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Before I begin today, I'd like to talk about an interesting article or an interview that I read earlier today.

The interview was with an author named Alex Rosenberg, who is a philosophy professor at Duke University.

He specializes in political science and neuroscience.

He's recently published a book titled How History Gets Things Wrong, The Neuroscience of Our Addiction to Stories.

No, I haven't read the book, I've only read this interview, but I'd really like to read this book. It appears to be about how our addiction to stories, our

almost pathological need to incorporate events into narratives can warp our understanding of history.

For example, the story of Napoleon is a story that is traditionally viewed through a biographical lens, when in fact there are... is Napoleon doing what he did. The story of the Third Reich is less seen that way these days, but often Adolf Hitler is the central character in the story and perhaps he shouldn't be.

Perhaps we need to look more at the economics of Revolutionary France and interwar Germany.

Perhaps we need to look more at the climate, the environment in those two periods and those two regions.

Perhaps we need to look more at the socioeconomic side of why these things happened the way they did.

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