Is History Relavent to Todays Issues?

Ever since the wheel and fire were invented, nothing new had happened on Earth. History was and will repeat itself, with some slight changes, just to fit in present times. Since you like quotes from wise people, I'll add something from George Orwell. Not really a quote, but general idea of societies through the history. He wrote in "1984" that in every society in human history, there were two classes of people. Those who rule, and those whose been ruled upon. Ruling class tend to be conservative, and trying to keep things as they are. This causing gradual decay of moral and often physical state of ruling elite. On the opposite side, in majority that is ruled upon, periodically, a new class of people start to forming. As ruling class is getting weaker, this new group is getting proportionally stronger. They present themselves as progressive and promise to the masses that if they support them and help them to overturn ruling class, they will be better masters (to use the words from your first quote). And of course, since change is natural tendency, change of ruling elite will happened sooner or later, with more or less bloodshed. And that's what is happening now. Being conservative is your personal choice, but from my point of view is just futile. Never in history conservatives actually succeed in keeping the things unchanged, so I don't think that now will be any different. It's not that I'm very liberal, but I think that is more opportune to side with those who might win at the end. And trying to avoid unnecessary conflicts if it's possible.

Yes, it is relevant so that we will not commit the same mistakes so that we can enjoy the future.

Yes, always, but the problem is that many of us are misinformed or we easily believe what the politicians and people in the media tell us. I think that Mark Twain is right, then again, he was a smart man, and saw the hypocrisy. Our fore fathers were much more intelligent than many of us give them credit for. They knew what could happen if they did structure our government in a way where no one individual got too much power. There is a reason that we have Checks and Balances, but some people forget that we have this. No one group, or no one individual should ever get or have too much power. History is always relevant to today, and history can always repeat itself. Most people have no idea how close we are, or how close we have come, to having another Great Depression. People have no idea how close this country has come to going to war with countries that could have destroyed us (China, 'nuff said). We need to learn history so that we don't repeat it.

History should be considered and is very relevant today. What I worry about is that I see and hear a lot of very politically liberal view points being taught in public school and in most colleges. So I worry that a very biased history is being taught. When you add this to what appears to be a long standing liberal bias by most of national media, the fear is that a lot of young people are in effect brainwashed by the time they are old enough to participate in society. This makes them very susceptible to believing promises and lies that politician spew out to get elected when all these politicians are seeking is power.

Well, you know the old saying about those who don't pay attention to history are doomed to repeat it. We are in a scenario right now that's been repeated dozens of times throughout the ages as nations fell due to corruption and laziness. I love Mark Twain, he was so witty. What are people doing now that they think is original?

During the history, many persons did several mistakes, but also goog things has been done. We should learn history and from the mistakes others committed to try not to repeat the same ones and we also can learn from the good things to try to do similar. History is very important to me and, as I think,for everyone. Apart from this, it's also interesting to see how people lived in the passed without the inventions we have nowadays.

The Bible tells us there is nothing new under the sun. We are bound to repeat history if we don't know history and learn from it. But, liberals claim they can "do socialism better." Right. What works is capitalism. That is what made America great.

Apparently , we need to show concern about history in this international world now .If you are a American , you need to know something about Civil War ,which always cause problems between black people and the white people. It is easy to meet the racial discrimination in America,right ? Not only the black-white relation, but also white -yellow relation face vast problems . I think there are many reason ,but one of them must be history ,such as World War Two and War to Resist U.S.Aggression and aid Korea. They always make two or more contries on the horn of a delemma. Moverover , surely yellow -yellow relation faces many challeges now ,especially sovereign rights and historical deletion . Most of you may know Massacre in Nanjing, it's so horrible . You can imagine how difficult for a contry has 13 billion people to change their attitude toward an island contry. Time will see how these happen in the future .

History should be taught, unbiased. No patriotic crap.