Kaitlyn’s Reviews > Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection > Status Update

Restarted on 3/17.

“But I wonder if we also ignore illness because of our bias toward agency and control. We would like to imagine that we captain the ships of our lives, that human history is largely the history of human choice…But history, alas, is not merely a record of what we do but also a record of what is done to us.”

“But I wonder if we also ignore illness because of our bias toward agency and control. We would like to imagine that we captain the ships of our lives, that human history is largely the story of human choice.”

“I do not know what it feels like to grow up in a safe and stable village in southern Sierra Leon, but I know the joy of being woven into the social fabric, feeling a part of the world rather than apart from it.”

“In general, colonial infrastructure was not built to strengthen communities, it was built to deplete them.”

“Looking at history through any single lens creates distortions because history is too complex for any one way of looking to suffice.”

“Nothing is so privileged as thinking history belongs to the past.”