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Ep131 - Dan Carlin | The New Golden Age of Oral Historical Storytelling

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The One Eyed Man Is King

History is a little bit like a great experiment. What would happen if the great mass of society really didn't know anything about the past? If this became a specialista endeavor, like biologist or something, where if you want to know what happened ten years you go to a specialist. And i think part of the new media is the ability, instead of broadcasting and having to appeal to everybody out there, you can say, no, no, i'm targeting this little, teeny, narrow demographic. I think that the people that like it ar tend to be people that organize their thinking in a historical, linear framework. So for me, it's all linear. A equals b, then

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