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The lost plot lines of an edited reality show remind me of what Harari said about the lost arcs of history.
- Dr. Kirk Honda shared the intel that often when a couple is presented on Love is Blind as forever sweethearts, it’s only an editorial choice. 5b1b2a-reality-tv-sweehthearts-being-love-at-first-sight-is-often-just-an-editorial-choice
- Harari said in his book Sapiens that the timeline we live in only seems realistic and even inevitable because it’s the only reality we know. But if we consider alternative histories and look at our own timeline from that perspective, some turns seem really absurd. Like what was the chance that a niche Jewish messianic sect would develop into a world dominating religion? Roughly the same, he says, as the Hare Krishna Movement being the official US religion in a couple hundred years.
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- Alternate histories are fun.
- Alternate histories are kind of like fan fictions.