The Mikado
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« on: December 23, 2018, 03:13:15 PM » |
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This gets into a whole complicated History vs Memory debate. There certainly have always been historical texts written about recent-ish events (look at all of the histories of WWII written before 1965 or 1970 or wherever your arbitrary "history" cutoff is), but people who write about extremely recent events are usually directly impacted by them and are trying to set the terms of the debate going forward/get their view out first. The further you get, the more possible it is to view an event...not neutrally (which isn't even necessarily desireable), but at least dispassionately.
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