“science is not a collection of truths,” but rather “a continuing exploration of mysteries.”

1. 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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From the broad temporality

that this era forces us to make sense of, our existence is surely dependent

only on what it leaves behind.

That is, it forces us to imagine our lives as

the marks, remains and impacts we have left upon the Earth, without “our”

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ne exactly what was

meant

by these marks.

In the interest of building a narrative (it's no coincidence that history and story are similar words), you take out everything not relevant, and end up with only a small sliver of the entire state of the world at any given time point. Of course, that sliver may contain some breadth, if you're writing a narrative of something large like "the Americ... See more

there are no futures without histories.