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Originally Posted by DNSB
I've mostly given up on reading history. Basically, most of our ancestors are not people I would want to meet on a well lit front street.
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Actually I find exactly this fascinating. If our ancestors were like us in every regard, with modern values and principles, reading about history would be really boring. I hate it in fiction too, when the characters in a novel taking place in the past are basically modern people in costumes. If I wanted modern people, I'd read a modern novel, not a historical one.
Edit: this doesn't mean I want to live in the past or among people with outdated values. I don't. But I like to read how people thought and felt in the past and compare it to how we think and feel now. That is what makes history interesting.