Both of these notions are simplistic and ahistorical, and I'll try to argue that they're shortsighted. |
The immediacy of violence and the reaction of artists were in some part ahistorical focusing instead on the universal and timeless viscerality. |
The English regions are, by comparison, ahistorical, nebulously conceived, arbitrarily imposed. |
Numerous ahistorical Buddhas make an appearance in Mahyna literature, notably the five Jinas who are popular in tantric schools. |
It's collective guilt selectively applied, a concept of Original Sin limited to certain time-zones and complexions, and weirdly ahistorical. |
Colonial apologists have often used this ahistorical narrative to celebrate the advent of colonialism. |