I can't believe such a politically charged community is honestly asking "why history matters". The reason history matters is because we can better understand today's problems by knowing what lead up to them. In a democracy, knowledge of history is one, if not the, most important tools at our disposal. It is important that we know the straight dope so that the government can't come every 8 years and tell us that such and such country has always been evil and that we should hate them or some other country is great. I don't see how anyone can honestly expect to function in a republic without knowing history.
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Some guy writes "Man Apple made a mistake and should have made their OS generic to PCs" and we treat it like its a new proposition. Welcome to 1990.
I can't believe such a politically charged community is honestly asking "why history matters". The reason history matters is because we can better understand today's problems by knowing what lead up to them. In a democracy, knowledge of history is one, if not the, most important tools at our disposal. It is important that we know the straight dope so that the government can't come every 8 years and tell us that such and such country has always been evil and that we should hate them or some other country is great. I don't see how anyone can honestly expect to function in a republic without knowing history.