An Orb Made of Blood and Dirt

Humanity needs to reevaluate how we consume and teach history, but are we even capable of doing so?

Art by Garry Killian on freepik.com

History is not the past. It is not a straight line with a beginning, middle, and end. Rather, it is a spiraling circle, teetering at a slight axis. It curves into itself at some points. Sometimes so exactly that one could be forgiven for mistaking a good historian for a fortune teller. But usually, it repeats…