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Post benevolent dictators.
>Authoritarian or autocratic rulers that oversaw great accomplishments and weren't guilty of large-scale human rights abuses (Sorry, Pinochet fans)
Pic is Albert Rene. Leader of Seychelles from 1977-2004. He turned it from a poor backwater with most of its revenue from tourism to a middle income, well governed state. He was no saint but he did a lot of good.
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>>2610631
Engelbert Dollfuss was pretty alright considering he took power in a time of crisis akin to the Russian revolution.
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Tito.
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>>2610716
I'd say he was okay other than the shit that happened before 1948 (e.g. show trials, political purge, and killing of German and Hungarian civilians living in the north).
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What are some things in ancient historical/religious/mythological texts that historians assumed to be made up, that later turned out to be true?
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The Great Flood. It was assumed to be one of those "completely made up as a legend" stories, but then archaeologists found proof of widespread flooding in Mesopotamia about 5,000 years ago. Sure, it's not exactly a world-ending flood that covered all the earth, but it shows that it did have basis in fact.
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For what its worth the same myth is in a lotta native american mythologies too. My amateur theory is it could be a memory of ancient climate change but idk
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>>2610532
The city of troy
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Is there any intellectuals that were also great fighters
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in history?
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Camillo Agrippa
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bodhidharma.
introduced martial arts and buddhism to the orientals.
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Ludolph van Ceulen
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Is it a good idea to teach myself a language using Google translate?
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That sounds terrible. Even those lazy milquetoast normie apps are a step up from that.
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>>2610505
Yeah?
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What's your favorite period of Roman history and why is it the Dominate?
>senate finally gets the btfoing it deserved
>introduction of christianity
>no more emperors who get lucky during their reign like antoninus pius
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>>2610446
>>introduction of christianity
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>not the Kingdom
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le hat meemay
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>literal huts
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What are some moments that we can use to signify the end of the dominance of postmodern thought and the beginnings of the 'contemporary'? I'm defining the 'contemporary' as the marriage between corporate interests and postmodern thought, in a way negating postmodernist teleology by co-opting it into the capitalist system.
I think it can be as early as the establishment of the Working Group on Indigenous Populations in 1982. It leads to corporate-sponsored exhibitions of indigenous art and the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in 1993, which is in line with a number of other events:
- YBA young British artists come to prominence, first exhibiting in 1988, general focus on monetary value on art market
- "Third Way" centre-left -- Bill Clinton elected in 1993, Tony Blair head of Labour in 1994 (PM in 1997)
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 1992, Kyoto Protocol 1997
- Arrest of Ted Kaczynski in 1996, last murder in 1995 (using modernist systems against themselves and advocating a return to nature makes me classify him as a kind of postmodernist. He was active around the right time too), maybe the Branch Davidians can be called 'postmodernist' in a way and the Waco siege in 1993 another end. The contemporary being domestic terror from McVeigh (1995) to Columbine (1999) and other mass murders.
- Harry Potter I'd class as contemporary. 1997.
- Beginning of serious 'digitisation' from 1990 -- https://www.forbes.com/sites/gilpress/2015/12/27/a-very-short-history-of-digitization/3/
- HBO original programming from the 90s onwards
International terror seems to be the beginning of whatever is after 'contemporary' but I think Zizek has claimed 9/11 was the end of postmodernism being an incursion of the Real. I'd say the WTO protests of 1999 seem to be an early indicator of contemporay's end as a dissatisfaction towards globalisation, OWS a continuation in 2011. P2P in 1999 (Napster), so we can recognise distinct phases.
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I forgot another one: 1992's The End of History and the Last Man published by Fukuyama (from 1989 essay).
Huntington's Clash of Civilizations (developed from 1992 to 1996) may pre-empt the end of the contemporary.
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>>2610431
Another: Era of 'political correctness', identified as early as 1987 but increasing usage of the term and thought in the 90s and 00s.
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>random events somehow signal the end of an intellectual movement
what even are you talking about
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>perfect leaders don't exi-
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>>2610416
>le Georgian mustache man
>"""Perfect"""
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>>2610418
>le epic U*rainian crypto Jew
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perfect systems of governance don't exis-
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>>2610375
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Leuctra
>All kids are raised as warriors since birth
>Gets rekt by army much smaller than you
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>>2610383
delete this
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dualistic monarchy leads to all kind of problems of which were all structural
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How can people still be Christian in this day and age?
>world isn't 6000 years old
>adam and eve didn't exist
>global flood never happened
>exodus never happened
>moses didn't write the torah
>jesus predicted the apocapylse would happen in the lifetime of his disciples
>jesus never claimed to be God in the synoptic gospels, biblical critics universally deem the gospel of john unhistorical
What more do you need to see that it's false?
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>>2610348
A global flood did happen thousands of years ago. This is undeniable fact.
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>christcuck starts dumping copypasta in 3... 2... 1...
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muh personal god
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Just purchased this book from the Barnes and Noble bookstore at my (surprisingly) university. Has anyone read it? What are your thoughts on it?
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>my (surprisingly) university.
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>>2612827
I too am confused by this snippet.
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>>2612833
I think he's implying that it's surprising a university bookstore would carry that book.
Which is silly, because modern academia is all about identifying and ostracizing whoever is deemed to be most like Hitler.
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Who, in your opinion, is the single most interesting historical figure?
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This BLUE-eyed enigma of a human whose genitalia and bodily functions or measurements are still a hot topic to this day. Will people still be discussing your when you've been dead for 72 years??? I doubt it!
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/thread
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ITT : We match Roman Emperors and statesmen with the 4chan board they would have browsed
Thrax was definitely /tv/
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Claudius wouod be /his/
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>>2610044
Vespasian was /diy/
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Caligula /b/
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how great would humanity be if every single nationalist movement happened
I mean, communities would have their own culture and live mostly in peace
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>>2610042
Until one country decided they needed the country next door because their great leader needs a vacation home and half the nations of the world are uninhabitable by the end of the century thanks to climate change
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boring, but safe
Cultures would have stagnated. A lot of US cultural heritage comes from being a melting pot. Tex-Mex cusines, Chinatowns, nigger music, etc.
Now imagine (because I guess that is the point of your question), if every nationality had a homogenous ethnostate. Their cultures would have thrived (not being assimilated into the dominant ones), but there would be much less of cultural exchange. There wouldn't be a Silesian nationality, which is literally western slavs being subjected to German culture for a long time, which made them distinct. There would be no Bosniaks. Clash of different cultures usually brings change and with a world, that has perfect ethnic borders, there would be no clashes and little change.
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>>2610042
You make it seem like there wouldn't be wars for resources, slaves, and people being pissed off.
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What are some examples of the Hegelian dialectic (thesis, antithesis, synthesis)?
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Hegelian dialectic works more like,
I. One or more concepts, thought to be fixed categories, are defined with precision and individuated, to be made distinct from one another. Understanding.
II. Reflection on the categories, and the apparent contradictions found within. Negative Reason.
III. The resultant category is a higher one, which resolves the contradictions between them, while embracing the constituent concepts. Positive Reason.
Further, there is the distinction of internal and external dialectic.
Sophistic dialectic is external which finds flaws in a concept which does not truly contain them.
Internal, proper dialectic, and forces flaws of a concept into a new category.
Hegelian dialectic is not a method of thought, but rather the structure and development intrinsic to the subject matter.
Dialectic is movement and change in the world and in our thoughts of the world, and is the glue that holds our thoughts together.
An example would be,
IV. Acid and alkali are separate and distinct.
V. Dissolved into one another, they lose their individual properties and are brought together.
VI. The end result is a neutral salt with new properties.
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>>2610118
Hegelian dialectic was focused mostly on the origin of ideas and ideals, wasn't it?
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>>2610035
Thesis: Nationalism
Antithesis: Socialism
Synthesis: National Socialism
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Were there any cases where castles developed into cities?
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>>2609977
yes, but it is rare to see. Blame feudalism
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Most people just built around the castles for protection. My guess for any castle cities would be northern Italy southern France
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>>2609977
you mean was there ever a City like Ministirith?
That's be awesome! but alas neh there was now.