Re: End of the past?
Yes, I called you a neo-Nazi because of your offhand ‘native good, outsiders bad’ aplomb. This is exactly how neo-Nazis are spreading xenophobic hatred and paranoia in West through their poisonous glorification of everything ‘native’ and demonising everything ‘foreign’. Before anyone asks, it is the neo-Nazis who think they should be the one to decide who is native and who is an evil outsider in their country - on the basis of self-defined ‘ethnic purity’. Establishing ‘ethnic purity and racial supremacy ‘of one particular group at the expense of discarding, debasing and dehuhamising all other groups with mixed heritage, is what the neo-Nazis aim to do.
If you are not a neo-Nazi, then it would be helpful to see admit that racial bigotry is just as bad as religious intolerance. So far likes of you are just acting like dogmatic Mullahs and want to ‘glorify’ and ‘glamourise’ personalities strictly on the basis of ethnicity and race. When you are just throwing the words like ‘heroes’ ‘glorify’ and ‘glamourise’ the personalities you personally like, it is incredibly hard to take your crocodile tears for the demise of history, seriously. Simply because what you are suggesting is anything, but a part of the process of learning objective and balanced History. Mindless glorification and insecurity dripping ‘hero worshipping’ is nothing but some useless piece of romantic bullcrap which is no use to any History student. Stop clinging on to these aisine ideas, and you’ll find youself making so much more sense.
Yes, I am indeed beginning to hate your textbooks which great zeal now that you have named Alexander in your post. Seriously? Is he a son of soil of now? Why do you want to herofy him? On one hand, you copying and pasting internet meme’s with sentences denouncing ‘jang o jadal ki azmat’, on the other hand you want to - lick the practice that even the Greeks have spitted out - and ‘glorify’ Alexander?
In regards to your rest of the post, I have already suggested academic periodisation of history as one the quickest and easitest way to find solution to that problem. Second most obvious solution would be to invest funds in research departments - build more research centres. Pump funds in archaeology. Build libraries. Build archives to store records, and which also includes money being spent to systamtically preserve, manage and catalogue sources and evidence of historical importance, and make them acccessible to the public.