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To say "tenuous" is to wildly understate the problems. IMO, history is tenuous - even recent history. 'Prehistory' is just an act of collective imagination fr
by verisimi 2y ago
To say "tenuous" is to wildly understate the problems.
IMO, history is tenuous - even recent history. 'Prehistory' is just an act of collective imagination from licensed historians.
- AlbertCory 2y agoYup. "an act of collective imagination" describes it pretty well.
- wormius 2y agoI think it's not even just 'recent history' - it's current reality (let the whinging about Continental Philosophy commence). The past decade has taught me that Robert Anton Wilson's "reality tunnels" is a very real phenomenon and far more powerful an explanation of the "reality" of the (socially constructed) world that I would grow up in than I ever suspected.
- verisimi 2y agoYes. The socially constructed world is not the actual, personally-experienced world. The stories you believe determine the reality you can consider.