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>>3041269
As someone who wrote his PhD thesis on how Socrates is completely unknown and forgotten, and all we know and attribute to him is actually Plato using his name to push his own ideas forward, I will give you one advice: Don't include sock Muppets in your visual presentation, 3 in 4 committee members don't appreciate it.
Also don't eat mexican food the day before.

>>3041254
Caliphornia would become the world power.

>>3041257
hehe

>>3041257
LOL, that was epic

Germany.

I only know a little about the history British policing (i think the Brits had the first modern police anyway) from my law days. But basically, crime was often left to the victim or their family to prosecute. Of course this was terribly unfair to poor citizens who were not educated or able to afford representation.

As a result, vigilantism was pretty common. The military was utilised for keeping public order and the State was involved in crimes such as treason etc, but on the whole private prosecutions was the norm.

For example, 'theif-takers' were pretty common. Bascially, they are just guys who apprehended thiefs and prosecuted them on behalf of paying victims.

There were Parish Constables as well, but there weren't really police in the modern sense, but they were certianly the forerunner to Robert Peel's Metropolitan Police Service that was introduced in around 1830.

These were the first salaried, professional police officers in the UK and Europe, (Maybe the world? I'm not sure) that we would today recognise as police and perform pretty much the same role.

it started with cities and with the state seizing the right to use violence, about 19th century

before that it was linked to local judicial functions, you needed to catch a thief, you got the sherrif(or the equivalent of it whatever it was called anywhere) of the county with a few men and that was it

in europe it was divided into cities and countrysides

gendarmerie on the countryside, a more militaristic approach as the enviroment was more rigid, police in cities

At least in America, I'm pretty sure policing really started proper with the Pinkerton's in the mid-19 century.

Apparently they were originally hired to protect gold mine interests by private companies, and after a while I think states and counties realized it was a bad idea having private companies do that and raised taxes to employ sheriffs and deputies.

>>3041152
-Aguirre is a classic
-El Dorado from Saura
-Cabeza de Vaca (Mexican movie)
-TV Show Carlos el emperador has Cortez fucking around in cuba
-conquest of paradise is horrible dont watch it

>>3041175
Thanks, I'll check these out.

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> Oh yes, indeed, Socrates, I often wonder like mad what these things can mean; sometimes when I'm looking at them I begin to feel quite giddy.

> I dare say you do, my dear boy... For this is an experience which is characteristic of a philosopher, this wondering: this is where philosophy begins and nowhere else. And the man who made Iris [the rainbow, messenger between earth and heaven] the child of Thaumas [which means "wonder"] was perhaps no bad genealogist.

>ur mom - socrates, prolly

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Childhood is accepting Platon's account of Socrates.
Adolescence is accepting Xenophon's
Retardation is accepting Aristophanes'
Wokehood is realizing that Antisthenes was the true student of Socrates, and that Cynicism was the true school of Socrates.

>>3040953
>>/lit/

Just to be clear that's banter and unless you're a tankie or a Nazi you're welcome here :).

Aboriginies. I'm far more interested in European or post-colonial history than any others, but when idiots claim Native Americans or Asians never did anything I'll argue in their defense. But Aboriginies are the one culture who literally did nothing. The only impact they have ever had was as a small obstacle for the british colonization of the continent they never used.

>>3040526

oh blimey, I didn't even think about the history of aboriginal peoples, that's like considering the history of deer, it simply wouldn't come to mind as having existed

>>3040484
Andaman Islanders would be a good candidate, but they're an interesting anomaly.

>>3040460
Bump

MERITOCRACY IS A FLAWED SYSTEM OF GOVERNANCE; THE MOST TECHNICALLY ABLE, OR THE MOST APT AT ACHIEVING CONCRETE GOALS, ARE NOT NECESSARILY THE NOBLEST, SO, TO ESTABLISH MERIT AS THE PRIME HIERARCHICAL CRITERION IS SUBOPTIMAL; NOBILITY, AND EXCELLENCE, SHOULD BE THE PRIME HIERARCHICAL CRITERIA —ARISTOCRACY, NOT MERITOCRACY.

>>3040356
Read Micheal Young's Rise of Meritocracy when he coined that word. Basically elites buy into the meritocracy without actually enforcing it so they shed any noblesse oblige their privilege brings.

Also equality of opportunity does not mean giving everyone in an unequal society equal opportunities

>>3040304
>>>/tv/
>>>/mu/
>musical
>>>/cm/

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No not really.

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>>3040264

More.

They all do, rapebabies are a meme pushed by the cuck lobby

>tfw people believe this
>tfw people don't realize that the death positions of people at Pompeii are not the positions they died in but the positions that their muscles reflexively assumed after their death due to the intense heat

>>3040133
>Dude whacked off so often his body instinctively assumed the position before death because if felt hot