Don't our traditional forms of information communication, notably "the book" and especially "the textbook" contribute to our belief in linear history?
In our ways to communicate information we have many. Through the years it has changed but one way has stayed constant. That is in the form of a book or a textbook. They have been constant in what they teach and the info they give us. Our textbooks must be consistent so they chose one way to tech history to people. It is also easier to explain history in the since of being linear. Because we grew up with the book and the textbook it is usually what we base all of our knowledge. The reason we use the book and textbook for learning is because they are much cheaper than buying everyone a computer and using it to see the other ways to view history and other things. Also books and textbooks are use because ever since the printing press it was so much easier to pass on information through print materials/ books. Linear can also be expressed best on a straight piece of paper. You could fit more information on a timeline on a page compared to maybe a vortex or a circle. With linear history is expressed with dates that would be easier to read and to understand. It could also be that the other theories are harder to understand compared to the linear theory because of how easy to understand it is. Because just like we learned the four types of history theories, I had trouble understanding the other three compared to linear because I grew ups learning the ways of linear theory.
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