The Survival of People

I have an odd relationship with history. Most of it holds no real interest for me, but then there events or trends in the world's past that fascinate me. How does a culture thrive, dominate and then disappear entirely? And it's not like lost civilisations are an uncommon phenomenon in our world's history.

Yet I feel like understanding history simply for the safe of creating object lessons for the present is a really cheap motive. I just wanted to express that somewhere.

If I had a bunch of clones I could command at will, I would tell one to brush up on history and keep me informed of everything important I need to know. Unfortunately that will never happen, so I will have to go without knowing. There's too much for me to even start. Seriously!