History Teaches Very Little, But It Sure Is Interesting

by Rolf | History | 1716 Views

Here is a short article  from the Vermont Phoenix.

In Brattleboro, in the year 1909.  there were a rash of robberies, and no suspects. . . .

Comments | 3

  • Submitted by Rolf on May 10, 2014 at 5:39 pm

    Whooops

    That article was actually from the Bennington Banner.

    My error.

  • Submitted by cgrotke on May 11, 2014 at 10:03 am

    Relativity

    Seven in one month!

    (The story is down near the bottom, middle the page, for those searching for it.)

    I disagree that history teaches very little, though. It teaches almost everything. Try explaining anything without referencing the past. Everything today rests on what was done before, good and bad.

    And, it sure is interesting.

    • Submitted by Rolf on May 12, 2014 at 8:02 am

      My resistance to the supposed lesson

      My resistance to the supposed lesson is two fold. The first that the past is sometimes used to deny the possibility of a different future and indeed to confine that future, by those who sometimes want to maintain the current state of affairs.

      The other reason is that I have a hard science orientation, and don’t believe in the ability of social “scientists” to describe a given situation accurately, never mind find a true replicate. Without replicates, very little can be said definitively.

      But, I steered to the right of Sting, who famously sang, “History Teaches Nothing” which is just silly.

      Have your day be so good that it is historically speaking, great.

      Rolf

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