Sunday, September 2, 2007

What is the Matrix?


[T]hat what happened and that which is said to have happened are and are not the same may itself be historical.
-Michel Rolph Trouillot
Eight years after getting a dose of skepticism from Morpheus' "What is real?", I'm dumbfounded by theoretical issues dealing with history. That historians try to explain the metaphysics of their discipline in convoluted arguments doesn't make it any easier. Ugh...

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