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mutatrum | 4 months ago (raw) | export | reply | flag +4 
 Written history is mostly void.

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AbstractEquilibrium | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Ah but isn't the sword & cane at the top of the mountain "written history" in some regard?
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DZC | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 A common mistake every generation has:
We undervalue and underappreciate previous generations systematically.

We use to think that we are the first to think and act in some way, when actually there have been people before us who already thought and acted about the exact same thing.

New generation bias.

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