i've long wanted to read a thorough, laser focused indictment of post modern theory. unfortunately that book could exist and i wouldn't know and if i did i probly wouldn't have the patience to read to the end

was just reading the intro and dedication of marc bloch's historian's craft and occurred to me that part of the reason norms and such are flying apart from what seems like centrifugal forces might be that we seem to have switched into a mode whereby history no longer has any purchase

if the record of the past is largely meaningless (or little more than a curiosity) then it doesn't matter so much what we do in the moment, whether an individual or an institution

#history #postmodernism #relativism #stopTheWorldAhWannaGetOff