>>612227Most historians simply memorize chronological listings of dates, battles, dynastic successions, inventions, and autistically specialize in one form of history, like culinary history, military history, or technological history. They do not bother to integrate the random events into an understanding that is scientific or materialist. To do so, they assume, is the work of philosophers. Furthermore they often take narratives at face value and forget that history is written by the winners. They are often surprisingly vulnerable to propaganda.
It is just like how pure mathematicians are very bad at finding situations in real life they can apply math to, and go through real life looking like bumbling spacey spazzes.