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You are right, very little can be learned from history, IMO. We get a very skewed and biased view of history on anything that matters. If you want an example,
by feralimal 6y ago
You are right, very little can be learned from history, IMO.
We get a very skewed and biased view of history on anything that matters.
If you want an example, take a look at star forts. These forts are often beautiful. And they are all over the world - UK, US (the statue of Liberty has one for its base), Canada, Japan, Russia. They are least 3-400 years old. I never learnt about these in school. But there they are. Who built them? Why did they build them like that?
http://starforts.com/ http://starforts.com/
- InfiniteRand 6y agoThat link has a very reasonable theory about the why "The design of the starfort did away with "dead zones," or areas in which an attacker cannot be brought under fire, by the use of triangular bastions which command all approaches."
- feralimal 6y agoYes - but which society created all these similarly designed forts 100s of years ago, across the world? They weren't thrown up by a small group of pilgrims - they were brilliantly engineered and took effort to make. But I didn't learn anything about these castles at school. And we did do castles in history - it was my favourite thing. So what are we missing or misunderstanding.