It is not history, theology or mythology that interest me. It is the fact that history, theology or mythology could have alternative interpretations or explanations. I try to connect the dots between the past and the present.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.
Theories of history used to be supernatural: the divine ruled time; the hand of God, a special providence, lay behind the fall of each sparrow. If the present differed from the past, it was usually worse: supernatural theories of history tend to involve decline, a fall from grace, the loss of God's favor, corruption.
Mythology does not interest me. Nor does history. But the possible overlap between history and mythology excites me immensely.
I don't believe necessarily the past is in the past. It's eternal, it's all around us.
The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.
What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
History is a vision of God's creation on the move.
History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
From the very beginning, history wasn't content simply to be nostalgic fairytales; it wanted to make you think.
I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.