theory of knowledge said:
can you expand on that FF? interesting thought, but what kind of pathways are you looking at?
Dude(I love that word), I aimed the QUESTION at you. Do you expect me to do your homework for you?
How has History survived? How has it developed? How have new discoveries been made. Man, everybody looks back on history, but next to nobody sees a damned thing.
I don't think your ever going to go out and hold a rubber ball moulded by Mayans. I'm never going to set foot on the ground of a crumbled civilization. Buddy living next door to me probably doesn't give a sh!t right now whether or not the Romans won any wars however many thousands of years ago.
Today, we've got ethnographers, dudes who go out and spend months in the field studying anthropolgy. Field testing theories of old culture, and societal boundaries of societies none of us will EVER probably hear about.
There are hisotry teachers in High school, whoteach kids about their own country, and of other countries. They teach kids what mistakes they made, and told them not to make them again. They're doing a shatty ass job of it if you ask me.
A thousand years ago, some dude invented something and wrote it down in a book. Today, 50 people are fighting over who gets to keep the invention.
Last month, a company crumbled, and now they need somebody with the skills to investigate how far back the corruption goes.
Man, without even THINKING of entrepereneurial possibilities(movies, books, antiques, field work, privelages, settlement claims) I just rang off four(to me) of the most important fields that a history major can look back on.
Now, you are a DJ... what do you see in the field of history, that you can grasp FULLY, and do a b!tchin ass job doing? You can always write thesis, and do extra work on the side. You can write proposals, and ask for funding from governments around the world. If you approach a businessman, who will let you sling R&D strategies at em, you can open up trade between museums NO sweat.
It's all up to you though, if you think the economy is going to collapse, look at history as your own personal goal.