Ben-Meir: History, then and now
What is history in the era of YouTube? With the Internet providing easy access to endless (and endlessly fragmented) information, and with self-selected social networks rapidly replacing more tangible communities, our society is losing the common ground on which histories are built.
History is more than a record of things that happened; it is a set of shared reference points that gives coherence to a people, the glue that joins individuals into communities. In a world that encourages isolation, we must reach out and construct a common story.
Herodotus begins his “History”...
