History Is What's Happening
The Ex - History is What's Happening (one of the greatest musical recordings of all time) No matter when or where you're reading this, even if it's ten thousand years after I wrote it, or more: The most important history to study and understand is the history that's happening right now. Whatever's happening right now, when you're reading this, in your world, in your galaxy. Call that Group A. But you can't really understand the history of Group A, unless you understand its context. The next most important history to understand is the history that you need to understand in order to understand Group A. Call that Group B. Quite likely, this is the history that happened immediately before Group A, but not necessarily. It's quite possible that you're living at a time when laws that are hundreds of years old are still in effect, when governments that are hundreds of years old still exist. Or other social forms, social customs, social hierarchies t