This guy pokes his head out of his car at you and says
>History is inherently unscientific
How do you respond?
throw my copy of guns germs that i have with me at all times and then cry
Science is inherently unhistorical, man.
>>333121
Time you read Kuhn, Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
Hey, /his/ half brit half chilean fag here. My old man was a revolutionary during Pinochet's time in power and he always claims that it was the American's lone fault that Pinochet took power.
Personally I think this is bullshit, and even without American support Allende fucked up so much that it would've resulted in a coup either way.
Chilean here. Allende arrived to power with only 1/3 of the voters. The votes were divided with 1/3 on the right (national party), 1/3 the left (the unidad popular) and 1/3 the political centre (christian democracy). He was elected by congress after a pact with the centre. He led a very polarizing goverment and he didn't had the support of the majority, not even the left ( the left was divided between communist and socialist). The coup wasn't inevitable, but he was destined to fail in his plans
>>333197
we are talking if the USA was the culprit of the coup, not pinochet
Is racism a neuro-masculine trait? Does it serve a biological function? I've come across a lot more racist men than racist women in my life, and I think it has to do with the fact that men are more worried about interlopers from other tribes coming and "stealing" their women, so they had to make this ingroup solidarity with other men in the tribe. Women never had to develop this urge, and instead only value strength, because they will reproduce regardless.
might have something to do with penis size tbqh family
autism speaks
>>333008
I don't believe that racism is natural. Racism is learned behavior.
What causes racism is that certain groups, such as blacks, behave in antisocial ways : they are rude, loud, commit a lot of crime, etc.
Was Mansa Musa richest guy who ever lived on this planet?
I've read stuff to the effect of Bill Gates being the richest in terms of actual purchasing power, but since wealthy Romans could and did pay armies out-of-pocket, I have trouble believing it. Who knows how many mercs Bill could buy, though?
>>332973
If I remember correctly John D. Rockefeller's wealth was about 200 billion dollars in today's money.
I think Rockefeller was richer. That's not to say that Musa wasn't influential since he drove up inflation of gold.
Everything about Joseph Smith and this region is fucked up
I'm sure Utah has to have something going for it.
It 's religion not region OP. But yeah I agree. It's fucking stupid
>>332945
kek'd
What went wrong during the 1970's?
>terrible economy, high unemployment and stagflation
>widespread terrorism
>extremely high crime rates
>massive heroine epidemic, and the start of the failed war on drugs
>absolutely horrendous aesthetics
>optimistic 50's and 60's science fiction replaced by environmental apocalypticism
>many large western cities cities became slums
>muslim world begins to adopt extremism
>>332866
Reagon
Reagan
Reagan
it was the hippies
the war on drugs has not failed. Anyone who says otherwise is a meming faggot. The reason crime rates increased is a direct consequence of increasing drug use/addiction and repression tactics were the only logical means to staving off the problem
Fuck off op
>its a social construct, therefore it doesn't exist
how do we stop this meme?
It would be harder than the "It's just a theory" meme. Just accept to live with it
Things exist as social constructs.
Things do not lose relevance with the status of being constructs.
>>332856
>it doesn't exist
No, it just isn't natural. That's the point.
>History exam covering The New Deal, WWII, and The Cold War
>Barely read any of the chapters
>Exam in less than 3 hours
Any tips for me?
>>332657
Offer your teacher a blowjob.
>>332661
I meant advice in the realm of "any underlying themes that will help me with the multiple choice test," but thanks anyway
>>332657
The New Deal was useless as fuck, the thing that actually improved the economy was the war effort
PS: I have no idea what the New Deal is, but I read a post saying that earlier on this board
is logic an illusion?
I'm not sure I know what "illusion" means in this context, since logic is abstract. Is the Fibonacci sequence an illusion?
>>332582
No, you dumbass.
>>332582
It's pretty much as close to the opposite of illusion as you can come.
When in the history of humanity has a country ever been destroyed because it didn't breed enough to keep its population up?
I want just one objectively true case where a country was destroyed not by outside influence, not by anarchy or revolution, not by anything except for lack of breeding speed.
I can't think of a single case where a strong country just suddenly died because no one was breeding.
Pic unrelated.
>>332573
Rome
>>332583
In 476 C.E. Romulus, the last of the Roman emperors in the west, was overthrown by the Germanic leader Odoacer, who became the first Barbarian to rule in Rome.
>>332573
Your question is stupid. Low population growth and a lack of breeding would be a contributing factor to getting conquered or assimalated into a larger country or culture. Unless you have walls that will completely cut you off from the whole world.
What are the manliest philosophical concepts?
The categorical imperative is fucking manly, no bullshitting just rules.
Epictetus' sphere of choice
Will to power
Wu wei
Zen koans
Enlightenment
>>332536
having your own philosophy, duh.
Cynicism
Stoicism
Was "free trade" originally just an excuse for European countries to exploit their dominance of global trade at the expense of all non-European countries (e.g. The Opium Wars)?
Also cheap foreign labor
>>332474
The idea?
No.
The implementation?
Definitely. And colonial exploitation wasn't free trade in the slightest.
>>332596
No true Scotsman?
>Japanese "people"
>not subhumans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdM3_kzhscM
Should have dropped more nukes IMO.
I'm Chinese and I'm out of hecks to give. Japs were barbaric retards back then, but they sure aren't now. No use in harping on them when they're basically a pacified bitch vassal of the United States of America.
Although the perception of the war in Japan really boils down to comfort women and Hiroshima/Nagasaki. They really have no idea of what went down in China, SE Asia, or the Pacific. To them, they were freeing Asia from the evil white imperialist.
>>332413
m-muh Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
>>332413
>I'm Chinese
I believe some kind of validation is required
In the late 19th European explorers who had previously looked around the coasts of the continent began to push into Darkest Africa. They expected to find valleys and mountains, exotic plants and animals, and they did. But in the jungles and Savannahs they also something they did not expect, ruins likes these. Great stone structures such as Great Zimbabwe much like the castles they had back home in Europe. They wondered who could have build them? Some lost host of Alexander the Great's army or Crusaders? The Diamond Mines of King Solomen? Could they be outposts of Atlantis, peoples of the hollow earth or martians?
No, it turns out that they were built by the ancestors of the natives of those areas who the explorers dismissed as being a bunch of Dumb Darkies.
>>331961
What else did they build
>>331961
>Let the buldings their ancestors built rot and completely lost the art of making them
>Not dumb darkies
At that point, it's amazing they haven't gone back to living in trees.
>>332027
With that logic you could dismiss the Easter Islanders and Mayas
A while back, there was a thread on who people considered the greatest philosopher -- a good chunk of people leaned towards Diogenes. Me, being the scrub I am, had never heard of him before but reading the thread and reading up on his antics I have to say I'm rather fond of him.
However, no texts of his seem to exist and the majority of his leanings are based on conjecture due to what other people have written on him. While reading on his feud with Plato is interesting, and I admire his sarcasm towards Alexander the Kind-of-Alright, is there any actual reason behind considering him a great philosopher? Or, honestly, a philosopher at all and not just a old dude who lived in a pot and waved his junk at people?
I'm thinking maybe I'm just not looking into it enough, or perhaps there's some novelty I'm missing...
Literally the first meme
I just admire his candor. Dude had balls. I also admire his dedication to the ascetic lifestyle. It's hard to not admire someone who was so passionate about his life's work. I think the problem with modern philosophers like Nietzsche is that they totally failed to live up to their ideal.
>>331822
>I think the problem with modern philosophers like Nietzsche is that they totally failed to live up to their ideal.
And thank God philosophical ideals are never lived up to in society. It would have been utter garbage.
