Humanity has always sought a connection to the past, whether it be in museums, in books, or the world around us. This is our inheritance, we are told, from a timeline spanning millennia.
Stories of ‘history’ are ingrained in our minds so early, as such a ‘matter of fact’, that the mythology continues to permeate most of our existences without demanding critical reflection.
As a result, nobody ever stops to examine the vast literary hallucinations that form the basis of ‘historical research’, or the subsequent mass consensus that is largely based in illusion.
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