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by ddggdd 975 days ago
Historian like this one is more like fashion columnist, they choose from huge volumes of history records and fit a story that tailor to current popular mass hysteria, if lucky and good at story telling, they will come into public awareness and get popular themselves, like ‘history is ending ‘ 20 some years ago, they should really be honest about history, respect the unpredictability and stop curve fitting.