[ExI] jarring change

[Dylan Distasio]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 11:41 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> I hate history because there were no theories presented to try to make
> sense of the things we were supposed to memorize.  I can remember ideas
> just fine:  names, dates, places, not so much.  Huge waste of time for
> something one can always look up.
>

You didn't have a good history teacher if there was no overarching theme to
tie it all together.  I love history as a complete hobby at this point, but
a great history book (or educator) will tie it all together somehow through
their particular lens.   I will admit that I generally try to read
histories written before 1960 (give or take) because I find anything done
beyond that point frequently has an overt agenda behind it (and I don't
mean that in the positive way I mean it above).   I still read newer
histories as well because they are frequently updated with the latest
archaeological knowledge which may change things greatly, but it's very
easy to see any bias in newer works.   Of course, even the older works have
their own biases but I generally find the quality in general much higher in
terms of writing and framing.
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