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James Carse’s fabulous {{br|Finite and Infinite Games}} provides a great prism for framing these battles between the past and present. For what is a “[[lived experience]]”,  a “[[grievance]]” or a “[[standpoint]]”, if not an articulation of ''history''?  
James Carse’s fabulous {{br|Finite and Infinite Games}} provides a great prism for framing these battles between the past and present. For what is a “[[lived experience]]”,  a “[[grievance]]” or a “[[standpoint]]”, if not an articulation of ''history''?  


The [[future]] contains only as-yet ''unlived'' experiences. There ''are'' no ''[[grievance]]s'' there. Our [[standpoint]]s, the margins and their [[intersectionality|intersections]] are ''unknown''.<ref>Unless you accept the data formalist’s stance that the universe is a clockwork, causal determinacy is absolute, and therefore the future is a linear extrapolating of the past. In which case, so is complaining about it. Nothing can be done, and no-one is to be blamed: we are “as flies to wanton boys”. </Ref>
The [[future]] contains only as-yet ''unlived'' experiences. There are ''no'' [[grievance]]s there. Our [[standpoint]]s, the margins and their [[intersectionality|intersections]] are ''unknown''.<ref>Unless you accept the data formalist’s stance that the universe is a clockwork, causal determinacy is absolute, and therefore the future is a linear extrapolating of the past. In which case, so is complaining about it. Nothing can be done, and no-one is to be blamed: we are “as flies to wanton boys”. </Ref>


Being historical, a lived experience is permanent, and set it stone. It cannot be moved. It cannot be removed. It cannot be compensated for. It cannot be denied. It becomes a monument. A shibboleth. A sacred prophecy. But it is our imaginative construction. We choose our significant events. We build our own memorials. We choose to live beneath their shadows. But our present is a function of every point in the past, not just the ones it's suits us to settle on.
Being historical, a lived experience is permanent, and set it stone. It cannot be moved. It cannot be removed. It cannot be compensated for. It cannot be denied. It becomes a monument. A shibboleth. A sacred prophecy. But it is our imaginative construction. We choose our significant events. We build our own memorials. We choose to live beneath their shadows. But our present is a function of every point in the past, not just the ones it's suits us to settle on.
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