History books often jump though 100 or 1,000 years like it's nothing/encapsulated into a few key events. Most of us won't even get past 85 years old. We're barely significant. amirite?

+143 History books often jump though 100 or 1,000 years like it's nothing/encapsulated into a few key events. Most of us won't even get past 85 years old. We're barely significant. amirite?

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I disagree with you. Our history continues to get more well documented, and past history was not well known

by Anonymous 2 years ago

That's not totally true, if you talk about medieval time yes, but we have a lot of documents of the last centuries.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

That is a significant part of the problem. And yes, I have a history degree.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

You're reading the wrong texts then…. By history books do you mean high school history books? Because that's Uncle Sam teaching you history and I assure you that's not how history went

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Yup, US education is basically: "here's like 5 things that happened in the 1700s. Here's like 3 things from the 1800s. Oh and for the 1900s we'll go ahead and break that down by decades even though we didn't do that for the previous 400 years."

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Well.... high school US history books have a lot to get through, in 180 days. You can't get much into 1700 rebellions and repeated economic crashes in the 1800s when you have the big events to cover. And that's just learning facts, if you want to discuss the how's and why's of big events, now you have even less time.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

I'd say it's not that they don't have time but that they spend time horribly. I vividly remember full hours of class just sitting down and writing up/filling out outlines that we'd use on tests that didn't even end up following the outlines. Add in a bunch of movie days, random parties, and of course, the days that the teacher decides he just wants to give us unwarranted and unwanted life advice for an hour. Or the teacher that thinks he's at a standup gig and just talks about his life in a joking manner for an hour. Ugh. High school sucked lol

by Anonymous 2 years ago

No wonder people are like "why is everyone upset over Ukrainian?" Well know your past and the present becomes so much clearer

by Anonymous 2 years ago

You got that right.. we're as significant as a grain of sand on a beach. Our entire existence happens in the blink of an eye…

by Anonymous 2 years ago

not an actual human eye but a gigantous huge gigantic super cosmic big eye

by Anonymous 2 years ago