“science is not a collection of truths,” but rather “a continuing exploration of mysteries.”
the hedgehog review • Mystery
But any adequate understanding of their past will also inevitably challenge our own present assumptions about the world and so change the meanings of our present.
Jeffrey J. Kripal • The Super Natural: Why the Unexplained Is Real
- The argument is that accountings of history are not accurate, and can never be accurate, thanks to the narrative fallacy . By its nature, narrative necessarily compresses reality into some coherent tale, meaning that accountings of history tend to overemphasise intention and action, instead of the more plausible ‘random actions by actors in a compl
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Historical narrative, it is simply no longer mapped onto the objective facts of the decade. The maps in our hands don't match the territory, and that's why we are upset.