The most important question history offers

When all is said and done, the problem with most of human history is pretty straightforward.

A lot of petty, small-minded people having a hard time facing honestly that it is their smallness and pettiness that has so unhaltingly torn down so many of even their own best intentions. Not to mention their own straightforward self-interest. And, most importantly, everyone else around them.

There is a reason why we study enlightened self-interest in history classes. Looking after others' interests does tend to do good for the person doing the helping as much as for the person being helped.

And much of human history is watching folks who have not figured that out fucking things up for everyone else, including themselves.

And for much of human history that means us, as much as anyone else.

Am I one of those people? Are you?

The most important questions history has to offer that I know of.