Those ignorant of history are condemned to psychology?

Those not assumptive believers in a religious “understanding” of the world and their lives, who are participants in the mass aHistoria of our time and seek some insightful world-, life-, mankind-view, most often turn to either some variant of psychology, or physics or cosmology, or especially a psycho-physics to gain some inclusive overall explanation and solution to the world and life and its troubles. Perhaps it is something like being in a river… while imagining it’s a lake, but turning it into a pond.