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An anti-historicist sense of history is knowing when to make exceptions for principles and taking on burden of eternal storytelling after...
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...When you make an exception, you create unsettled meaning. You have to contextualize it indefinitely until greater truth/principle emerges
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...an exception/special case becomes fuel for dangerous historicism when it becomes possible to use it as a precedent in uncritical ways...
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...digression. Cloudflare memo is kinda like an event from Mahabharata, which is full of stuff like this, and a great example to learn from
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...The Mahabharata contains a theory of consequentialist ethics (the Gita), but the actual story is a bunch of exceptions/violations of...
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