2024-08-01
1 小时 37 分钟It's hardcore history.
There are two kinds of people that listen to this podcast.
One group are history fans.
The other group are people who are in the process of becoming history fans.
And so I'd like to talk to them for a minute.
History fans already know what I'm going to say here.
But it's an interesting aspect of why the past in terms of a field of study should matter to us today.
We exist in a time period where The value of a history education, for example,
among several humanities slash social science disciplines are sort of at a low ebb because a whole bunch of factors,
including people who come out of college with huge student loans they have to pay back,
is geared towards trying to maximize the investment that was your university education, which is totally understandable.
But it causes us to sort of look too knee-jerk at...
The connection between education and earning potential, right?
You study computer science, you get out, you have a job,
as opposed to you become a more formidable person by immersing yourself in the humanities,
which helps you in a whole bunch of ways as life requires you to adapt over and over again.
I understand people devalue it, and maybe those subjects are not the same as they used to be.
But there was always a practical value to learning about things like history,
although not always in the way non-history fans assume.
Again, history fans already know this.