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Created on 2009-04-19 13:34:57 (#19633990), last updated 2009-11-24
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Basic Info| Name: | researchbased |
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| Birthdate: | 04-11 |
| Location: | Canada |
Bio"No, no, historians don't like to think of history in terms of progress, that would be presuming that things are always getting better, always improving."
"So, then things are always getting worse?"
"No... ... I guess we don't think that either. This is just the cynic in me, I guess. But, no. No it's not that things are getting worse - well they do, but that's just as ahistorical as 'progress' is."
"So if it's not progress, and things aren't getting worse either..."
"Then yeah... I guess we prefer to say things change. Just change."
"So, then things are always getting worse?"
"No... ... I guess we don't think that either. This is just the cynic in me, I guess. But, no. No it's not that things are getting worse - well they do, but that's just as ahistorical as 'progress' is."
"So if it's not progress, and things aren't getting worse either..."
"Then yeah... I guess we prefer to say things change. Just change."
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