The Problem of Reported Speech in the History of History

Young people get taken in sort of by the manner in which it's delivered rather than what's actually being said absolutely and I think that's a serious concern for all of us. We're often forced into forms of reported speech including causing direct speech because we're trying to convey very complicated stuff  in an accessible digestible way. But then we run into the problem of creating false aggregates that then need to be disentangled if I can put it that way. So those are the two things I want us to look at and in order to sort of help set the table I just wanted to return once again to um the letters on historical materialism by angles uh specifically the one to