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Understanding one's past is understanding one's future.
by spookie 2y ago
Understanding one's past is understanding one's future.
- boznz 2y agoHistory has been pretty well uncovered, whether people listen to it and learn its lessons is another matter (schools certainly don't teach it unless it is how the white male oppressors fucked over everyone and it is the cause of all the worlds evils). Most historical debate these days is also pretty subjective, egos-versus-egos for clicks and likes (and research money) Don't get me started on the subjective biases of social "science"
- UncleMeat 2y ago> History has been pretty well uncovered This is just absolutely factually wrong and betrays a total lack of understanding of the field. History manuscripts are released constantly that are investigating and discussing contents of the archive that have been sitting in a box unexamined since the time of their creation. Even if you take the outrageously limited view of history that it just exists to document the past, we make significant progress constantly. There's also no research money in the field for egos to squabble over. Research grants for historians are regularly in the "couple of thousand dollars" range.
- boznz 2y agoI wish I could agree, and happy to be shot down but I am not seeing anything that is not just a re-interpretation of current facts to make history sound nicer. there has certainly been nothing uncovered this century that has changed anything and I mean anything important about the current world and the original article was about economic benefits to our country which there frankly are none. Subjective "research" IMHO is a waste of taxpayer dollars when objective research is still underfunded.
- UncleMeat 2y agoCan you list four or five monographs published in the past two years that you've read?
- akoboldfrying 2y agoCan you list any that have had an impact in the world that non-historians inhabit?
- nprateem 2y agoLol SF has woken up. Yes and developing new commercially viable tech pays for one's future.
- spookie 2y agoI ain't even on the same continent. But do you really think state sponsored research gets you commercial success? I wonder if there is a better way?