Don't our traditional forms of information communication, notably "the book" and especially "the textbook" contribute to our belief in linear history?
I do believe that "the book" and "the textbook" contribute to our belief in linear history because a textbook shows all the events that have happened in the past up till now. Linear history shows all the historical events from the beginning all the way to an end, and there are no patterns. This is shown in textbooks because the books show events that have happened many, many years ago to relatively recently events like the attack on the twin towers, and the textbooks just show them in one straight "timeline". Most information communications show history in this form because I think it would be the easiest way to record and talk about all of the important historical events in the most simple way.
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