HISTORY

Why does it matter to know what happened 50+ years ago? Didn't Hegel say we learn from history that we do not learn from history? Hegel is a philosopher, a professional liar. His goal is to distract you from the importand truth. He does seem correct, at first glance. Nobody learns from history, even the guys who read it all, can't get anything useful out of it. Why? Because they haven't read history. They've read mythology, a comic book with some pictures, lots of dates and names, pseudo-smart explanations in between. Whenever historians are too lazy to explain something or it's just unexplainable crazy absurd, they bring up words like genius, great, disaster, plague, crisis, etc.:

• Why was Napoleon so successful? He was a genious! Alexander the Great? Genius! Julius Caesar? Genius! - well, that teaches me I'm no genious :(
• How could Roman Empire be destroyed by tribes of savages? Empire was weakened by a multi-century crisis! - this makes as much sense as an old tank was so rusty that wind blew it away
• Why was European population growing so slow in medieval!? Plagues! Smallpox! Child mortality! - no, I think it was aliens, either illegal or space ones, I'm not sure

One can't learn from this kind of history. As a matter of fact this kind of knowledge damages your brain. It wires it wrong. Imagine math teacher who teaches you facts like 2 * 2 = 5.4567, or parallel lines intersect in about a mile on a sunny day and only half a mile away in winter. We do hear lots of fairy tales, that's OK, until the fairy tales are used to define our lives. History is exactly what defines politics, economy, religion and culture of our society. Looking at how bad is the history we are taught, I have some BAD news for you. It's not that Attila the Hun threatens Dow Jones index. It's the fact that government pays somebody to sell us story of Attila the Hun, - that's what is worth of attention. If you are taught that some impossible/absurd bad stuff happens for no apparent reason, there must be a reason for that.

Another problem is that there is no 2 * 2 = 4 anywhere. Why? I guess to sell you absurd they sell instead. Fake history is used to justify politics:

• Step 1: convince people that in the past they were A, faught B, lived around C, worshiped D
• Step 2: convince people that their life sucks because they do stuff different now
• Step 3: sell them A, C, D at a price way above fair, and make them fight B, if it suits you, as a bonus

This is literally story of how modern states Greece and Israel were created. Greeks got a better deal, at least nobody kills them from time to time. Jews exchanged European realty for desert-heat. I wonder if they were told there will be antisemitism in the promised land too. You can make people do anything if you convince them this is what everybody (or their ancestors in particular) did. People are natural conservatives - "tried and true" sells well. If it's made of white marble, you can totally trust it:

History is more important for the government than politicians or church. History is what legitimates power. People believe in Democracy because very smart Ancient Greeks practiced it and revolutionaries fought for it. These are used to justify the power of the Government. Surprise fact: modern Democracy has nothing to do with the Ancient Greek one (if it ever existed), because 99% of Government is not elected. Also, democracy was practiced by all primitive societies we know and converted to monarchy later, because elected government is not stable enough. Would there be as many christians if they taught in school the actual origins and age of Christianity?

History is the actual Bible of today. That is why it's full of miracles. "The Father of History" Herodotus claimed 1207 Persian ships at Battle of Salamis and 2,600,000 large Persian army. His "children" on Mughals: 911,400–4,049,097 infantries ... 342,696–15,000,000 cavalries. We were tought in school of multi-hundred thousand hordes of Mongols, today they are down to 105,000. Cortes started with 50 men, now it's 500. Discovery of Elephantine Papyri made Jewish scholars shift Torah creation closer to our times by centuries. You might think this is a progress but it's not. They are just fixing the mythology to make it look more realistic, yet it is still a mythology.