It's a Model, Not Prophecy!

[David Horn]

(02-13-2017, 01:48 PM)SomeGuy Wrote:

Quote:All true, but less important in this modern era.  Looking for trends is really hard when the pace of events is so high, and what qualifies as significant is still TBD.

I don't think it has anything to do with this "modern era" being somehow faster paced than any of those other periods, just that we don't have the same perspective since we are in the middle of it.  You read a history book, you can skim over the events of several years in so many pages, and only get the highlights, those events considered to be part of the narrative by historians with the benefit of hindsight.

All true, but we don't live in hindsight.  We live today.  The news has been delivered by firehose for a while, but the size of the hose is now H-U-G-E, to quote a "famous American". Even more to the point, the ability to fact-check is overwhelmed by the shear volume to the point that fact-checking is now "old news", and quickly if not totally ignored.

So yes, I consider it important.  YMMV.