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Understanding history is a necessary for knowing the truth of the world; grasping thelaws of history is a premise for realizing the rules of society. Correspondingly, the primarymethod for destroying a nation is to first undermine its history—trampling on nationalhistory to deconstruct national culture, national self-confidence and national identity.No matter which country is concerned, critical evaluation of historical figures has a crucialeducational function in promoting the spirit of patriotism, safeguarding proletarian ideology, clarifying the legitimacy of governance, and initiating a road of benign developmentfor the future.

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History is not only about material production and consumption, but also involves pol-itical, spiritual and cultural development. It has been argued, Historical materialism starts from the basic principle that social existence determines socialconsciousness, the mode of material production is fundamental to the existence and devel-opment of human society, and that human history is, first of all, the history of productiondevelopment, that is to say, the history of the working masses who undertake material pro-duction.

harry haller wrote the following post Sat, 05 Apr 2025 11:10:44 +0200 A New Historical Materialist Interpretation Of The Role Of Historical Figures: On The Concept Of “Makers Of History In A Broad Sense” Enfu Cheng & Zhihua Zhan (13 pages) archive.org #history #materialism
#^https://archive.org/details/a-new-historical-materialist-interpretation-of-the-role-of-historical-figures/
#book #study for #future
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I heard Annihilation was about grief or relationships. I'm interested af in Scavenger's Reign.

I feel like we have a rough indentation / substructure of how we will process things from birth, but that every event thereon will shape it further.

As well, we know ourselves in reference to others: "I'm like A, not like B, but most like C. What lies beyond C? I might see myself reflected best over there."

"Rules do not exist to bind you; they exist so you may know your freedoms."
Parameters outline a given environment within which to experiment and explore. It's one antidote to Blank Page Syndrome, for example.

nebula.tv/videos/talefoundry-f

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I have to disagree entirely about personifying the automated house in There Will Come Soft Rains (fantastic name), but otherwise yes. This is exactly my understanding.

nebula.tv/videos/talefoundry-f

It's also a good description of why I feel so confused by others.
People tend to feel more secure (than I do) in their identities as individuals, group members, and (neurotypical / neurodefault / neurorigid) humans.

NebulaFiction About NobodyBy Tale Foundry
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