You know, this is a really good comment. I think there’s a market for the skill of making people feel history like this, by putting it into the context of how it’d have actually felt to be there and wrestle with the problems they would have faced. You pulled it off in just a handful of paragraphs.
Thank you! It’s always a part of history I’ve really adored. When the pieces are put together that show just what massive endeavors are really made of, and how much of modernity we take for granted.
Life can be shit in a lot of ways, but we also have incredible and novel systems, even just of thinking, which we do not always appreciate because they have become so ingrained in our lives and societies.
You know, this is a really good comment. I think there’s a market for the skill of making people feel history like this, by putting it into the context of how it’d have actually felt to be there and wrestle with the problems they would have faced. You pulled it off in just a handful of paragraphs.
It’s like our version of science communication.
Thank you! It’s always a part of history I’ve really adored. When the pieces are put together that show just what massive endeavors are really made of, and how much of modernity we take for granted.
Life can be shit in a lot of ways, but we also have incredible and novel systems, even just of thinking, which we do not always appreciate because they have become so ingrained in our lives and societies.