All signs point in the direction of the galactic story. Terrestrial history as part of a continuing extra terrestrial story. Listening to the galactic historians impart their understanding and knowledge provides a much more coherent narrative than the limited ones which come from human history.
To begin to place myself effectively in a world where a massive collective insanity very much appears to be playing out in real time, there is a big need for an ability to accurately assess what’s really going on here. And what’s animating these agents in power to make them able to do so much incredible inhuman harm.