Some rhetoric comes across as though the people were speaking lines in an intergalactic used-car commercial promoting Earth 🤔
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“Earth: Up-and-coming Kardashiev 1.1 civilization in very desirable G2V star system that includes a Top 100 ringed gas giant. Wonderful messianically led missionary apex species where everybody is above average. Minor climate and biosphere reconditioning work needed.”
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I think the reason I started disliking big history around the time Sapiens came out is that big histories suck some people into totalizing history views and then everything they say starts sounding like it’s from a positive or negative Yelp review of earth directed at ET
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Any recommended reads on the philosophy of history or critiques of modern historical methods?
What disenchants you from big history besides the obvious?
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What about small history?
Not even any curiosities?
smol history never hurt anyone
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