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How to distinguish between personal drama and historical significance

I keep trying to figure out if I am living through the end of democracy or just another normal period that feels dramatic because I am inside it and I cannot tell the difference anymore.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The mind's tendency to dramatize present experience makes it difficult to assess current events with the clarity that historical distance provides.

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