Dienstag - Aphorism 5 History as food. The idea that all of history tells one story makes no more sense than the idea that all food makes one meal.
History is our nourishment.
We can season its flavor to delude our taste buds, but we cannot change the manner in which it supports us, nor our need for it. Only beasts and gods can do without it. But the urge to find a totality to history is not really a desire to gorge. It is a desire to fast. It is a desire to eat one grand meal and then to cease one's dependence on food.