Okay folks, we’re going to have a chat about history. Which might seem like a strange subject for a folklorist, but we dabble. Folklorists don’t care about anything except for folklore and the moon, of course—which makes our view of history very pragmatic.
Firstly, regardless of anything else, 1,000 years from now, and after, the 20th century will only be remembered because that’s when primates first set foot on the moon. 99% of people won’t…