ancient ache

All the pain of history hurts us still.

signal / noise

With history the story is signal while time amounts to noise.

past forward

The past is useful only so far as its lessons can inflect the present and the future.

scary stuff

Fantasy is for those too faint-hearted to face history.

falling apart faster

In the U.S. we accelerate our ruins.

no memory

Time hasn’t any memory. But we may call it history for the sake of convenience.

there's no there there

The only thing we can be sure of about the future is that we’ll have a lot to talk about when we get there.

past imperfect

Memory is imagination with a history.

mapped or lived

Determinism is a mapping of history. While free will exists only in the present.

telling light

Putting a light on darker aspects of history is enough. To expose is to judge.

sequentially challenged

I was discussing history with a prophet.