Why did Orwell hate the Irish so much?
>W.B. Yeats once said that a dog does not praise its fleas, but this is somewhat contradicted by the special status enjoyed in this country by Irish nationalist writers
>Actually, it’s simple. Orwell went to Spain to fight for his most deeply held belief, yes. Unfortunately, that belief wasn’t socialism but the nastiest, most puerile of the tribal hatreds English babies learn in the cradle: anti-Catholicism.
The revolution in Catalonia was unlike any other socialist rebellion before or since. Its fury was reserved for priests, nuns, churches and monasteries, and the anarchists Orwell loved were famous for inventing new ways to kill clerics. That’s what drew Orwell to Catalonia: the chance to help the men who were disemboweling priests in Barcelona and winding their guts around the altars. At last, a chance to smite the bloody Papists, the whore of Rome, Eric Blair’s oldest and dearest hate. Not since Cromwell had an English Papist-baiter had such an opportunity to torment the filthy priests. Naturally, Orwell was on the first ship he could catch. It wasn’t about socialism, it was about the chance to kill “a stinking RC” (Orwell’s description of Wyndham Lewis).
The Celtophobia starts in the very first line of 1984, the famous opening: “It was a cold, bright day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen.” Oh the horror of the continental (Papist) 24-hour clock
Obrien too. He wrote obrien in as the villain.
>>1123727
>Oh the horror of the continental (Papist) 24-hour clock
kek
Contrarians do love a bit of Orwell-bashing.
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Who were the biggest cuckers and why was it the Goths?
>>1123721
The moors
>>1125831
>>1125834
how long have you been waiting to use that image
What does/his/ think of Sufism
>>1123680
It suffices.
>>1123680
Based
Idk
The way they dance is fun
I heard that most of them are in Egypt and Turkey
Has anyone ever tried taking something as stupid as Dentology seriously and applying it?
>>1123219
William Lane Craig?
hello im a dentologist i study car dents :DDDD
>>1123311
10/10
Okay, so I've got to write a cultural critique short story kind of thing. A story with meaning i suppose. I have no ideas, I need help
sucks to suck
You have no ideas at all???
>>1123231
I mean a few, but like. I need something solid. I have to write it in class. Maybe something pertaining to Facebook, social media, I just need a start
Who won?
>>1123128
Who's next?
Portraits > Photographs
If I ever get rich I'm going to commission someone to paint me as a stately 18th century gentleman.
>I HAVE before observed, that whatever is qualified to cause terror is a foundation capable of the sublime; to which I add, that not only these, but many things from which we cannot probably apprehend any danger, have a similar effect, because they operate in a similar manner.
-Burke
>I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.
-Paine
You tell me, OP
Why has China historically had so much trouble modernizing?
>>1122915
Consider two people, both living in city preindustry. In preindustry, man China is an old, very SENILE nobleman who is well settled, renowned within the city, has his entire family settled there, has a large family estate with thousands of years of history and almost all his business assets centred in the city. A younger man who lives near China, Japan, a new university graduate who had based his thesis off a lot of what China had told him from his own experiences, who has a modest, newly established house, no family, and little affection for anyone in the city. When invaders come and conquer the city, would the young and open-minded newly educated Japan, or the senile, established and elderly China be more receptive towards the possibilities of greater attainment?
>build the world biggest navy in history
>sail around the world to exchange goods
>say fuck it and burn down the entire fleet
was China always like this?
Tradition.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shing%C5%8D,_Aomori#Tomb_of_Jesus_Christ
How do you folks feel about this?
>>1122795
Please.
>>1122795
>According to the Sawaguchi family's claims, Jesus Christ did not die on the cross at Golgotha.
>According to the Sawaguchi family's claims
>According to the Sawaguchi family
into the trash it goes
>>1122832
Rekt, saved, and /thread
Ok so i would like some more information on ancient indus folks, who were they, how did they manage to build such a glorious, flourishing civilization in such an early era (It was the world's oldest civilization IIRC)? How did life in their world look like, what was their culture, their beliefs and day to day life like?
>>1122783
They had sewage systems, making them considerably more advanced than modern Indians.
>>1123130
should have seen this coming
Anyway
>It was the world's oldest civilization IIRC
I think it's pretty uncontested that Mesopotamia and Egypt are much older. To put it in perspective, when Indus Valley urban development was just getting kickstarted, Egypt was already getting unified under a Pharaoh.
>>1122783
The people of the Indus valley probably believed in a kind of mother goddess similar to the Minoans on Crete, also for them water most likely would have been considered holy.
Rate him /his/
>>1122337
Best Portu of all time.
>>1122337
Turned Portugal into the poorest, most uneducated nation in Western Europe.
0/10
>>1122337
Yes, because Portugal was a rich and debt free country before him. With levels of iliteracy of 0%.
Is this movie one of the most accurate historical films in recent memory? It sure seems so to me.
>4 years of research poured into this shit
>overwhelmingly based on primary sources
>hand stitched accurate clothing
>accurate replica of an English colonial farm, down to the type of wood used
>characters speak in early modern English
>Reformed Calvinist themes pretty heavily present throughout the movie
It was marketed as a horror movie, but it really isn't all that scary. However it's an awesome period piece.
vumb
There was no such thing as witches, anon.
So that throws out like 90% of the movie.
The filmmakers suggested ergot poisoning led to hallucinations that sparked the Salem Witch Trials, but that theory is no longer accepted as plausible by historians, and even then the film got things wrong about the basics of ergot.
What did the filmmakers get right? Well there are these English puritanical colonists in 17th century New England. That's about it. There are a number of problems with the little homestead they build, like the windows and the bear traps and the clothing, and of course the whole thing is just too big for a family of banished outcasts to have built by themselves in a single season.
>>1123032
Witches are definitely real, anon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_History_and_the_Last_Man
The End of History and the Last Man is a 1992 book by Francis Fukuyama, expanding on his 1989 essay "The End of History?", published in the international affairs journal The National Interest. In the book, Fukuyama argues that the advent of Western liberal democracy may signal the endpoint of humanity's sociocultural evolution and the final form of human government.
What we may be witnessing is not just the end of the Cold War, or the passing of a particular period of post-war history, but the end of history as such: that is, the end point of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government.[1]
Fukuyama's position contradicts that of Karl Marx, who predicted that communism would displace capitalism.[2] Fukuyama himself identifies on some level with Marx, but more strongly with the German philosopher Hegel, by way of Alexandre Kojève. Kojève argued that the progress of history must lead toward the establishment of a "universal and homogenous" state,[3] most likely incorporating elements of liberal or social democracy; but Kojeve's emphasis on the necessarily "post-political" character of such a state (and its citizens) makes such comparisons inadequate, and is irreducible to any mere "triumph" of capitalism.[4]
Was he right? If not, how can we modify his thesis to make it more accurate? If you don't believe that the purpose of scholarship is accuracy, then please explain to me why you think that. I know some of you exist, and I'm not sure how to address you when making threads like this.
>>1122281
It did pretty good things for his career mostly but he was wrong. He did later rescind the idea that we lived in the last era of political development too which is a pretty big indictment anyway.
>>1122318
>It did pretty good things for his career mostly but he was wrong. He did later rescind the idea that we lived in the last era of political development too which is a pretty big indictment anyway.
As a Foucaultian i would tell you that the use of his work to justify the Iraq War makes him right, even if he rescinded his work. Power relations, etc. His work is grounded in neoconservative foreign policies now, it's too late to withdraw it.
>>1122325
I had no idea it was used to justify the Iraq War, pretty interesting. I thought he withdrew it on the basis of flaws inherent in Western liberal democracy.
Western liberal democracy isn't even a concrete term considering the huge array of different methods through the West. We weren't instilling Western values in Iraq it was geo-political and I don't see anything remotely approaching success in instilling Western liberal values in Iraq or anywhere else that foreign policy has led us to.
Ol' authoritarian China is having an unprecedented amount of growth in the 20th and 21st century despite having a centrally planned economy too.
What is the saddest event in human history and why is it the harrying of the north?
That's not the Holocaust
ac wēa, þis is ān fullstandiġ holocēast
That's not the Sack of Baghdad and the fall of Islam
https://screwplato.wordpress.com/2010/10/15/ancient-greek-philosophy/
The link says out loud what we all know: that Greek philosophy was a load of assertions that are unfalsifiable and badly argued and generally shitty.
WHY do people pretend that the Munchhausen trilemma doesn't clearly show the triviality of philosophy? You can choose any axioms you fucking want and then make the logical deductions ffs.
>>1122221
>unfalsifiable
You're on a history board. An entire subject which cannot be falsified, in fact most things can't at all. Including your the ideas in your own post or the very idea core of falsifiable while you are at.
>You can choose any axioms you fucking want and then make the logical
Whether something works on paper doesn't matter, what matters is it's application and it's results. For instance, Solipsism is perfectly justifiable but it's not going to have any influence
>>1122221
Except the Munchausen Trilemma is full of shit.
Proof doesn't need to be made infinitely because you would eventually get to the fundamental proof of every component of everything you're discussing if given enough time to express your knowledge of the truth.
It's just in the name of time and parsimony people don't bother explaining the fundaments of physics every time they're making a finer point about ethics. If you and whoever you're dialoguing with are autistic enough, you could start with the baselines of the sciences (energy, matter, math, etc.) and spend six months working your way to the original question about the nature of man.
>>1122380
>I was only born in 1999
Are you a least 18?
What's the difference between a general and a generalissimo?
It's the same as the difference between a General and a Marshall in Central/Eastern europe.
or the difference between a 4 and 5 star general in the US.
Generals command single armies, a Generalissimo is the commander of the combined armies. a commander-in-chief who isn't a civilian.
to make it simpler, it's comparable to Zhukov's rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union, or Erich von Manstein's rank of Generalfeldmarschall.
General is with cream, Generalissimo is with milk
It should be added that, in the memory of today's Spain, the only generalísimo is Franco. I was fairly surprized to see the similar english term generalissimo being used in english historical books.
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