Power users and mods just keep repeating: “History is not a science because culture (i.e., god) is all-powerful. We might use evidence but we distrust grand theories.”
Power users and mods just keep repeating: “History is not a science because culture (i.e., god) is all-powerful. We might use evidence but we distrust grand theories.”
that sub is usually ok, but the annoying thing about it is if you write a massive wall of text and use whatever sources, you can say whatever unhinged shit and it’s treated like the word of god.
They just keep saying the same shit over and over again. I thought I was crazy to write that liberal historians have regressed to a pre-Enlightenment state and just replaced “god” with “culture,” but r/askhistorians is saying “yeah, that’s actually exactly what we do, and we’re proud of it!”
No scientist would ever say “it’s impossible to understand things,” but it’s apparently a totally normal take from libs to conclude that there are no patterns to human behavior and everything is just individualistic, subjective, and random.
interpreting history from a materialist lens makes you ‘biased’ or ‘ideological’, which is bad. historians are supposed to be like a machine, take input in and produce a compiled output of all the facts.
source: my favorite unbiased historian, renowned for writing a biography of Churchill where he said he did nothing wrong