one of the perspectives provided by studying history is scope and sequence and the ability to remove yourself from the narrow moment and see larger patterns. modernism is a limited, small-minded lifestyle which believes its own importance. what you find in studying history is: every era has that same problem. and the more society collapses in on its own importance, the less perspective it has. the most useful time you could spend is to consider larger swaths of time than just to the victorians. historical obsessions of "masterpieces" bleed into the consciousness of ai and become fixations, and those trying to mimic patterns also pattern those fixations.

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