>France creates, England corrupts, Germany destroys.
Why is the Eternal Anglo such a piece of Shit?
>>588138
I don't know if this is Pierre or Hans but either way you can fuck off
Most modern science comes from Germanic peoples, especially the Germans and English
The French have only contributed retarded leftist ideology
>>588150
> French
> Retarded leftist ideology
Such as?
How did the late roman empire come to depend on barbarian mercenaries so much? The late empire had no problem raising massive armies, so it's not like they lost the will to fight or anything, was it purely a financial decision?
>>588091
Roman troops had a tendency to revolt and overthrow the emperor during the late empire.
>>588091
They also weren't as adept at guerrilla warfare.
Id like to mention that it was a betrayel, but not an ooga booga snowniggers type betrayel. Romans treated the barbarians lower than shit, had them sell their children for the right to be slaves. Then they genocided them. Although only 30,000 barbarians joined directly because of this, it was just enough to capitalize on how weak Rone currently was due to corruption
Honorius never once
Can you recommend any interesting or influential works of philosophy concerning technology?
Nick Bostrom has a great book called Superintelligence that deals with issues of technology. He's an Oxford prof and heads the future of humanity institute.
>>588058
René Guénon - The Reign of Quantity & the Signs of the Times
> The author indicates with his fabled clarity and directness the precise nature of the modern deviation, and devotes special attention to the development of modern philosophy and science, and to the part played by them, with their accompanying notions of progress and evolution, in the formation of the industrial and democratic society which we now regard as 'normal'. Guénon sees history as a descent from Form (or Quality) toward Matter (or Quantity); but after the Reign of Quantity-modern materialism and the 'rise of the masses'
Jean Baudrillard and Ulrick Beck isn't philosophers but they're sociologist dealing with technology. Baudrillard deals with how human perception of not reality but the picture of reality we get thanks to modern technology affects us, while Beck discuss how we with the help of technology have entered an era where we're basically master of nature to the degree where it isn't about if something is possible but at what costs something is worth the risk, and how this aspect of society he calls for "risk society" affects us.
Has /his/ ever made its own charts like any of the other boards?
The /lit/ top 100 is a meme list btw.
A chart like this would be a better example.
>>588013
Fuck off chink. Your oriental shit is trash compared to western literature
>>588013
Many of those books are memes on /lit/ but that does not change the fact that many of the best novels ever written are on OP's chart and so its a pretty good guide to reading good books.
Why was Germany so butthurt about Versaille but Russia wasn't about Brest-Litovsk? They were objectively fucked harder: lost virtually all of their territories in the west, plus had to cough up reparations for a war they didn't even start.
Political dissent wasn't really something you did in the USSR, especially before the 60s.
>>587779
Was that red bit actually going to A-H? I was always under the impression it was all German.
>>587779
>plus had to cough up reparations for a war they didn't even start.
The angry anglo still going at it, eh?
Russia definitely and willingly was at fault for the war.
Or how do you comment on Alexander Izvolsky's(Ex-foreign minister, Russia's ambassador in Paris during outbreak) comment when the war finally started:
>C'est ma guerre!
Should I preorder Peter Wilson's The Holy Roman Empire: A Thousand Years of Europe's History?
>>587725
>Holy
>Roman
>Empire
>>587736
>le smug french man
WHAT'S THE DEAL WITH THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE?
IT'S NOT HOLY.
IT'S NOT ROMAN.
Kind of a /lit/ question, but what do you you think about this guy and his ideas?
Never finished his storm of steel. Considered trying again but ended picking up master and commander series for a reread.
He got his skull crushed in Cambrai and wrote a raving book about how GOAT the whole thing was. He's A-OK in my book.
>>587717
Pretty interesting. A refreshing change from all those commie pacifists who dominate 20th century literature
What would happen if World War II didn't happen? Where would we be today? What historical changes would you think would happen?
I want specific implications to Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. I'd like for you to entertain your own alt-history fantasies as much as possible, but I want to encourage some argument as well.
I know simply saying WWII didn't happen isn't exactly an unweighted thing, so lets just imply this: Very few to no members leave the League of nations, Poland cedes the Polish corridor and Gdansk is annexed, and after this Hitler halts his imperial views.
I'll just spam some shitty historical pics until someone inputs, thanks.
>>587683
>What would happen if World War II didn't happen? Where would we be today? What historical changes would you think would happen?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HUWUtTZvK4
Why did postwar America suburbanize and become reliant on cars to get everywhere and Europe didn't? Is it because of the greater freedom and wealth in American society?
>>587679
lobbying from car companies and modernist urban planning
>Europe didn't
Some European cities to have suburbs, but I'd say lack of space precluded their expansion to the extend of American ones.
>>587679
Why is that so cozy looking?
I normally hate suburbs.
What's a top tier book on human history.
From the beginning to now, I'm not looking for a book that go in depth on only one period.
Pic not related.
>>587569
Outline of history by HG Wells
>>587569
No such book exists.
>>587569
You already asked. The answer is none. Even if you want a broad understanding of history you're STILL better off learning about a few key periods and civs and then expanding from there
ITT: it is the year 50,000 BC
OP an ooga booga
The newly founded Eurasian Empire is flourishing...
>>587531
You know, why do representations of the past always show dishevelment when we know grooming and cleanliness are not unique hallmarks of civilization or empire?
Did marius intimidate Bocchus into joining forces with Jugurtha just so he and his generals would get more glory upon their victory?
>>587475
No
>>587475
Ask again tomorrow
If I told you I'd have to kill you.
Why were there no wars for the Americas in Europe? You're telling me France or Germany couldn't have just rolled into Iberia and told them to give up South America or else? These people murdered each other over rivers and towns, but a continent wasn't worth the effort?
Germany didn't exist until 1871 newfriend, Spain pretty much lost all the American colonies by that point.
>>587474
French & Spanish siege of Gibraltar
>>587474
We were constantly at war anyway in Europe, it doesn't change much if it's over a continent or not since it never stopped back then
Which one of them fucked Rome hardest?
>>587470
Marius saved Rome more than once, he could afford a few major fuckups
>>587470
why didn't the Romans have noses?
>>587470
Ovid
Why do so many people think Machiavelli is evil?
I hate to use the L word.
But he literally wrote the lawful evil playbook.
>>587446
Because he spoke well of things we associate with malice
>>587450
He just wanted a unified Italy and knew it could only happen using military force
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