“MAN is a pattern-seeking mammal,” a friend once declared to me. He was commenting on my predilection to explain away current social phenomena along principles or patterns proven true in bygone eras. History, in my perception, does not take place in a vacuum as a spontaneous happening, as in the case of a sudden inexplicable big bang that gave birth to a universe. As I taught my history class years ago, history is made. And the makers of history are creatures who just can’t shake off biases endemic in their particular social standpoints.
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