Written history is usually a simplification that has lost a lot of the context and nuance from it. I don't need to follow in real-time, but a lot of the contex

Written history is usually a simplification that has lost a lot of the context and nuance from it. I don't need to follow in real-time, but a lot of the context and nuance can be clearly understood at the moment and so it stills helps to follow along even if that means lagging on the input.