The director Spike Jonze is credited with saying that "the past is just a story we tell ourselves." Is it? If so, could reconstructions of the past help us agree on what the story is-or will different people reconstruct different pasts?.Has the pandemic forced a healthy reimagining of past practices, like attending school and working at a real office, or should we go back to the way things were?."Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it" is a phrase many people repeat, but is it possible that those who do study history are doomed to absorb the worst things about it? Would it be better if we could scrub history clean and start over again with no memories of what came before us?. Taking it more literally, however: is the present really a unique point in history? If so, does it make it harder for us to understand what the past was like?
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