Is there an "end" to history, in a teleological sense? Think of modern "progressives", for instance. By the very definition of the word they must be progressing towards something, a quantifiable end-goal or final conclusion.
Does this mode of thinking belong in the dust-bin with Whig history and Marx's historical inevitability?
>>556281
History ends when we finally kill everyone
>>556281
Fukuyama pertains to this race of fake historians and true ideologists. That's all, really. Their hate and fear of socialism leads them to the most ridiculous attempts, like trying to deny the very existence of the matter to discuss.
>>556304
Would you describe yourself as a socialist, anon?
How did Hitler get so much power if he was only a corporal? I know he got the Iron Cross. Was that a big deal? Did that impress people or was it not that important?
>>556255
1st; That's Himmler (in Der Untergang), not Hitler.
2nd; He was a natural at organization, oration and leadership. His political acumen was unmatched. This allowed him to become the leader of the nazi party.
His status as merely a Corporal was belittled by Prussian commanders later, during the actual war. By that, to late - He was their Führer.
>>556313
>He was a natural at organization
He was a natural at playing organisational games. His own organisational capacity was poor, largely due to his game playing.
>>556255
Junkers.
Did Mexico ever have any ideas of conquering south? Why did it expand north instead of south?
>>556142
It never expanded north
>>556155
It had states in the American West. It wasn't always south of the Rio Grande.
>>556162
It was the US which expanded South, Mexico was already in.
And Mexico was also in Central America for a while
>We got a leader who continued policies of ethnic nationalism in a vast multi-ethnic empire, thus causing needless conflict and friction between peoples in his empire rather than working to meld them into a cohesive whole
>Develops only military industries while leaving civilian industries undeveloped
>Got involved with a war with a small but competent nation on a volcanic island chain and lost.
>Viemently opposes any form of democracy or a constitution despite widespread unrest until there is a violent revolution and even then only gives the smallest token concessions because he wants to pretend that he's Peter the Great
>Got into a stupid war with the Austrio-hungarian empire with plans on winning it with a plan with numerous citations from Zapp Brannigan's Big Book of War
>His invasion force gets bogged down in bogs, runs out of bullets in 6 months and gets beaten back by the Germans, who had a smaller population and were also fighting the British and the French in the west
>Abdicates once everyone gets fed up with his bullshit and hates him
>Said bullshit allowed for the Communists to take over and resulted in a devestating civil war in which millions died, among them being the dumbass
>Is remembered as a martyr and a saint by Monarchists.
>Develops only military industries while leaving civilian industries undeveloped
Stopped reading there.
>>556156
True, he hindered the development of every single kind of industry there could've been in Russia.
>>556164
By starting the war, yes. Thin hindered further industrialization and said hindrance continued when the commies launched the revolution / civil war. Before the war however Russia was industrializing like crazy.
Who's the most important philosopher of the 20th century?
We should generally be skeptical of rank-ordering philosophers (or anything), especially without some clear criteria.
Do you mean most influential at present?
A poll of Anglo-American philosophy professors found that (not surprisingly) Wittgenstein was the most important philosopher of the 20th century.
Thus we see that ones answer to this question is probably a reflection of their philosophical views.
Cultural Marx.
>>556076
Ahah.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tours
>>555906
Thats not how you spell Odo of Aquitaine
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Toulouse_(721)
>>555906
>ignoring the siege of Byzantium.
Why is Joan so perfect /his/?
Because they cant even agree on her eye colour or hair so she fits every fetish.
Some guys like cheerleaders.
Because she's french.
Im courious about the way /his/ reads. Do you guys make notes? How do you memorize dates or names? Do you re-read alot? How long takes you on average to read a book of about 400 pages? Any tips or suggestions for a new history reader?
>>555833
I am not a reader. I want to read as well. I memorize names very well after I see them for twice or trice, they just get stuck in my head.
I can tell you, read something that interests you. I recently started reading Meditations by Marcus Aurelius and I read only 3 pages in a whole week. It's really hard for a new reader.
>not autisticly staring at Wikipedia battle charts until you remember all of the parties, commanders, and dates involved
>>555844
We're in the same page. I memorize names the same way. Dates I almost always neglect as long as I know more or less when a certain event happened.
What did German citizens think was happening with the Jews during ww2?
Most Jews were self declared enemies of the state. This pissed em off. The army took them to concentration camps as prisoners of war for their anti German leanings, but they didn't know they were being slaughtered.
After the failed Revolution of 1918 the majority of Germans simply didn't give a damn what happened to them.
>>555862
Jews =/= Communists
Don't listen to this guy OP, obvious retard.
>many people have been credited with the title of peanut-butter-inventor, among them George Washington Carver. However, he did not invent peanut butter; instead he promoted more than 300 uses for peanuts, among other crops such as soy beans and sweet potatoes
300 uses for peanut butter, none of which survive to this day, and he couldn't think up peanut butter?
You either eat them as peanuts, or you eat them as peanut butter, 300 uses my asss.
Fucking pathetic.
Who else is remembered from history who was utterly worthless?
>>555538
Yes, I did watch American Dad too.
>>555542
I've never watched american dad.
I heard Obama talking about George Washington Carver, so I googled him and was thoroughly disgusted.
>He didn't invent peanut butter therefore he is utterly worthless
American as fuck.
Prove me wrong
>you can't
>>555413
He started the resistance only to start killing off all political enemies fighting on the same side, murdering them simply for not wanting to join the partisans. Tito's communists are the reason there was a civil war in Slovenia. He had thousands upon thousands of people, both civilians and paramilitary, murdered towards the end of the war and after it.
His economical policy led the country to ruin through debt. He wanted all of the nations to be equal by taking from the developed part of the federation and giving to the poor parts, effectively keeping Slovenia (and to a lesser extent Croatia) far behind the rest of Europe.
>>555413
He ejected Ðilas for suggesting heightening the revolution.
ZA DOM SPREMNI
Why did insect and arachnid consumption come to be seen as a taboo in the west?
Is it a holdover from Jeiwsh dietary laws? If so, then why are so many of the other dietary laws not kept? Why do westerners see other arthropods, specifically crustaceans like lobsters and crabs, as edible, even as delicacies, but not insects and arachnids?
Because arthropods are fucking nasty. And I mean objectively nasty, not just a result of cultural bias, it's probably a leftover in our genetic memory from a period when our early ancestors were hunted by gigantic fucking arthropod predators for literally hundreds of millions of years.
>>555218
this is a completely modern thing, peasants of the past thought nothing of insects in their food
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardtack
In colder climates you don't get as many large insects as you do in a place like Java where you have nice big crunchy crickets. This is part of it.
The association of insects with disgust probably arose with the discovery of bacteria and the development of what clean and sanitary looks like which involves zero insects of any kind, bacteria carrying flies or harmless plant eating crickets.
Because bugs are gross dude, only poor people eat bugs
I seriously doubt many rich asians would eat bugs over meat
So, I'm actually excited for this to come out. I feel like I'm almost totally alone in that. What are some good books /his/ has been reading lately?
Will be digging into this when it arrives in a week!
Dyalogus Creaturan Moralizatus. It's a medieval book that some monk wrote about a bunch of moral teachings, it's presented as fables with animals n shit. Pretty interesting. Very heavy influence from christianity's teachings, the author often qoutes the bible and works about roman emperors, and alexander the great. Easy read, would recommend.
>>555130
I went to buy something two days ago.
So /his/, I have some questions and opinions I'd like to share to get a discussion started. First of all, was H. floresiensis a modern human with island dwarfism, or was it a separate species altogether? Did H. sapiens coexist on the island of Flores with them?
I'm of the opinion that they were a distinct species, because of the different structure of the cranium. Their brains must have been very different from ours. I'm also of the opinion that they lived in direct contact with modern humans. The legend of the Ebu Gogo could be compared to the idea that Trolls were actually Neanderthals that were morphed into folklore.
>inb4 paleoanthropology is /sci/
>>555109
I think the theory that they were an island dwarf form of Homo erectus seems most likely.
They survived till ~17,000 years ago, and humans were in Australia long before this, so i'd assume there was contact between them and modern humans.
I find it interesting that even though their brain size is more comparable to Australopithecus they have a more advanced style of tools.
>>555124
Supposedly brain size has little to do with intelligence. It's more about the structure of the brain.
>>555109
The best way to answer your first question wouls be to observe the skull of a modern midget, but I have yet to come across an image with such a skull.
Tell me about the history of this flag.
>>555019
It's made of rape
>>555019
St. Andrew's Cross to show their Anglophilia just like the US' flag was an adaptation of the BIC's flag to show their Jewery.
>>555019
it comes to show all the liberty and democracy crap if there for the gullible masses because as soon as some parts of USA try to get their own shit going they'd get stomped
