Persepolis

But in the end, what difference does it make?
Persepolis burned, and Fallujah is emptied.

All that remains of once mighty Persepolis are a few columns and arches. What happened here? Us humans always feel compelled to give a narrative for anything that happens in our lives and the lives of others we know or the things we observe. Some call in storytelling, others call it lawyering. Regardless of the nomenclature we adopt, this is a phenomenon that has been prevalent since the first written texts and perpetuated by the very fact that our knowledge base is built on such prior texts. We all know that these writings are inherently subjective narratives and yet we choose to ignore this fact, instead deeming persons well versed in such prior texts as intellectuals. Even Herodotus, the great grand father of historical texts beings his masterpiece with "To preserve a memory of the deeds of the Greeks and barbarians, and in particular beyond everything else, to give a cause to their fighting one another". Nothing has changed since then; when will we ever learn?