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When did you become interested in /his/tory? 2017-07-21 02:20:14 Post No. 3115395
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I was always mildly interested in history, but as I grew up I got too wrapped up in inane consumerist fiction.
Then one day, the lore just wasn't deep enough.
Fictional settings, with few notable exceptions, can be as wide as an ocean but are almost always an inch deep.
Not so with history. History is the deepest, dankest lore. From the original fiction that is mythology that influences ancient societies that our own are descended from, there is so much to learn, appreciate, speculate, and enjoy. There's so much to it I could spend the rest of my life happily learning about one subject, just one, and never have scratched the surface.
Besides, being able to relate the history of a civilization and culture to our own is a lot more interesting than mindlessly recalling the 27 times Iron Man fought Dr. Doom and the differences and similarities in their suit design technology, or explaining the cosmology of the fucking Elder Scrolls universe. Who cares what their tax policies are, do you know what your own government's tax policy is, and do you know how it is descended from the Roman or Ottoman taxation methods, which in turn come from rudimentary bronze age methods?
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In school, we learnt about all the Ancient Cultures. I remember looking at the pictures of Lucy and Ashurbanipal Wrestling the lion. That's when I fell in love with History and Art History
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Playing Age of Empires II in 2nd grade
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Social studies in middle school and Rome Total War.
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Ironically OP, as a PhD candidate in History, I enjoy fantasy settings and world building far more.
Historical scholarship is tedious, full of doubts, ambiguities, biased sources and disputed scholarship. Not quite like the history of say Forgotten Realms, or the cultures in Malazan or the dynasties in Westeros. Fantasay is a complete puzzle while history is 5 distinct pieces of a 1000 piece work, and you try to guess how other pieces might be.
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Call me edgy if you like, but there was a 25~ page book about the 3rd Reich in my elementary school library full of AESTHETIC photos. This was my first step on the dark path to redpills and historical knowledge.
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>Historical scholarship is tedious, full of doubts, ambiguities, biased sources and disputed scholarship.
Yeah, I could see how it's a bit of a drag if you did it professionally, but I took it up as a hobby. I listen to podcasts and audiobooks at work, on commute, or fixing things around the house. Maybe someday I'll write like an armchair historian book on what I'm studying or do a podcast, maybe not, but I'm having fun with it; most likely because there is no pressure.
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