you'd probably have to find several by different tyoes of people, to make sure you aren't reading a biased account :p
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Exactly, depending on the world/kingdom/government you’d find yourself in, the local history books may be propaganda.
Even so, you may not have the real truth, but you'll know what you need to navigate the society you are currently in.
Hot take, but the propagandized version would likely be better, since your goal is to find out the present day conditions rather than actual history. What a government wants its citizens to think (and more importantly, how it expects them to behave) is probably more important than finding out actual details of history that early in your stay.
Perhaps even written by Victoria.
The idea traveling to a other demension and reading something that is dramatically different there your dimensions history only to later find out, no, that guy was just a moron, and now you look like one too, is very funny to me.
I'm imagining our intrepid hero coming off a bender and to the conclusion that they're in a different dimension. In their efforts to educate themselves about their new world they unwittingly fall fully for conspiracy YouTube videos; what a magical and strange world they've found themselves in.
If your only goal is to find out the current culture of the place you're currently in, the biased one would likely be better.
First thing you do is find a public library. If the concept of a public library exists in this reality, you're likely not completely fucked.
If there is no public library, and no one has ever heard of one, you are DEFINITELY fucked.
what if all they have are libraries, the concept of one not being public is alien to them
Then you've won the dimensional jackpot and you should immediately start trying to thwart any misguided attempts from folks in your original dimension to "rescue" you.
Librarism is such a fun utopian ideal. Need a computer? Go check on out. Need a shovel, go check one out. Etc etc
but instead of selling a couple of shovels for a whole community, what if we discourage sharing so everyone who ever needs one has to buy one.
So inefficient but profitable
I've always thought each town needs perhaps a few dozen lawnmowers. I bet someone would forget to return it though.
I always thought the library near where I grew up would be a near ideal environment during a zombie apocalypse. It was a repository of knowledge and entertainment, of course; it was in a fairly small city, meaning that while there might be more zombies than in the countryside, there wouldn't be as many as in a large city - but there would be resources nearby; there was an armory nearby; there was only one relatively-easily-fortified entrance (to my knowledge); and it had a fully enclosed courtyard which, while it ended up being kind of depressing in real life, could give you a garden in a theoretical apocalypse.
The first and last were most of what I considered when I was a kid.
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Not sure how many people in this dimension have read one.
(Obvious comment is obvious)
I can think of 77 Million who haven't.
I'm sure they've read the Bill Cooper collected works.
Most people wouldn't even know they are in a different dimension. If you aren't well versed in the history of your home, then you're just learning new historical facts.
"Huh, I didn't know Hitler and Einstein were married. Weird."
Yeah fuck food or clean water, let's read
See, this is why the history book is important. Yeah in your dimension they have sex with the food and have to physically scrub the water clean, but here in our dimension for the most part people eat the food and just make sure the water is clean by boiling.
I think their Wikipedia might be better than a history book at this point
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An history book and common sense can help you get a place to stay.
Checks to see if it's titled Bearinstein Bears or Barenstain Bears
Or Berenstain, like in this dimension.
"Al, I need to leap again."
Can I come, too? There has to be one where Trump isn't president.
how you gon read alternate dimension language?
That it's an alternate dimension doesn't mean that the language isn't semiinteligible
How do you read anything in a dimension where oral tradition rules and writing isn’t even a thing.
Reading history books is the right thing to do, in every dimension you are
Don't forget to bring a towel.
Like looking at a git log when you clone a new repo.
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You should read Job: A Comedy of Justice by Robert Heinlein. This is basically the main theme
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Go to an alternate dimension
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Immediately look for a history book
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Find one
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It's in French
First you have to realise you infact are in alternate dimension.
Easy. Just look for how to spell "Berenstain Bears".
That's not how it's spe..
..wait a minute!!
Make sure to assume it's all propaganda as well
The printing press is a very new invention in our universe. Before then books were for the rich. Often too history is written by the victors and so it missing a lot of important details that might or might not matter.
Come to think of it intelligent life such as could write books seems to be new. (but we have no ability to detect life elsewhere if it exists so who knows)
I'd go with water.
Sorry the dimension you've been transported to has laws of physics that don't allow water to exist.
Which means you've got a few precious seconds to get yourself home before you violently erupt as your water molecules each individually break apart in to hydrazine.
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If you end up in an actual alternate dimension: read the future book.
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