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>>3170288
>88

I think 'failed state' or 'polyarchy' is the best description of Japan at the time.

>>3170204
Yes

I wonder what would happen if they succeeded.

>>3170204
No.
>>3170309
Balkan scenario.

IMO Too many assasinations of capable heirs mixed with bad luck.

>>3170198
Harem rosties had too much power

>>3170198
Ever wonder why the only achievements of Turks you hear about is conquest? Turks can't into culture or technological advancement. It took them for fucking ever to accept the Printing Press, after about 1600 all they did was conquer weak Muslim lands and grow more and more corrupt and useless like all Turk Empires. While they were degenerating the west was having breakthroughs in all fields and finding a way to trade to Asia without needing to go through the Middle-east the Ottomans didn't have an answer to this development.

Even the advanced Cannon they used to take Constantinople wasn't even made by them.

What does some 3DPD slut have to do with any of that?

>>3170174

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>>3170170
People meme and say it will kill everything, but I call bullshit on that. Granted it will be terrible, but it ain't gonna destroy humanity. Maybe even 50% will thanks to the famines and nuclear winter, but that will subside and we might even go through a new dark age for awhile. Basically, it will be the age of the rural survivalists and when the underdog civilizations get a chance to be top dog, like the ones in africa, the pacific, and perhaps even the central asians.

>>3169893
An invented history has to be established as fact int the minds of the people.

that's pretty much it.

I'm sorry but old chap Bertie Aynstington is English

Cultural and societal movement that took course in mid to late 18th century in America and Europe.

Its main traits are secularism, tolerance, constitutionalism, emphasis on reason rather on faith.

>>3169451
The celts lived beyond the alps too.

>>3169451
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisalpine_Gaul

goddamn retard

>>3169451
Geographic variation actually promotes localism. The whole reason why despotic regimes form everywhere else on Eurasia was because they're mostly wide open spaces which lend themselves to rapid conquest by hordes of horsemen and/or light infantry, and in these instances victory always goes to the better organized force.

Celtic culture was simply too fractured to provide that level of organization, which is why the Romans were able to pick them apart through divide and conquer

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>>3169435
>why do people still read Plato
ftfy

>he didn't get that The Republic isn't about a literal city and is instead a treatise on metaphysics, the soul, and musical theory
Dude, you're getting stumped by philosophy that's literally two thousand years old. Go back and reread it, this time actually pay attention.

>only relationships with women are Platonic

>>3169280
*what is /his/ opinion on him?

sorry

I like him, but after I've watched most of his lectures, he really doesn't say anything new.

Which is fine I mean, he doesn't have to continuously reinvent himself, but I guess after the novelty of what he's saying wears off, you tend to move on to other topics and thinkers.

But he was very valuable to listen to.

>He makes a lot of claims regarding patriarchy being fake

As someone who has watched all of his lectures I more often have heard him say that "Yes we live in a _______ patriarchy, obviously..." and affirming it and making an argument for why the existence of patriarchal society isn't a bad thing.

Alot of what he says is based in metaphysics so if you don't give credence to anything in that vein then he is basically a waste of time. But if you are like me and like listening to a high iq frog man wax autistic about the old testament he is pretty interesting. Both of his recent university lecture series and his new biblical one is fantastic.

>>3169122
No but closer to the truth than Rousseau

>>3169135
that's not difficult, since Rousseau was completely wrong

I think he was too extreme with how much government should control you. Locke is pretty much his happy medium.