Studying, or learning about history is fun, but, it is also important. It teaches us about our past, humanities past, and can also give us clues about our future, or, what can happen if past events play out in the present.
If we are observant, and learn from history, then we can avoid making the same mistakes as our ancestors did. We can learn why we do what we do, e.g. why we have certain customs, traditions, holidays, and religions. We can learn and understand more about subjects like anthropology, sociology, and philosophy - as all the social sciences over lap each other, in one way or another. History, like anthropology, sociology, politics, and philosophy, should make us reflect on our societies, religions, customs, and traditions, it should make us question them, and it should make us reflect and ask ourselves if certain customs, traditions, religions, and so on, are really things which we should be practicing, or are they archaic, outdated, and irrelevant now. Reading history can help us learn about the wrong doings, and evils, done by humanity. Some in the name of religion, some in the name of politics, and some even in the name of atheism. Often religion has a free pass from criticism, yet, some of histories most atrocious activities have been carried out in the name of religion. Religion is an idea (set of ideas), it should be as accountable to criticism as any political belief. When immoral, or evil behavior is carried out, whether it is in the name of religion, or political ideology, the criticism should be the same. History should teach us that inappropriate ideas or practices should be condemn, no matter the guise it takes. To not be able to criticism ideas, political or religious, is when you have censorship, and even turning a blind eye to wrong doing. If history teaches us anything, it's that when we turn a blind eye, and fail to criticism ideas, practices, that are wrong, we create monsters, violence, and the persecution of people to have the freedom of thought, and the challenging of ideas, and beliefs. It's like what happened with Socrates, who was killed (or, forced suicide), for ''corrupting the youth'', through ideas, and challenging ideas, and thoughts. Philosophy is not history, but history should often be philosophy. In that we should be open, and free of thought. Unguided in thought. We should be allowed to be openly critical of any idea, or thought, regardless of the format it comes in. If you have an idea, thought, or ideology, surely it must be justifiable, and moral. Too often in the politically correct world, we are not allowed to challenge ideas, or beliefs, especially when they are religious, because we might ''offened'' people. Yet, challenging ideas, ideologies, is the only thing that has progressed society. Censorship of thought, and ideas, can often mean that things such as history can be fabricated, leaving the history to be either left out, or totally untrue. An example of that would be the history of the Native Americans, and how it is sometimes stated that the native were wiped out by diseases, and not genocide. Obviously with incoming Europeans, diseases would have killed Native Americas. It would be like going to the Rainforest of South America today, an uncontacted tribe would be deadly to them. However, clearly what happened in America through colonization was largely down to genocide, and not accidental. It could be regarded as ''offensive'' to report, and comment that genocide largely killed off the Native Americans, yet, in refusing to acknowledge that, and keep documentation of that is even more insulting, and wrong. It also means that we are refusing to document on what actually happened in those historical events, with a fabrication, a lie. History is important, because it shows use the dangers of censorship. And censorship is at odds with free thought, science, philosophy, social sciences, and history.
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