We belong to times far more than we belong to places. We just don’t realize it because we can’t travel in time and can never see our time from the perspective of another.

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As in, for example, “he was a man of his time”? Or some other conception of time that has less to do with the prevailing value sets and norms?

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Ahh okay I see what you’re saying. The past is a foreign country quote resonates. Reminds me of a David Lowenthal book I read back in college with the same title

Ahh okay I see what you’re saying. The past is a foreign country quote resonates. Reminds me of a David Lowenthal book I read back in college with the same title

https://a.co/d/0ZeuAwU

Much more basic. You’re a citizen of a certain chapter of history like you are of a country. Except there is no foreign travel or emigration allowed by physics.

“The past is a foreign country”