I understand engaging with history if you find it entertaining like mythology or when ragebaiting people, but a lot of you on here spend so much time and effort on threads about history.
You are trusting historians (random strangers) who research documents claimed to be written by the primary sources (random strangers who have been dead for 1000 years). A 1000 year long chain of "trust me bro".
History is simply dismissible.
I'm not saying Napoleon didn't exist, I'm saying his existence is unreliable and thus dismissible. His life story can't be confirmed, so it is meaningless. You've never met him, you've never met the people who wrote about him, you've never met the historian who repackaged those writings into a cohesive text.
Let me take this critique to an extreme. You can't even know anything about your own direct ancestors. Their life stories are also dismissible.
I can't know anything about my great-grandfather. I know he existed because logic tells me that in order for me to exist I must've had a great-grandfather. That's as far as I can possibly know about him. Any information I may have on him comes from my family. I am trusting them. It is a belief, I am putting my faith in them, it is like a religion.
Who knows? They might be liars. Maybe they've overexaggerated some details to feel more proud of their heritage. I will never know. But unlike with history, I have a reason to trust my family's information on my great-grandfather, because my family cares about me and has less of an incentive to lie.
You don't know historians, you don't know the historical figures, as far as you know, neither exist, and if they do, you have no reason to believe they have your best interest in mind.
The same people on here who cry "The elites have manipulated us through media" will be history-nuts simply because the history they've been taught gives them an identity. They're proud of their "based heritage".
"I wanna be like the based nazis!"
"My people were crusaders, and we will do it again!"
You're just roleplaying, you're no different from an anime cosplayer.
You are trusting historians (random strangers) who research documents claimed to be written by the primary sources (random strangers who have been dead for 1000 years). A 1000 year long chain of "trust me bro".
History is simply dismissible.
I'm not saying Napoleon didn't exist, I'm saying his existence is unreliable and thus dismissible. His life story can't be confirmed, so it is meaningless. You've never met him, you've never met the people who wrote about him, you've never met the historian who repackaged those writings into a cohesive text.
Let me take this critique to an extreme. You can't even know anything about your own direct ancestors. Their life stories are also dismissible.
I can't know anything about my great-grandfather. I know he existed because logic tells me that in order for me to exist I must've had a great-grandfather. That's as far as I can possibly know about him. Any information I may have on him comes from my family. I am trusting them. It is a belief, I am putting my faith in them, it is like a religion.
Who knows? They might be liars. Maybe they've overexaggerated some details to feel more proud of their heritage. I will never know. But unlike with history, I have a reason to trust my family's information on my great-grandfather, because my family cares about me and has less of an incentive to lie.
You don't know historians, you don't know the historical figures, as far as you know, neither exist, and if they do, you have no reason to believe they have your best interest in mind.
The same people on here who cry "The elites have manipulated us through media" will be history-nuts simply because the history they've been taught gives them an identity. They're proud of their "based heritage".
"I wanna be like the based nazis!"
"My people were crusaders, and we will do it again!"
You're just roleplaying, you're no different from an anime cosplayer.
