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So can we safely say by now that World War 1 was the point where everything went wrong forever?
I blame the s*rbs
>>868016
When will this meme end?
>>868009
Wrong for who?
Shit certainly benefitted Communism and our American Overlords.
Are there any powerful arguments against John Locke's posit of the human mind being a "tabla rasa", or have philosophy and psychology pretty well come together to conclude that this is precisely what our minds are at the beginning?
>>867987
OPs mind is still tabla rasa
![Tabula_Rasa[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/XyUxAWG.jpg "Tabula_Rasa[1].jpg")
RIP in peace
>>867999
Sorry, tabula rasa. Just a typo.
>memers on this board will un-ironically attempt to defend or even justify the Sack of Constantinople of 1204
>"M-MUH MASSACRE OF DA LATINS!"
Years of cuckoldry does that to you.
>Eastern
>>867717
My bad, Anon. Truly, I should have simply referred to them for what they were - the Roman Empire.
What did he mean by 'context', /his/?
>it's a Matt skirts around the atrocities committed by the British Empire during the colonial era episode
>>867771
He dun giv a fook
Did you see his video where there's a big Union Jack behind him.
>>867771
ultimately, the world would be a worse place without British imperialism
Why is North Europe so much richer and more productive than South?
Is it because the Southernes don't know harsh winter and never evloved the ability to plan ahead?
>Evolved the ability to plan ahead
Literally ever farming culture ever have had to do that, you mong.
>Poland
>Less corrupt than Ireland
Southern Europe is lazy and unstructured
autism breeds productiveness
Recently I was bored and wanted to watch a documentary on England. So I started watching pic related and find it to be great. I know it is trying to push a narrative of >muh anglo-saxons and >muh rule of consent but I enjoy it nevertheless.
So are there any other documentaries like this out there? Especially ones that don't trigger people with a history degree every 2 minutes. Maybe there is even an essential chart or something.
Please keep History Channel and Guido Knopp/ZDF-history tier docs out of this threat.
>>867106
>thread
Fuck me I need to go to sleep.
bumpidy
"China: A Century of Revolution" is pretty comfy
Is fascism definable?
Edgy ultranationalism with an oligarchy
Enphasis on edgy, you need to randomly invade people and then call it calculated realpolitik
>>866520
It's a more pure national socialism than implemented by the Nazis, mainly because the Nazis implemented the Jew-exterminating part.
>>866520
Fascism is an ideology of absolute etatism, formed around cult of a leader and aggresive youth activism. Ofcourse, because they grow in era when nation state become the norm, they borrow alot from nationalism but reject nationalist egalitarian view that everyone in the nation is equal. The Leader is pinnacle of man, the aggression of party member is an ideal emanating from Him.
>What if Rome had industrialized?
An empire built on slavery cannot industrialize. It could never have happened.
Depends on the type of slavery.
>>866462
How so? Do you mean wage slavery?
>tfw no industrialized Roman communist revolution
>>866451
Slavery is pants-on-head stupid if you're an industrial country
More pictures like this
Which one was smarter?
Who won the war?
>>866037
Stalin gained power from being a secretary. Hitler gained power from being a demagogue.
Stalin, he had to be to win the war
What are your favorite military marches or traditional patriotic type songs?
I'm a big fan of When Johnny Come Marching Home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRJB036ev2Q
British Grenadiers
https://youtu.be/PGrxHO-B2TY
We are marching to the field, boys we're going to the fight/And we bear the glorious stars for the Union and the right
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF9cF3eOQDA
>My philosophy is that I should be king
Really Plato?
>Suppose there was a magical cave and it was really cool outside of it
Why do we take this guy seriously again?
>Knowing that you know nothing means you are smart!
Fuck this guy!
Plato is a faggot but so is OP.
>>865037
5/10 bait, maybe someone will fall for it
>>865039
I think of the two OP is a much bigger faggot.
Why was Britain so irrelevant in wwii despite having all the resources of the largest empire in the world?
All those resources and population yet they still couldn't keep up with German production and man power, it's shocking stuff
Britain itself is a small bunch of islands.
During WWII these islands were blockaded by the Germans making it hard to get all of these resources and men to and from these islands.
Also a large chunk of British overseas territory was attacked and/or taken by opposing forces.
Germany on the other hand was landlocked, and once it had conquered western Europe it was free to move manpower and materials around the continent as it liked.
>>863669
I think you might have over simplified your view on Britain during ww2
>>863669
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_production_during_World_War_II
Britain and it's empire outproduced Germany by close to 2:1 margin.
were Eurasian horse nomads generally scum?
such groups are almost always described as savages by authors from settled groups who interacted with them. chinese and russian sources use 'tartar' and 'mongol' as an insult, Eastern Europeans always describe groups like the Cumanians as thugs who would ride into their territories, trying to steal their stuff, livestock and women. true, horse nomads were always characterised as excellent fighters, but also as lazy (using slaves or subservient groups to do any production), violent, ignorant, disregarding of human life and private property.
their history seems to fit this characterization. nomadic lifestyle generally involved pillaging your settled neighbours. when they created major empires, they just took this mindset to a new level. just read some quotes from Ghengis Khan: his conquests didn't even have any ideolgical basis, he basically said that they are conquering nations, destroying cities and killing millions because they can. and this was one of the more solid nomadic empire. most of them (such as the Hunnic or Timurid empires) just involved an army storming through lands and forcing locals to pay tribute. it's debatable if those even qualify as empires, or just lands raided by a very large and well organized group of brigands.
there is also no known cultural achivement by horse nomads. sure, they cannot be expected to create great buildings, but what about literature or religion? whenever they stayed somewhere for a long time, they quickly adopted local culture (see Ghengis Khan's successors in Persia and China). or look at the Huns: we know pretty much nothign about them, apart from a few artifacts there is no such thing as Hunnic art, we don't even know what there religion was like.
horse nomads really look like the most worthless type of people in history, who only ever managed to destroy or steal other people's stuff while creating nothing.
Literal bandits and marauders and little else. So yeah, scum.
>>862494
> vikings murder, pillage, loot, and rape.
> greatest people ever.
> Mongols murder, pillage, loot, rape, and turn (what was at the time) Eastern Europe into Asia.
> worst people ever.
>>862519
>false dichotomy + strawman: the post
Why are there never any discussions here about one of the best classicists and philosophers of the 20th century?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rioS0H-EHdw
>>856264
Oh shit! I didn't realize there was a Benardete lecture up. Are there any others?
i've never seen a thread abuot classicists here. i want to get into it myself, where do i start?
>>856569
Are you asking where should you start with studying the classics?
