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tilthat:

TIL Humans appeared 200,000 years ago. Written history begins 5,500 years ago. This means 97% of human history is lost forever.

via reddit.com

not to be all like “this is the culmination of the violence of writing that everybody from plato to rousseau wrote about,” but like the automatic assumption that written history is the only real history and that indigenous oral traditions, which in some cases stretch back more than ten thousand years, are automatically precluded from containing actual memory, is both racist and colonial as fuck and also the culmination of the violence of writing that everybody from plato to rousseau wrote about

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