THE VIRUS OF PROGRESS #6

Before Columbus… [many researches believed that] …both the people and the land had no real history. Stated so baldly, this notion – that the indigenous peoples of the Americas floated changelessly through the millennia until 1492 – may seem ludicrous. But flaws in perspective often appear obvious only after they are pointed out [and can take]…decades to rectify.

• Charles C. Mann, 1491