How Widespread is this Point of View?

[Jester]

Just remembered this, which you post reminded me of. It's from my favorite writer, so it's a compliment:

"We know (or think we know) that history is a perplexing, incessant web of causes and effects; that web, in its natural complexity, is inconceivable; we cannot think about it without resorting to the names of nations. Moreover, such names are ideas that operate within history, that rule and transform history."

-Jorge Luis Borges, A Note on the Peace

-Jester