>>182266
>Could you elaborate, please? This sounds very interesting

"history" is the movement of human societies through time, propelled by the schisms (contradictions) that occur within societies. These schisms can be small or large but they add up to create breaking points at which things change radically (sublimation). There is a movement where a thing, that is made of conflicting elements, has to come to terms with those conflicting elements, at which point a new thing is born. In anime terms, Ikari Genji exists, he loves people, they make him feel good, but also he hates people, they've hurt him so much(the hedgehogs dilema, the contradiction), therefore Genji Ikari must become LCL (sublimation).

Well to answer that first we must describe society. Societies are social collections of individuals, they sustain themselves through production, of food, housing, clothes, etc. Societies therefore organize themselves around production. This organization is done through social relations, which are are intangible, ideology, ideology exists only as relations between people; but, people have actions and these relations between people can be made physical through the mediation of human action. Your relation to production, very generally speaking owning or owned, determines your social class, which determines how you sustain yourself, through labor or through expropriation of another's labor.

So production (materiality) determines social relations ("immateriality"), which then are reflected back onto reality (materiality) through humans. Its a cycle. This is what i mean by "acting on history", humans within a system have freedom of action, yes, but that freedom isn't infinite, it is closed.

I can't quit my job because i need to eat and have housing and clothes because society is organized in such a way that i work for wage to buy commodities and that is how i sustain myself, even if i TECHNICALLY have the ability to quit. A medieval peasant in the Frankish empire couldn't browse Heyuri because computers didn't exist, even though he has the ABILITY to in a given context. In this way actions are determined, but within those determinations you have choice.

This is the ultimate truth of choice, unchosen choice.

>>182276
Rabbitfield can babble all he wants about how there is no truth and we can know nothing of the absolute, but he can only do this through the mediation of his fingers on his keyboard and through his and our screens, through the labor that went into creating all those things, and Heyuri, the electricity and acid and mushrooms and food he eats. That is truth. Truth is the movement of things through space and through time, the reckoning of objective and subjective. A Thing in itself is not truth. A Thing for another is not truth. A Thing, as a whole, in itself and for another, is where truth lies.