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?
the problem isn't people who like history become fash, the problem is people who become fash like history. they fetishise military history because it fits with their ideology, the study of history doesn't make you one of them. to be a leftist and to not study history is to be ignorant of how we even got into the issues we have now in the first place, to let so many struggles go forgotten, you cannot have a materialist analysis of the world without an understanding of history