Studying history broadly, w/o connecting with enough living people who come from those histories, is a serious strategic error in humanities
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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. nybooks.com/articles/2016/. worth a read!
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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.




