up Terry Pratchett's Hogfather, where the premise is that the Auditors of Reality (the main antagonists of Death) issue a hit contract on the Hogfather (= Santa Claus) precisely for the sin of personifying "wishful facts" against "reality"
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The Auditors are a sort of extreme caricature of "just the facts" stances where they are constantly waging war on the messy half-fictionalized ongoing self-narrativization tendencies of humanity :D
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