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-==== How to Use Your Textbook ​====+==== How to Use This History  ​====
  
-Your textbook ​//Then, Now and How// is not a linear or monolithic narrative. ​Rather, it is in the form of a [[the-grid|grid]] or patchwork that can be read horizontally,​ vertically, or at random. ​+//Then, Nowand How// is not a linear or monolithic narrative. ​The [[the-grid|Index/​Contents page]]  is in the form of a grid or patchwork that can be read horizontally,​ vertically, or at random. ​So you can let curiosity be your guide, and create your own narrative.  ​
  
 One dimension of the grid is chronological:​ **Then** (2018), **Now** (2118) and **How** (the decades of struggle between). ​ The other is topical. The dozen or so topics present the major problems facing humanity in 2018. One dimension of the grid is chronological:​ **Then** (2018), **Now** (2118) and **How** (the decades of struggle between). ​ The other is topical. The dozen or so topics present the major problems facing humanity in 2018.
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 Reading horizontally,​ we present a series of critical problems that plagued humans living under a decaying capitalist order in the early 21st century (**Then**) and sketch out the ways in which they were resolved and transcended (**How**), arriving at today'​s early-22nd-century democratic, egalitarian and just societies (**Now**).  ​ Reading horizontally,​ we present a series of critical problems that plagued humans living under a decaying capitalist order in the early 21st century (**Then**) and sketch out the ways in which they were resolved and transcended (**How**), arriving at today'​s early-22nd-century democratic, egalitarian and just societies (**Now**).  ​
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