How do you deal with the bouts of depression that studying history

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>>3301667
It's all about judging history in your own view. Do you think the majority of history has a bad ending? To me, I think it's a balance between fair and unfair with most things in it. But, I do agree with you that humans aren't living the greatest lives that they possibly could be.

Because if that were the case, it'd be the Wild West or the Renaissance all over again. But it isn't, for we live in this gay, boring consumerist age where you work, pay, taxes, and then die.

That's no way for Man to live. That's no way for anything to live. I would trade this life to go back into the past if it meant not living in this postmodernist shithole, I really would.

One most embrace the beauty of tragedy, of the noble loss

>>3301683
>Do you think the majority of history has a bad ending?

I think History is mostly bad endings, but that each of these bad endings are all also good endings to someone else.

The conquests by the Mongols were the greatest bad endings to millions, but to the Mongols, it is their greatest golden age

I think most depressing thing about history is how much popular ideas of historical things are lies. All that shit about noble knights, honorable samurai, pure princesses, it's all fucking lies. We're all murder-happy rapists who are kept in check by stronger murder-happy rapists.

>>3301696

By the very that you're capable of mourning the "loss" means you haven't actually lost.

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>>3301667
>>3301746

>How do you deal with the bouts of depression that studying history causes?
>>Almost every "story" in history has a bad ending
>>History is constantly unfair, with few rarely getting what they deserve
>>For all of human history, including today, the majority of humanity is not living a pleasant life

That's where credible theology comes in...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6wmDBz8H_Q

>>3301667
It is rather pessimism that plagues me

>>3301667
The real redpill is that the majority of human history has been extremely mundane, insignificant and generally pretty ok.

>>3302068

Pessimism is simply functional depression.

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>wake up
>don't live in the Habsburg Worldstate

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>>3301667
>he judges history with a christian lens in 2017

well stop being christian

>>3302107

Pain seems to be a universal downer

Most political ideologies seem to focus on ending or minimizing pain, though, it's not a Christian viewpoint.

>>3301683
>the Wild West or the Renaissance all over again
Please no.

>>3302107
Atheists are the plight of humanity.

>>3302143
What did (You) mean by this?

>>3302107

Through what lens would the history of the world be mostly happy?

>>3302105

That seems a fate worse than death

>>3301683
>I would trade this life to go back into the past if it meant not living in this postmodernist shithole, I really would.
So why don't you just move to some third-world country?

>the world is this shitty yet good still exists somehow

>>3305373

>Implying

Show me the good in the world

>>3305348

>Black People

It's about Third-World conditions, but with white people and their evolutionary traits

>>3305373
It's because things are shitty that good can exist in this world in the first place.
Without a good/bad dichotomy to foil each other both become meaningless

>>3302062
Fuck off retard

What makes me sad is the way I'll read about things that can easily attribute to an event that is happening currently.

Makes me feel like humans will never learn from our mistakes and we'll never transcend to greater heights

>>3304473
rose colored ones

>>3305348
Thirdworlder here, nah, it's the same boring, consumerist shithole here.

>>3305511

It's almost as if you've never lived in the post world

>>3301667
Im planning on killing myself, and I think that may work.