Don't trust conclusions of people who enjoy history as story rather than data, & preferentially consume history of people they identify with
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You can't not narrativize. Pretending you can is denial of natural cognition. But you can pwn proc at brain OS level via irony
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theres a dif b/t 'i see patterns in my behavior that resemble other patterns' & being committed 2 a narrative of say triumph/victimhood
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My contention, even if you can't put a label like triumph/victimhood onto it, there is one. Better to know/choose than not.
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narratives are only visible after the fact, and usually aren't experienced as such. this makes them fragile frameworks to live within!
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curious why you don't like the idea of history as story (b/c you recognize the fragility of that, i assume?) but disagree on this
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Not fragility that bothers me. That's inescapable in non-narrative history too. It's Jungian shadow projection I am wary of.

