As far as I can tell, most people who like history become fash. I've loved history from when I was 12, but now I'm not sure if I should. Even if they don't become fascist "entertainers", they become academics too obsessed with the minute details and not about how it meaningfully affects today's world.
Maybe I'm looking into the wrong field for what I'm interested in. Any thoughts?
History is like, one of the most communist things to study. Sure there's dorks who just want to learn fun facts about the past and fash who are weirdly obsessed with the "glorious" empires of the past that constantly smelled like shit and treated women as property, but actually really studying history as a dialectical process is how you get historical materialism, and you can't do that if you don't know your history.