history degrees bell curve :
idiot end : I don't use my history degree
middle : history degree is useless
genius end : I am the MP for Gloucestershire and the cabinet minister for business
this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2024
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I've been working through a few biographies of the top brass of Nazidom, and even with the rather perfunctory understanding I've gained from these books of Hitler's seizure of power and all that followed in Nazi Germany, my ears are pricking up in horror every day as I listen to the latest news from around the world. And I'm not even going so far as the Holocaust. If the Holocaust and WWII never happened, the Nazi regime would still have been an unmitigated nightmare.
The language certain politicians are using is plucked directly from the mouths of Goebbels' and Himmler's rotting corpses. How can they not see what lies ahead if they continue with this shit? We know how this story ends. We have examples of it from recent memory, we don't even need to cast our minds back to the 1930s π€·β
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Weird, that's also the only thing my Politic Science degree has ever gotten me!
Boy I sure do love living through historical events that will likely end up in textbooks in the future
Bold of you to presume that people will be allowed to read about these times, in the future:-).
That's why I said they'll likely be in textbooks, no guarantee lol
Fair enough!:-)
My history teacher said that the greatest curse you can give someone is telling them "May you live in interesting times" and boy do I feel that now.
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History majors rise up
I really have begun to believe that politicians should employ historians to give advice on certain political events by drawing comparisons to previous situations.
That only really works in a benevolent dictatorship. In a democracy, the masses can vote for reality-rejection candidates.
It's a pity democracy seems to be better than all the alternatives in practice, cause in principle there should be ways to improve things more. Inevitably though all other forms turn into draconian crap. Well, democracy does sometimes too, but less often.
What's odd about today's "democracy" is how increasingly little government itself matters, next to corporations that are stronger than nations.
It's like democracy is the least bad system...
A well crafted political system is one that stays uncorrupted the longest (or can recover less violently from corruption).
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Hegel remarks somewhere[*] that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce
Something something heglian dialectics, something something new vegas, something something "Fuck caesar,blow his ass away, and Legate Lanius too"
This fantastic opening quote must have also been Marx's weirdest flex.
As someone who consumes a lot of ancient history, it can also make you like βAh yes, another city rises, another is displaced by climate disaster, and another falls due to land mismanagement. βTis the way of things.β
Civilizations of a heirarchal centralized type definitely feel like temporary abberations, after reading Graeber and Wengrow
Nonsense, I look on Ozymandias, king of kings' works daily and despair!
I was literally thinking about this poem moments ago.
It's one of the greats.
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Same. I havenβt used my history degree at all. It has just enabled the βoh, fuckβ overdrive in my brain over the last several years. I hate it.
Well you know what "they" say: those who study their history - FUCK! - still end up repeating it, when nobody else around does the same.:-(
Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Those who do learn from history are doomed to look on helplessly as everybody else repeats it.
And due to such things as gerrymandering, we all get to share in the outcome.
Another thing that "they" say:
A stitch in time saves nine
It is not for me to judge exactly, who was not quite there, but very little of what has been done has been performed in secret. People have been watching, and yes even warning us, every step of the way. Now, people are shocked, Shocked I say, SHOCKED, but... we should not be. We all knew, or at least were warned, about the consequences, we simply chose to ignore it all.
e.g. Brexit looks to be something that can never be undone - as in even if it were technically to be done, the UK will never hold such a place of prominence again. It will fade into obscurity, eventually counting itself lucky to join the EU on whatever terms the latter will choose to dictate at that time.
And the USA looks likely to not survive to see that happen - in its current form at least. Assuming that Trump loses the upcoming election, which seems still roughly 50% at this juncture, the Supreme Court shenanigans, the absolute, I mean near-total brokenness of Congress, and the very next election in little more than 4 years time still await. And this time, whoever sits atop the Executive Branch will have the legal authority to assassinate all of their political rivals. Like Brexit, this is by no means over and done, and we can still go so much lower from here.:-(
Which might not be such a bad thing after all, to replace a broken system with a better one, but I do worry about this transition period.
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