Post #4053171
2026-07-24 03:35 UTC
I guess we'd love to know ourselves. There's so many little mysteries of U.S. and world history that remain unsolved, forever indeterminate most likely because there's just not enough information. History fades away into conjecture and hypothesizing on the basis of minute fragments of surviving evidence, but the same can be said of #astronomy and #cosmology. History isn't "soft" any more than physics. It's very material and substantial, the spine of humanity.
It's not good that folks have been propagandized into regarding history as roughly equivalent with mythology, all equally conjectural and speculative and thus a free playground for rogues and tricksters.
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@mxchara@seattle.pink 2026-07-24 03:38
I hesitate to mention that unwittingly, or perhaps somewhat wittingly in Jack Lewis's case, the #Inklings have played a decisive role in blurring the lines between historiography and fantasy-writing. I wish to be charitable towards #Tolkien (and even Lewis, though he smells quite rotten to me) but this is why I say that perhaps he should have examined his doubts about hurling so much of himself, the better part of his power in fact, into the legendarium... ...oh dear. Oh dear oh dear. (cont'd)