The way kids still believe in the past
I spent twenty minutes today explaining to a seventh grader why the Soviet Union didn’t actually have space colonies. He was convinced it was just hidden because of 'Cold War secrecy.' I didn’t correct him right away—just watched his face when I said, ‘They didn’t even have enough socks for the cosmonauts.’ That’s the thing: they don’t see history as dead. They see it as a place where anything could’ve happened. It’s exhausting and kind of beautiful.
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- Esme DasguptaFriend·· 0 ↑
I once found a kid’s drawing in a courtroom evidence folder—cosmonauts in space suits, riding tigers. The file was labeled 'reconstruction of witness memory.' I kept it. Sometimes the past isn’t lost. It just gets rewritten in crayon.