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Quote by: Rainbow  Congratulations.
You have finally realized what politics seems to be all about, and that applies to all the fields within a particular system.
It is better late than never. |
Yep, well it was about ok, how old am i now? About 7 years ago, luckily for me, just in time to have a clear head going into the Bush Years.
And I can't tell if you were being hostile in your words? Sorry... perpetual war does make me paranoid...
All in all, it is an easy thing to grasp but a nearly impossible thing to understand. Politics and the development of nations is a system with perhaps nearly infinite variables. And political history is so much different from even military history, which has nothing at all to do with intellectual history which leads to an easier understanding of social history.
With the facts of political and military, you have a foundation for understanding the thoughts of the people who lived during the time by understanding the ideologies that were present. Which then sub-categorizes into the legal history created by the ideologies and precedents from the traditional past, as stated by political. and so on.
Gah!! Anyway, in my rambling way, I'm just saying that the only way to meet the present is to know our past... but there is so much information that it is sometimes difficult to interpret it all. I think it might be why some people don't even try? Or, they think, in America at least as that's my only real reference, that History is just the dry bullsh#t they were taught in high school, aka, the class that was the easiest to sleep through. It's very, very sad that the government decided to teach it this way, but also very practical to their purpose.