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[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

Because studying history is not enough to have an emotional and intuitive understanding of it, as I said.

The historical records are not deep enough. They don't contain all the stuff you get from having lived through a period and/or personally knowing someone who did.