Are these not your histories, also? Are you somehow outside of us and our histories?
Your inquisitiveness on the peculiar nature of my prosaic style, unravels within me concern about your intentions! Are they pure? Are they dubious? Are they cynical? Are they obsessive? Are they fun!?! ...
But in all seriousness, I try to have fun and go with the flow when I type. If I picked a "yours" instead of an "ours", okay -- so what.
This is the Israel thread... Hmm.. If the ongoing "
factual" basis of recording the loss of life over there in Gaza, is in truth
nonfactual ...
(Niall) What is the current death toll-ish in Gaza since Israel began bombing in 2023?
A: Nearly a million.
... along with so many other oddities inquiries questioned about, my stance on
the histories is that they are "hi, or high-stories", in effect forms of white-lies, when we don't know better, and black-lies when do do know better. If I wasn't there to see it happen, it might as well just be a myth with some arbitrary figment of included truth that serves the purposes of some narrative.
It becomes problematic when everyone else is referencing the same "history" as foundational to a world view. We might not perceive the ramifications of this within our lives, or our children's lives, but give it 100 to 200 years into the future, and whoever's around then certainly won't know any better, and they will probably have little evidence to furnish new inquiries on it.
But if you do have something curious to look at, I'd be interested to take a gander! :D
Like a personal diary. British Museum Curator & Assyriologist Irving Finkel has been promoting around the notion of personalized recordings to be a pertinent source of current experience and insight, as a message for the future.
Who knows -- a whole envelopment of these digital spaces might be some impending function of a widely implemented, assimilated, and accepted AI future, wherein the facts are curated by an algorithm, and popular voice will have no say in what is printed out in the textbooks, and displayed on the tablets, that the next generation is inculcated on. There's easy to burn though. :(