I am sorry Rex and Karl to differ with you. How many more skeletons do historians need to examine ? Surely they have seen enough skeletons now to know that we eat more sugar now than they did 250 years ago. I am afraid that I am not convinced about learning much that is useful in history either. Interesting though it may be.
One only needs to look at the appalling antics of Hitler’s and Stalin’s regimes, the dreadful goings on in Cambodia, Rwanda and Bosnia and the desperate cruelty of ISIS and all that---and more---- happened in yours and mine’s( not sure about your age Karl) lifetime! I certainly question how much has been learnt from the past.
As you rightly say what really happened 200 years ago is often based on facts that were unreliable then and have been adjusted ever since. Even with the considerable reliable evidence of what really happened since 1939 I see, depressing though it is, scant evidence that the human race in general has learnt anything useful from history about mans behaviour to their fellow human beings.
Last edited by Jock Scot; 8th September 19 at 03:36 AM.
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