LARPed to Death

One of the weirder aspects of humanity is we have a number of ways to record events, like writing, and oral traditions, but our history is 99.9% unreliable, and the recorded histories we do have only pertain to a handful of people and only reach back to the fairly recent past.

I think one of the reasons history is so unreliable is individuals and groups present a fantastical, mythologized version of themselves to the world. Social media allows even normal people to do that on a daily basis. It invites them to present a fantasy version of their life as their day-to-day reality. To preserve the myth, history is edited and forgotten.

Whole nations and religions do this--they're basically corporate entities that are embedded in a people. There's probably no more glaring case of it than Israel. It's like a nation of conscious LARPers who maybe don't really believe their story... they're like liars who try to force other people to acquiesce to their fantasy to make it credible. That's pretty fucked up.

Communism was really very similar... a new delusion that tried to force belief.