> There's this belief that society always moves in a "forward/upward" directory That's the central fallacy of Whig historiography [1]. It is in part facilitate

> There's this belief that society always moves in a "forward/upward" directory That's the central fallacy of Whig historiography [1]. It is in part facilitated by the fact that recent history is often written by the victors. MLK repeated the same fallacy: "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." Is that the same arc that included two world wars? [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whig_history https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whig_history