Something else that fascinates me about history is how we treat history in the present.
Different people (sometimes groups of people) use a specific version of history in their benefit. Or mistakenly interpret things wrong, without knowing.
Clearly we’ve arrived in an era where people appreciate terms as ‘history’ and the ‘current state of affairs’ in a totally different way. Because of an overload of (badly sourced) information. We believe what compliments our world view and the (social) media provides us more of that. It’s creating our own vicious circle paradox. But you don’t see that until you realize that this is the system we’ve created and we insist on fueling every time we use that same (social) media.
Your opportunity is to ever seek perspective. Not to treat any event as ‘good’ or ‘bad’. But see anything you hear or read as a given, treat it without judgment. Use it as a beautiful map to teach you moral, and how to invest your effort.
There’s this huge opportunity to find that in history.