There’s a childrens show called “Horrible Histories” that tried to make history “fun” for kids. They continually indicate that people in the past were very stupid and brutal. Horrible history show.
> There’s a childrens show called “Horrible Histories” that tried to make history “fun” for kids. They continually indicate that people in the past were very stupid and brutal. Horrible history show.
But people were (and continue to be) stupid and brutal. If anything, the Horrible Histories series whitewashes and plays down many of the actual stupid brutalities, so as to make the history child-friendly. But there are events like cat burnings in European history up to the 1800s, where people would gather in the town square and set giant bags of cats on fire [1].
The edition of Horrible Histories that comes out in the year 2100 about the 21st century is going to describe the most stupid and brutal period yet.
