Anyone who says you need to learn history is a fraud or a dupe.
The purpose of history is purely propaganda, to manipulate people today. History is used as a kind of grab bag, using whatever they can to prove whatever point they are trying to make. So people will reach back to Ancient Rome, Ancient Greece, the Early Church, Atlantis, Ancient Ireland, Ancient India, or Desert Fathers in order to prop up whatever they’re putting out, and to try to get you to give them money & attention. I don’t care what people did in the past, that doesn’t influence my decisions today. I avoid anyone who appeals to history in order to make their points.
People should instead say, “I don’t know anything about history, and I don’t think anyone should learn history.”
A wise or inspired person doesn’t need to know anything about the past in order to make decisions today. And please don’t fall for whatever you hear on some podcast or on a random blog, they’re just hustlers trying to entertain you under the guise of history. It’s all a scam.
Everyone should be against this stuff, especially in public schools:
Since the 19th century there has been a growing industry for revisionist historians & alternative historians. This has blended with other groups, such as the New Age, Alternative Spirituality, Mormonism, “Word of God” Christianity, and Conspiracy industries. It’s impossible to pin any one group or person down since they infinitely divide into sects & create their own little media empires of selling books & videos. If someone is selling you “true knowledge” or history books or videos, avoid them totally. It’s not worth your time.
Today this concept goes by many names: Atlantis, true history, lost knowledge, secret history, forgotten worlds, revisionist history, alternative history, or Egyptian mysteries.
The topics & overlap expand, so you’ll get hustlers who write about environmentalism at the same time as writing about astrology and the occult. You’ll get women writing about mermaids or the divine feminine, and trying to use some historical texts to attempt to give their writings legitimacy. Churches of all kinds require historical texts, without them they won’t exist. The number of con artists expands all the time, so it’s not worth naming any of them, it’s just the concept that should be rejected.
Some recent popular topics: Atlantis, Ancient Egypt, Tartarian Mudflood, & revised timelines