Who should I read in order to get a Chomsky-ish analysis of twentieth century and onwards Africa? Specifically Eritrea/Sudan/Ethiopia but anything about the continent would be great.
Also Africa discussion thread
>>1155866
>chomsky-ish analysis of 20th century africa
So you want an answer as to why the current state of Africa is America's fault?
>>1155871
I'm looking to know how exactly it was shaped by global forces.
>>1155884
Colonialism dumped infrastructure, then when the whites up and left or were killed off there wasn't enough expertise to maintain the infrastructure everyone had relied on.
Then the Cold War kicks off and everyone started arming everyone in Africa to either fight/spread communist ideology.
Cold War ends, all the African nations relying on soviet assistance now find themselves with no money and a lot of weapons. Que the spat of small wars and ethnic cleansings we see today.
Now China has moved in under neo-colonialism but they just build enough infrastructure to extract resources. You won't see any Chinese made universities in Africa.
Is mental illness overrepresented in philosophers or other famous great people?
I think every Wikipedia page I come across, for example about Nietzsche or Foucault, has a section about their years of mental illness. (And by mental illness I mean something more than having the occasional light depression, like basically everyone on the planet.)
>>1155827
Genious and madness often go hand in hand.
Lots of great leader had manic depression and would alternate between brooding and going out and do crazy stuff (napoleon, alexander, hitler)
>>1155827
I'm in the camp that Nietzsche wasn't mentally ill at all, except for the occasional spikes of egocentricity.
The hard evidence we do have suggests he was fucked up from all the medicines he needed to function, and his tragic decline resulted from a physical brain disease.
Makes one sad when pondering on it, really.
>>1155869
>I'm in the camp that Nietzsche wasn't mentally ill at all
This isn't debatable if you actually knew anything about the matter, about the letters he sent, etc.
It's not a debatable issue, anon. Get yourself together.
What evidence is there that Nietzsche was an atheist?
>"I am an atheist." - Friedrich Nietzsche
>>1155937
How is that evidence?
What is the anthropological explanation for the existence of "honor"?
>>1155422
Shakespeare has Falstaff say:
"Honor, who hath it?
He who died o' Wednesday."
>>1155422
People in rural areas had to safeguard their reputations because people who didn't were seen as lacking confidence in their own good character. Gossip and rumors played a big impact on peoples' perceptions of each other in a part of the country where important folks (landlords, knights, planters, etc) didn't have big get-togethers often except for a few times a year at holidays. For lesser rural folk it was important because you wanted your neighbors to be trustworthy because you'd ask them to watch your shit for you when you went away and didn't want to worry about them stealing your livestock or other things.
>>1155422
chicks dig honourable men
How did Islam spread so far? Who did this? I thought the caliphates were confined to Arabia/Anatolia/Middle East (not to mention al-andalus in iberia). What brought it to India and the spice islands?
>>1155072
>France and UK aren't highlighted
>>1155072
What happened to the tip of India? Why didn't they advance south
>>1155072
The red area should go a lot further north, even the fucking Siberians were muslim
I want an introduction to philosophy, and what it is. Explain it to me as if I know nothing
>>1154860
You know nothing.
>>1154863
Lol Okay Socrates
>>1154860
well taken from its roots -sophist was a thinker and -phil applies to a person? so a person who actively THINKS hue hue
a philosophy thus is a set of thinking
some philosophy sucks and some is more practical dependent on time and place.
fin
The Nazis claimed to stand for traditional morality.
So why wasn't it a problem that Hitler was openly having an extramarital relationship with a younger woman?
Was degenerate behavior only a problem if non-Aryans were doing it?
>>1154825
>Was degenerate behavior only a problem if non-Aryans were doing it?
Yep, and who an Aryan was got made up on the fly.
Nazis were tropico tier.
>The Nazis claimed to stand for traditional morality.
They didn't, they specifically pushed for sexual promiscuity.
>>1154825
They weren't married though
>Was degenerate behavior only a problem if non-Aryans were doing it?
no, they just said that shit as kool aid to fuel their propaganda. It worked so well that people still buy into it today. Look at /pol/.
Can someone explain to me why the Japanese did Nanking?
Didn't they have a whole lifestyle based off of "honor"?
In the Japanese mind, Chinese people weren't human.
It's what happens when you're an isolated, collectivist society with no democratic institutions.
>>1154303
Only when people are looking.
>>1154303
Chinese aren't humans :^)
t. Yamamato Tojo Nakajima Mitsubishi Nambu
Does anyone know what the plank roads looked like during the Three Kingdoms era? I'm trying to wrap my head around the logistics of Shu-Han invading Cao-Wei.
>>1154301
Like planks every few feet to a few meters to make sure soldiers and carts had a foothold
As for Liu Bei invading they would have marched even if jungle was in their way. They where driven by divine fervor.
Even then the roads werent in horrible disrepair, if you can overrun checkpoints and blow through forts on the road. From Jing it only took 5 days to Xuchang. And its a large country even back then.
The only time you saw a road fully planked was... never. The most you saw where steplike planks only half a foot apart.
t. Han military manuals
>>1154314
Is it possible to move horses across non fully planked roads?
>>1154350
As long as the wet season iant happening its like normal roads
They planned battle around the weather
Was it justified?
It was comedic at least.
>>1154182
Germany had its shot at being great, and got close, but ended up failing miserably.
Now they must bend over and accept the Islamic cock.
>>1154182
It was a bad idea, but there were no good ideas. At least they tried.
Why didn't the disdain for bows held by European chivalry develop elsewhere? It's not like social classes were exclusive to Europe or the feudal system.
>“When we look back upon Western warfare as it was before the introduction of firearms, of the differences we see, the one which most boldly stands out is the precedence of valor over cunning. It is out of valor that European history rises: the spear and the sword, and not, as in Asia, the bow and arrow, are its symbols. The bravest and not the most crafty are the leaders of men, and it is their example rather than their skill which dominates the battle.”
Because it's stupid
>>1154126
Bigger dicks
>>1154126
Pretty sure it started with the greeks.
Plato appreciation thread. Aristotelianfags GTFO.
Let's discuss Forms and Ideas without any pure empiricist faggots denying the existence of abstract principles.
I think Plato was wrong in asserting that there are forms of artificial objects like beds and chairs. Suppose there was a form of the automobile. Then, since the forms are eternal and outside spacetime, it would have to have existed forever. But then how come man only invented the automobile almost two millenia after plato died? He discovered the previously unknown form of the automobile? But that's not how Plato's theory of knowledge works. You don't discover new forms, you remember them. In this case the automobile, if anything, would have to have been invented much earlier because more ancient peoples were less materialistic and remembered the forms better. I think Aristotle's view that there can only be forms of natural objects and the forms of artificial objects are created by us with reason and imagination solves this issue, and it has been incorporated, if I'm not mistaken (the Platonist scholar Thomas Taylor seems to think so) , by the Neoplatonists.
>the Forms exist
>why?
>because they exist
It's not empiricism, there's just no reason to believe it.
>forms
How do I become a Senator?
>>1153961
You don't. Filthy plebe.
Fuck your way to the top.
>>1153966
pre sure pompeii was a plebe
What was his deal?
>>1153960
Nigga had a big dicky unlike little Nicky
>>1154070
It was supposedly 8 inches flaccid, that's pretty impressive
Anyway he was just an opportunistic con artist who couldn't control himself.
>>1154070
BSC, big slav cock.
Were there many black roman citizens ?
>>1153861
It's possible.
>>1153861
Boi don u know WE FOUNDED urope and shiet
Scipio AFRICANUS was black
