Is history bunk?

[MarcusA]

History is a fool's errand. History is a mug's game.

[MarcusA]

If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out. - Oscar Wilde

It is simple politics.

[MarcusA]

Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow.

[MarcusA]

The Dialogic -
full of sound and fury,
signifying nothing,
the hurly-burly's done.

[zorkan]

"History is nothing but a pack of lies about events that never happened, told by people who weren't there."

This quote gets support from Hermann Weyl, German mathematician and theoretical physicist.
"Events do not happen. We merely come across them."
It also gets support from many other scientists, like Carlo Rovelli when he argues that nothing exists.
Nor did it ever.