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    should all history books be destroyed and forgotten?

    Why would I not want there to be? I haven't come across such a study and I've even searched on the internet for one, without any luck. Even Modern History degree courses over here are predominantly focused on pre-WWII events. OK, I should have made it clear that people would merely be...
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    should all history books be destroyed and forgotten?

    It's true that a lot of bias exists in the historical record, if it didn't exist there would be no historians because the hard yards would already be done! This doesn't mean that getting to the truth is an impossible task. Heraclitus certainly has a very negative view of the Persians as do many...
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    should all history books be destroyed and forgotten?

    It's not a statistic but an estimate. I doubt any study has been done to find the proportion of 'video-era' history compared to the opposite, but considering video evidence would be pretty scant before WWII I think the estimate would be fairly accurate. Your arguments so far have been...
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    should all history books be destroyed and forgotten?

    Am I not allowed to comment on other posts you make? I gave you my opinion on what he meant, and I turned out to be correct because I found his statement to be easy to comprehend. This certain part of history happens to include an era accounting for well over 90% of historical study, as well...
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    should all history books be destroyed and forgotten?

    I wasn't speaking for him, I made that obvious when I added 'it's pretty clear to me'. I didn't believe that lewisnotmiller was calling you ignorant in the first place so your other point about it being an insult to you is irrelevant. He's also made that pretty clear since then. There's little...
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    should all history books be destroyed and forgotten?

    I don't want to speak for lewisnotmiller, but it's pretty clear to me that he wasn't calling you ignorant. He was saying that if you had your wish then people would be ignorant of history, and that you think this is somehow a good thing. Anyway, saying someone is ignorant isn't necessarily an...
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    should all history books be destroyed and forgotten?

    I'm not religious, the spread of Christianity was just an example of how people would remain to be curious about these things. If you're not interested then fine, but you cannot speak for the whole of humanity, the very existence of history as a discipline is testament to mankind's will to learn...
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    should all history books be destroyed and forgotten?

    One further comment on this: What makes you think I'm not critical about sources on the Romans, the Greeks or any period of history for that matter? For anyone writing a PhD thesis on history it is a matter of duty to be critical, not just of ancient sources and evidence but of modern...
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    should all history books be destroyed and forgotten?

    Of course the world has changed drastically, no-one would argue with that, however it's useful to be able to look at historic failures, for example because we can learn a lot from their experiences. What's more, many people are interested in how things came to be as they are now. If we stick...
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    should all history books be destroyed and forgotten?

    Hi, I'm new here, well a long-time lurker who finally got spurred into activity by this thread! Having a PhD in history probably has something to do with it ;). There are so many points made by kloth that I have issue with that I barely know where to start, so i'll pick up from the last...
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