Re:History is just one damn thing after another
by hotpotamus on Saturday June 24, 2023 @07:17AM
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Well, this isn't really at all what the article is about - I think it's more a criticism of "The End of History" type thinking. But the study of history is an interesting subject too and I've got some recommendations.
Tim Urban (whose recent work I'm not especially enamored of) wrote about this a bit and came up with an interesting visual[0]. Not so much a map about events, but placing famous figures side-by-side so you see whose lives overlapped in time which is not always intuitive.
It also sounds like you really need to watch or read "Connections" by James Burke.
> Connections explores an "Alternative View of Change" (the subtitle of the series) that rejects the conventional linear and teleological view of historical progress. Burke contends that one cannot consider the development of any particular piece of the modern world in isolation.
Tim Urban (whose recent work I'm not especially enamored of) wrote about this a bit and came up with an interesting visual[0]. Not so much a map about events, but placing famous figures side-by-side so you see whose lives overlapped in time which is not always intuitive.
It also sounds like you really need to watch or read "Connections" by James Burke.
> Connections explores an "Alternative View of Change" (the subtitle of the series) that rejects the conventional linear and teleological view of historical progress. Burke contends that one cannot consider the development of any particular piece of the modern world in isolation.
[0] https://waitbutwhy.com/2016/01/horizontal-history.html