History Perspective

[DanaC]

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

I've never been able to let go of a phrase in some history documentary I watched a long time ago. They said some area of land had been controlled by so-and-so for a really long time "with the exception of a brief 200-year rebellion."

WE are a "brief" 200-year rebellion.

*chuckles*

That's one way of looking at it.


What I always find interesting is the way something can be a fundamental of our existence - a ubiquitous understanding of the world or ourselves - and seem like it must always have been so - and then you realise it's a recent development. It's always a little disconcerting.

'The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.' L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between