Think of each of the 7 billion people on this planet as a living, reduced-to-practice history book that is a better study than any text
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Just as ground truth in physics lives in experimentation, ground truth in the humanities lives in... humans. This seems to surprise many.
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I noticed this reading NYRB on author who found those who miss the Soviet union. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/10/13/svetlana-alexievich-new-kind-of-history/ …. worth a read!
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Academic history (and archaeology) are full of massive biases; largely undocumented. These folk have v v thin skins if you point it out
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yes, it's a narrow thing, not that you guys are doing things differently.
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Agreed, although studying people at various scales necessitates different rules on this take. As in Physics as well.
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