Habit deafens

We tend to see history as something alien to us, events recorded in books and documentaries that seem to happen to great figures. Despite this, every seemingly unimportant gesture, every object and everyday detail that fills our days is the product of centuries, even millennia, of events and innovations that have repeatedly changed the world.

Throughout any given day, we will explore some of the stories hidden behind our breakfasts, our workdays, or our relationships. We will discover that many of the things we take for granted weren’t always so, and that there was even a time when doctors advised against bathing or when people would die even when surrounded by potatoes, corn, or wheat, for example.

Like peeling an onion, we will reveal the layers of wonder hidden beneath the most routine reality, the one we have stopped perceiving because, as Samuel Beckett said in Waiting for Godot, “habit deafens.”