Why the Fuck Should I Learn Anything About History?

Ok, so, there seem to be a TON of people out there that wonder "Why should I know anything about history, we are in the year 2014 and we are awesome".

Well, that is a VERY ignorant position to take. Most of the people that took the time to write things down throughout history were pretty damn smart, and even if they didn't have the technology we have today, the human brain has not really had any evolution for at least 10,000 years if not longer. So the people that were writing books and figuring out the world 2,000 years ago were actually probably smarter than a LOT of people that are alive today. But they did not have smart phones, they did not have apps, they did not have the internet, they did not have access to global libraries and social media. YOU DO.

You do have access to all these things. So what you can do now, is figure out what geniuses were talking about thousands of years ago, and apply it to all the modern technology that is available now.

So basically, you don't have to be a genius to be a genius, you just have to apply the genius by proxy.

Btw, if you want to be able to read ANY politician, or be a politician yourself, just read some Cicero.

You don't need to, it's at your fingertip when you need it. people don't have to think as much anymore, computers do that ...

That's why people are getting lazy and fat as shit ..

dux said:

You don't need to, it's at your fingertip when you need it. people don't have to think as much anymore, computers do that ...

That's why people are getting lazy and fat as shit ..

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History is not the same as math. We can't just expect computers to calculate what we have done and how we can do it again better, or in a new situation but to still solve a similar problem.

Finshaggy said:

Btw, if you want to be able to read ANY politician, or be a politician yourself, just read some Cicero.

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alas, in the end, Octavian needed his gelt

sticky business, that Late Republic..........

And if you want to know more about law than you ever wanted to know, read a Book of Legal Maxims and do a Search for "Common Law".

This yo thread!!

its important to know that 9/11 was an inside job and the redshields killed jfk

vro said:

its important to know that 9/11 was an inside job and the redshields killed jfk

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kill that man........