Why do so many people find history boring?

I get that different people have different interests, but still.

Because for most, they have no point of reference and thus don't care. It's boring because its dry. Dates and names on a page in a long line of "and then" doesn't really interest people.

But if you frame it in the form of a dramatic narrative, then they will be interested as they can relate to the figures as characters.

It's a shame but it's the truth.

Always found that History is one long ass lord of the rings book.

>They lived, like, forever ago! What do they know about the internet and tv and shit?
>All they did was farm and fight all day
>They all died in their 30's what would they know?
People are ignorant as fuck. Imagine asking a peasant in the Middle Ages what the Greeks were like, you think he'd have a better answer?

History is useless for most people except for the fact that the had to go through the same shit as everyone else learning about the same shit to build a common culture. Does not matter if the process was boring.

It always shocks me when someone says something like "why should I care about what dead people have done"
most of my normie friends have literally no thoughts about how even our town or state came to be, let alone the slightest understanding of world history, but if you even begin talking about ancient history they all start talking about fucking aliens building pyramids and the satanic illuma-nutty
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you have to tell people about historic events in the form of a story, the only way you can relate it to people who aren't interested in the facts is to make it sound EPIC XD

Most highschools fucking botch it and make it a chore. It gives students a bad impression and then they just never bother to pursue it because they conclude it's "not their thing".

Plebs gonna plebs.

How is that a shame? It's the way history was taught for millenia. Dates and people with no context has zero use or value. Give me the motivations behind the actions, what the outcomes meant, etc. History is the story of humanity, it isn't math. Take the human element out of history and it becomes useless and boring except to retards who want to jerk off over trivia. Knowledge and information must have subatance. And in history that means a human element. Without that there's just no point to learning it.

>People are ignorant as fuck. Imagine asking a peasant in the Middle Ages what the Greeks were like, you think he'd have a better answer?

I actually would really like to know what a medieval peasant thought of the ancient Greeks.

It's a shame because it distorts history and puts emotional slants on it that are ultimately harmful to the objective viewing of it.

Yes, it's a fucking shame that in order to have anybody interested in history it needs to look like 300.

t. John Green

You need a basis in history before you get the deep understanding. Dates and names might be dull at times, but it's the foundation of knowledge.

Might as well say "There's more to studying English than knowing the difference between a noun and an adjective, or a comma and an apostrophe." That's correct, but you need to know those basics first before you can form any sort of educated opinion.

probably they wouldn't know what is an ancient Greek, and would beat you to death is you so much as suggest that pagans lived better than them.
medieval era was like walking on thin ice with politics, history and religion

You don't have to slant it and make history melodramatic in order to make it feel human rather than mindlessly learning names and dates and little else.

History is supposed to be all about the human story. Who the fuck wants to read "In 1492 Columbus sailed yadda yadda yadda"? Nobody. Why did he go? What was the trip like? What were the stakes? You have to give people a reason to give a shit. Because if you learn nothing from history besides names and dates, the information is useless. We have to learn the lessons of the past. And you miss that entirely by just focusing on the dry shit. Being dry is fine for math, because it is just logic. But even then you have to show people how it applies to their lives. If what you learn has no use to you, what is the point in learning it?

Hard to say what the peasants would say but it's undeniable that the intellectual elite of that era would be more historically aware by far then today's academic.

It's important for an understanding. Imagine if you were having a conversation with someone about the shakespearean era and they revealed that they thought Napoleon lived around the same time. You would automatically think less of their opinion when it came to history.

And when did I claim that being uninformed about dates and names was good? Those matter, my point was that your "hurr no1 cares about history unless its 300" is retarded. The actual story is actually better than 300. But you wouldn't know that given how most history teachers take an interesting and human topic like history and make it so mind numbingly dull that it's hard to have any concept of the human elements at play in these historical events, and thus deprive people of any reason at all to give a fuck about who did what in X year.

>Imagine if you were having a conversation with someone about the shakespearean era and they revealed that they thought Napoleon lived around the same time.

This is actually a problem with fact-driven history lessons, in that people who can't keep track of these kinds of details will mix them up. In the past, a story-driven knowledge of history meant no one would confuse Shakespeare and Napoleon because neither of them shared a story.

That's the point though. There's a difference between making it human and making it dramatic. Which was what was said in the post.

And generally to make things dramatic you must sacrifice historical accuracy. Even going as far back as Shakespeare which not only doesn't teach you anything, it spreads misinformation.

And that's not even getting into the fact that most of it is mainly conjecture that is completely unfalsifiable. It's either misguided at best or intentionally disingenuous at worst.

How do you figure that?

Like many said we learn it without the human element if history was more thaught like a story it would probably interest people more.
For me its also interestin because of that and ecause I find interesting how people lived and what they thought about other people.