Chapter 12

I've written a number of papers on consciousness, which centers on the the concept of subjective experience. In Chapter 12, I was reminded that even history has its own subjective nature. That is, "world" history is shaped according to who's writing it. Strayer reminds us that history is often written by the winners (of battles, technology, and so on). While to a large degree commonsensical, it serves us well to remember, especially in living in a place and time such as ours, where wealth is amassed in the hands of a relatively small number of citizens, how our experiences are governed by that.