Is the history of Humanity important or useful?

Question from the Internet:

“What is the importance of history to human development?”

Well, history is there to provide us with the ability to learn from previous mistakes and failures so we would build a better human civilization, based on the examples of the previously collapsed ones.

Unfortunately, as we prove time and time again, we do not learn from history.

Only 70–80 years after the previous world war we are on the brink of another. Although we proved to ourselves multiple times that a human society that is based on the manipulation, control and exploitation of the masses would inevitably collapse, we keep building human society the same way. We also know from multiple examples that when there are problems that affect the whole world we need positive, sustainable and international (global) cooperation, we fail to build one again and again.

Moreover, while history should provide us with a clear and accurate chronicle of our previous development, the history we know and apply is a completely subjective, distorted chain of events, rewritten many times by those who control the process.

The single root cause of all the above is the 100% self-serving, self-justifying, individualistic and exploitative nature we are all born with. And as long as we continue blindly following our inherent nature, we will also continue the helplessly recurring, vicious historic cycles until we completely wipe ourselves off the planet — either through wars or as a result of our inability to cooperate and solve our mounting problems.

Only by willingly and consciously recognizing and accepting the root cause of all the “evil” that has ever happened in history and is happening today within ourselves, only by pledging to willingly, consciously and methodically change ourselves — instead of constantly changing, manipulating, correcting, censoring and destroying others — can we start writing a new, this time positive and accurate history of mankind.