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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mallus" data-source="post: 2643521" data-attributes="member: 3887">It might, rabbit, it might...I think the point I was trying to make when I posted that was (and that was long time ago) was that I don't treat historical simulation lightly. It's extraordinarily difficult to unlearn all your cultural learning and attempt to see things from a different point of view. In fact, its more or less impossible. Too much goes into the shaping of a person's worldview. The best we can hope for is a kind of faux objectivity; a neutral space in which we promise to play nice and put away our more blatant prejudices.So while I think it would be fun to try and immerse oneself in a radically different worldview, I also think that its a fool's errand. More trouble than its worth. I think that the occasional nod towards the trapping of a given historical period works just fine...</blockquote>