Shit you see simply by virtue of being alive is not an indicator of the unusual nature of anything. If you live 100 years and see 100 christmases, that’s only 5% of all christmases. It’s a particularly stupid phrase relative to deep time scales much bigger than human lifespans.
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There’s a version of this parochial scholars are prone to, which amounts to “if nobody’s ever talked about it in my narrow field, it’s new to the world” “Never seen anything like these forest fires in medieval military history” effectively. Different species of egotism.
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Aside, Cthulhucene is a Donna Haraway term https://www.e-flux.com/journal/75/67125/tentacular-thinking-anthropocene-capitalocene-chthulucene/ …
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