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4 Oct 2023 Conversations with Tyler Ada Palmer on Viking Metaphysics, Contingent Moments, and Censorship
“I think the problem with “Is history just a kind of clutter” is the just, because what is clutter, if not a record of the human beings who have been in a place and used it and lived it and all of the delightful experiences?”
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- 4 Oct 2023
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…Is history just a kind of clutter? And is clutter underrated? Clutter is definitely underrated. I think the problem with “Is history just a kind of clutter” is the just, because what is clutter, if not a record of the human beings who have been in a place and used it and lived it and all of the delightful experiences? I don’t know how often you’ve been decluttering a room and picked up an object and thought, “Oh, yeah, that wonderful day I spent with a friend” or “that frustrating day that then got better in a particular way” or even “that frustrating day that didn’t get better, but now I have the perspective from which to digest my frustrations.” I’m not sure I do declutter rooms. Maybe that’s my problem.…
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