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The major driver of human history is contingency rather than inevitability.
Drawn from what Patrick Wyman said
What Patrick Wyman actually said
- Patrick Wyman American historian with a PhD from the University of Southern California
The major driver in this story is not inevitability, but contingency: how people made choices that made sense to them in the context of their own world.
Where this was said
↗Perspectives: Past, Present, and Future, by Patrick Wymanpatrickwyman.substack.com
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