The history you research and accept as truth is the farthest thing from the truth. Taaking a wild guess is just as accurate. All you have to do is wild guess better than the mercanary hstorians. When someone tell me to read more history I know he is in college or he collect history books from garage sales.
2007-12-07 06:32:30 · 4 answers · asked by Tom C 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
In my opinion, your premace is incorrect. I've not made any history myself, but I've seen a lot of it made in my 50+ years. The history I read on the subjects I've lived through seems to be pretty darn accurate.
Couple things to know about history:
1. It's written by the victors, not the loosers when you are studying wars.
2. Should you choose to not pay attention to history, you will be doomed to repeat it's mistakes.
2007-12-07 07:52:47 · answer #1 · answered by Pragmatism Please 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
While you go a little too far with your point, your are absolutely correct in that most of us are taught an oversimplified version of history that originates from a single perspective. Real historians, therefore, formulate their ideas by reading many different sources written from many different perspectives.
Still, if you weren't there, you'll never REALLY know what happened. You're a pretty deep thinker. You'd probably enjoy college...
2007-12-07 14:45:47 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
That's about the most silly argument for not doing your history homework I've heard in forty years.
2007-12-07 22:35:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bah, you don't know or understand history.
2007-12-07 15:29:47 · answer #4 · answered by glenn 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋