Yeah, that's all.

History is not a mean for making accurate predictions. We study history not to know the future but to widen our horizons, to understand that our present situations are neither natural nor inevitable, and that we consequently have many more possibilities before us than we can imagine. There is no proof that history is working for the benefit of humans because we lack an objective scale on which to measure such benefit. Different cultures define "good" differently, and we have no objective yardstick by which to judge between them. In a conflict, the victors, of course, always believe that their definition is correct. But why should we believe the victors? At the end of the day, only who wins survives to tell the story.  Organic parasites such as viruses, live inside the body of their host. As long as the host lives long enough for the parasite to survive, the latter cares little about the conditions of the prior. In just this fashion, cultural ideas live inside the minds of ...