i guess one of my core beliefs that’s so core i didn’t even realize it was a belief is that ancient history is over. Like ancient history can explain the world as it is now, but if you tell history as a “story” where the “characters” are tribes or empires or whatever then those stories are over. What’s happening now is according to different rules with different basic entities. And I’m realizing that the state of Israel for one makes more sense if these people think that ancient history is continuing, like there’s the destruction of the first temple and then the jews return, then the destruction of the second temple and now the jews returning as a continuous story about the same “character”, the jewish people. When i guess I haven’t even put those in the same context; the state of israel is post-WWII stuff, like taiwan and the partition of india. It’s global industrial capitalist history
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