How were soldiers dealing with stress pre 20th century? I imagine bayonet charges or medieval melee was a nerve wracking clusterfuck.
>>887972
Booze and beating their wife, sometimes harder drugs. I heard that US Civil War led to an influx of morphine addicts because of that.
The stress we see today on soldiers is much greater than before. The industrialised and mechanised variation of warfare is unfamiliar to the human mind that we can't fully process it just yet. The scale of calamity and death is also much greater. Men die quicker now.
>>887972
Depends on the time period we're talking about.
A lot of older cultures were militaristic and the passage into manhood included mentally preparing for war.
>post-mortem psychiatric diagnoses
>>887825
This has got to be one of the most frustrating thing ever. Any time I see speculation about X person having Y issue I can feel an aneurysm lurking. It's much the same as the fascination with painting every major historical figure as homosexual.
>>887825
Historian's fallacy is the worst one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historian%27s_fallacy
Nah, man. Napoleon conquered Europe 'cause his daddy didn't love him and he was gay as shit.
Do we have a /his/ wiki yet?
I'll make one if we don't.
We don'
It'd be awesome if you did, anon
>>887686
All right, what should I call it?
>>887690
/his/ wiki
Why was he such a genius in so many different fields?
>>887435
I think geniuses tend to know more than most do about all sorts of topics, regardless of whether or not they specialize in something.
He was a jack of all trades, he was not great at anything, except painting.
Because he was a genius and the body of knowledge of the time wasn't as vast as today so it was easier to become multidisciplinarian.
Meanwhile, look at von neumann, a modern genius
Who are the five most influential people in history?
Augustus
Alexander
Attila
Genghis
Hitler
>>887374
The first five guys to reliaze that you can bury seeds to make plants appear
>>887447
>warmongers and political figures are THE MOST influential people in history
>not even bothering to include Jesus
How is the Labor Theory of Value wrong?
Furthermore, how is any theory of value even falsifiable? How do you tell where value does or does not come from?
>>887323
Because value is something people assign to something. You could pound on a rock with hammer for a year, and it would not be worth any more unless someone decided the rock now had some artistic value.
You turn a lump of gold into ring, but if the value of gold drops you'll be laboring at a loss
>>887323
>How is the Labor Theory of Value wrong?
It's completely unable to make predictions for one thing. For another, look at any given real estate market and note how location; which only tangentially is a labor cost, affects value.
>>887323
In a purely quantitative sense, the labor required to produce value is not reflected in the product itself.
Think of the proverbial goose who laid a golden egg. That goose produced something of value, but in terms of it's labor did next to nothing.
On a similar note, a well orchestrated business may produce an object with streamlined efficiency, and therefore require less labor than another, less well organized economic process. The more efficient laborer may actually use less labor than the less efficient one, and may even produce a better product (more value), thus demonstrating that the sum total of labor inputs doesn't quantify the value.
What books are /his/ currently reading? I"m currently working on "Lords of the Sea" by John Hale and "Thermopylae - The Battle for the West" by Ernle Bradford.
>>887251
The Histories by Herodotus (Trying out the Tom Holland translation) Good so far.
The Crimean War by Orlando Figes
>>887251
Paratrisika Vivarana.
Vendidad.
Selected papers from the Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes,
Sarada Tilaka Tantram
Varivasya-Rahasya
So my girlfriend send me a picture of a helmet that her dad has and she says its a roman era one.
No one knows what faction/army it relates to so i need your help.
>>887068
It's obviously middle eastern with the sliding nasal bar, plume sockets, and the spiked top.
Though Eastern Europeans used it as wel.
This actually looks very eastern European or middle eastern. Any markings on it?
Op here
No i cant tell if theres markings cus im not there now but i can tell you that it was found in isreal so maybe it is middle eastern! Can you tell what army used it?, maybe the hasmonaim? (Dont know how to write it)
Is social democracy just a revisionist tradition within socialism or is it akin to something entirely separate, like liberalism is to socialism.
>>886888
Social democracy is just Progressivism 2.0.
>>886888
Revision just to appease people like George Orwell
Also, you almost got 888888
Social Democracy is the attempt of the bourgeoisie to sap the revolutionary energies of the proletariat through concessions that maintain the status quo.
Was world war 1 the most brutal war?
>>886879
Depends on your idea of 'brutal'. Elaboration?
>>886879
The most brutal wars are always civil wars. It's quite fascinating, really.
Though Japs having their way with China was pretty gory too.
>>886893
Not by casualties but just horrible conditions and cruelty
Is it really only the denial of internationalism?
For the health and well being of the nation and people
>They are German and we are English, therefore our views and our methods on many subjects will be different. In this particular we possess a great Empire comprising many different races. They possess no such Empire, and their aim is a revived German race, geographically united. We believe profoundly in our own British race which has created the Empire, but we know also it would be bad for the Empire to stigmatise by law other races within it as inferior or outcast
>Fascism is the name by which the modern Movement has come to be known in the world. It would have been possible to avoid
>misrepresentation by calling our Movement by another name. But it was more honest to call it Fascism and thus to let everyone know exactly where we stood. It is up to us to defeat misrepresentation by propaganda and explanation of the real policy and methods of Fascism as it will operate in Britain. In the long run straightforward dealing is not only honest but also pays best. The alternative name for the modern Movement is the National Socialism used in Germany. But the German Movement also is known throughout the outside world as Fascist, which is the name commonly used to describe the phenomenon of the modern Movement whether in Britain, Germany or Italy. National Socialism and Fascism in my view are the same Movement, finding different expressions in different countries in accord with different national and racial characteristics. For seven years in the Labour Party before founding Fascism in Britain, I fought for a National Socialist Policy in contradistinction to the International Socialism of that Party.
>>Oswald Mosley (1936) Fascism: 100 questions asked and answered
>>886862
he still doesnt tell me what fascism is gb
Did he ever cuck the Tsar?
I bet he fucked the Empress and all her daughters.
He probably 'experimented' with the Tsarevich too when 'healing' his groin injury.
>>886693
the answer lies in his eyes
Ra-Ra-Rasputin lover of the Russian queen.
I don't see why he was an important person apart from being living propaganda against the Tsar.
Look, if you had one shot, or one opportunity to erase original sin. In one moment would you martyrdom, or just let it slip?
Amen
His psalms are sweaty
Knees weak
Cross is heavy
His disciples and last supper are ready
Lord's Spaghetti
He's nervous but on the surface he looks calm and ready to save us
But he keeps on forgetting about Judas!
The Romans goes so loud, they nail him up so he can't come down!
He's choking now, the Jews are joking how!
Times up, crucifixion now!
Have a Good Friday /his/
>>886660
>Look, if you had one shot, or one opportunity to erase original sin. In one moment would you martyrdom, or just let it slip?
An omnipotent GOD can do that anytime.
>>886660
Snap back to Gethsemane
Oh, He goes heavenly
Oh, there goes Peter
He smote he's so mad but he won't give up that easy
No He won't have it, He knows His whole back's to these beams
It don't matter, He's clean
He knows that but He's broke
He's so sad that He knows
When he goes back to His heavenly abode that's when it's
Back to His Dad again, yo
This whole rhapsody
He better go capture this moment and hope it don't pass him
You better lose yourself in the Atonement, the moment, you own it,
You better never let it go
You only get one shot do not miss your chance to be made whole
This crucifixion comes once in a lifetime
can we acknowledge that Jesus is a rap master psalmist? "Father, why have you forsaken me? I know you haven't bruh, jk. I just love dat psalm 22."
aesthetic armours thread
try to avoid uniformed armours if you can
>>886497
This kind of armor thread would be better on /tg/ if you care about look more than function.
>>886556
Isn't that the Polish Hussar armor?
St. Pancratius
boo
Would the Middle East be a better place today without the Sykes-Picot treaty?
The Middle East would be better if it was still a pluralist single state
I found this speech yesterday when researching something else, it's from a 1920 House of Commons speech by Sir J.D. Rees.
http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1920/jun/23/mesopotamia-1#S5CV0130P0_19200623_HOC_354
>My right hon. Friend (Major-General Seely) in his speech has overlooked the fact that there is really no such person as a Mesopotamian. He spoke of Mesopotamians as if they were a nationality and were united. I venture to submit that they are, in point of fact, composed of the inhabitants of three cities which have very little affinity, and certain loosely connected tribes. Those tribes are said to be very friendly to us, partly owing to the services, which I am sure I do not under-estimate, of Colonel Lawrence, but I can remember that they were extremely friendly towards another colonel on a former occasion until they took his life.
>It is true that my right hon. Friend and others have counted to a considerable extent on the friendship of the Arabs because of their hostility to the Turks. Their hostility to the Turks simply comes from the fact that the Turks were their governors. The Turks governed them easily, loosely, spasmodically. It was the easiest yoke in the world, but the Arabs hated them, because they hate any yoke...They are in no sense Mesopotamians, and we cannot count at all upon their friendship in the manner which has been suggested in this Debate.
>Just in proportion as government is good government, so far will it be hateful to the Arabs. What we consider good government is exactly what they abhor, and they will hate us if we impose upon them anything like civilised Western administration far more than they hated the Turk. In point of fact, their hatred of the Turk was purely of a professional character, in the same way as an Irishman will write himself down against the Government, wherever he is, and whatever the government.
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>>886683
>The same is the case with the Arab nomads, and they are, I think, the majority of the population of this region which we roughly call Mesopotamia. They will the more dislike us the more of our money we spend in imposing upon them a civilised administration.We threw every kind of modern learning at the Hindus, and created in them a love of advanced democratic administration; but there is nothing of the sort amongst the Arabs, and I hope we shall not add to our embarrassments by wasting our money in the vague, foolish, and, as I think, odious effort to impose our own views of what is good administration on nomad tribes and on the inhabitants of these three cities in Mesopotamia. Let us give them material advantages, but let us not endeavour to interfere with the psychology of the Arab people
>My hon. Friend the Member for Stafford said we should train the Mesopotamians in order to be able to withdraw the Indian troops, but again I do not understand what he meant by Mesopotamians. Who are the Mesopotamians that he suggests should be regulated and made into disciplined soldiers? Is it the desert tribes, who hate one another and unite in nothing else but in disliking one another until somebody else tries to govern them all, when they hate him more than they hate one another?
>I want to protest that no sooner shall we be installed as governors of the Arabs than, unless we draw government very mild, we shall be far more unpopular with them than ever the Turks were, whose yoke was light, although occasionally they came out with guns and swords to collect their taxes. I hope what I have said about the extreme advisability and absolute necessity of avoiding anything like what we call good government, and letting these people go on managing their own affairs, will be acted upon by the Government.
