Grumble 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 on Nostr: So your gripe is that the people and events presented in the book offend you. Fair ...

So your gripe is that the people and events presented in the book offend you. Fair enough - humans being assholes is timeless, and fierce struggles bring out the extremes of human behavior. We all get a lot of assholery on the news every day, and it's hard to swallow more from a history book.

“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.” - Confucius

I'm not smart enough to rely on reflection, but I'm lazy enough to prefer imitation over experience. I read history to learn what worked, what didn't work, and to get ideas about how to proceed.