Let's say you're a history blogger who has written 10 essays on modern US history post-civil war, and 10 on post-Mao China...
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But you've lived 20 years in the US and have known 1000 Americans descended from the period you've blogged, vs 1 wk in China and 3 people
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This means the human truth-ground under your humanities/history writing is fundamentally shaky in a way books and more reading can't fix
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in the US, no good vs evil, no more broad or narrow than any industry...
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Yeah, if you take perspective that the civilization is a thing, seems impossible for us individual "cells" to get a good grasp of it.


