Post your favourite 21st century intellectual
>>2103597
>intellectual
>>2103597
Yaneer Bar-Yam probably
Thank you for trying to warn us, based Gore
Axes are not as good cutting weapons as sword. Not as good blunt/piercing weapons as maces, and doesn't have the reach of spear.
Plus, you have to swing it, unlike a spear.
So, I get that axes are like a cheepo sword that has some piercing ability, but whats the point of the great-axe?
You want a weapon to fight unarmored people, use a spear. If you want to fight armored foes, use a mace/hammer. You can afford either of those if you can afford a great-axe.
So whats the point?
>>2102260
It's great and it's an axe.
>>2102260
uhhh... you can chop down trees with it? I imagine thats usefull
>>2102260
They were pretty good at felling horses.
*blocks your path*
>>2111944
*teleports behind u*
>>2111950
The unified wall wasnt even up when they were around.
>>2111958
preddy bad excuse
How much did he solo the Soviet Union /his/?
>>2111711
>cuck
>I couldn't handle weather that only took 5% of russia's prison poppulation when 99% russians have to live through the same everyday outside of prison
he was a failure of a slav and to the motherland
>>2111721
How much did he contribute towards the overall collapse of the USSR?
>>2111725
Enough to get a Nobel peace prize, like Gorbachev.
Hello /his/, im new here and i dont understand any of your memes and have a very poor overview of the recorded history of humanity, so i was wondering:
(In your opinion) what is the best (free) online course, or set of documentaries, or book, that can take me from the begginings of civilization up to the XX or XXI century?
I am prepared to study it with effort and taking written notes and everything, just want to make sure that i am studying the best material i can.
The best thing i have found so far is John Greens Crash Course.
Thanks for the responses and greetings from Mexico.
There are some great podcasts, my current favorites are
>The History of Philosophy Without any Gaps
The dude is a philosophy professor who starts with the presocratics and continues on from there
>The History of Rome
Really well done overview of everything from the founding of Rome in the mists of time to the fall of the western empire
I'm sure there are other ones too.
I recommend reading as many historical or primary sources as you can. Find a point in history that interests you and kind of use that as a reference point starting out.
Have fun!
>>2111604
Thanks, i have already started a philosophy course that starts from the presocratics, its by doctor Richard Brown on youtube.
I havent really ever tried podcasts before so i will check out "The History of Rome"
>Find a point in history that interests you and kind of use that as a reference point starting out.
I had tought of this too, but before i do something like that i would like to at least know all the main points of history, if i cant find a good source i will probably start with ancient greece or mesopotamia.
Thanks
>>2111652
Not the other guy but podcasts are amazing. So much better than listening to the same Set of Songs every day on your way to work/class or at the gym.
Podcasts have made the boring tasks in my life so much more fun.
My tipp for a fun history podcast would be Dan Carlins Hardcore history. Take him with a grain of salt since he isnt a real historian and loves extreme stories but listening to him is super comfy and its also a nice start into random episodes of human history.
>tfw to intelligent to study history
this /sci/ meme is growing out of control lmao
>tfw to intelligent to study literally anything
>not reading strictly mathematics, logic, philosophy, economics, and quantum physics
Why haven't you ended your life you worthless husk
Anybody ever been to this website or heard what this guy preaches? It's actually very interesting because he teaches the bible according to the commandment of the everlasting God, something I have never heard in church. Also he talks about the apostle Paul, how we're supposed to follow him because that's who God wants us to follow. And also, I had to read it myself, he starts off with preaching the first four chapters of Romans and i actually can say that I know that I am being justified freely. I heard some people putting him down because he's rude but everything he teaches seems to be right on.. oh, and he only uses the bible, no other books. His name is Martin richland and he has a ministry called the scriptures alone bible school
Martin richling not richland
>>2111157
Bumping for flavor
>108 billion people have been born
>maybe like 30 have made any lasting impact
how do you cope
>30
Way more than that. Also, because I'm one of them.
Guess which one I am.
>tfw not born the son of exoirbantly rich and powerful politician
there's no point in living.
prety sure every action ever taken has a lasting impact senpai
I mean I feel you. I feel like this is the weakness of atheism. I believe that a part of me lives on, so every action I take should be for the greater good of my immortal soul, and helping others is a side consequence
What was the general education and culture like in China during Mao's era?
Video related https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBuKx3PgmNw
>>2111119
>Is it non-practical like Humanities?
>Yes?
>Lol get the fuck out of here, we need engineers n shiet.
>Take STEM shit alright.
>Half of your classes is political theory.
dad says they focused on math and reading more than any kind of sciences
also a bit of skewed history but not much
if you don't have money good luck getting to high school
>>2111166
>not much
wew
Why do people from the past appear to speak/write so formally?
Now, this seems like a retarded question, and my best guess is that only the educated new how to write, and thus all we have left from their time is the 'cream of the crop', but is there another reason?
Are we really so informal now compared to the past? Again, obvious, but did it seem normal to them at the time?
Was there just some more hardline culturally reason to write formally? I don't doubt regular guys spoke similar to how we do now, but you see their letters home from a war or something and it's like their robots.
Formal versus Informal writing.
You are sending a letter back to your honey? Nigga, that's formal.
You are carving graffiti into a wall? Nigga, that's informal.
Both are shown, we just have a shit load more pieces of formal writing. The why of it is precisely the same as now, except perhaps social standards have changed to allow for the conflation of informality into typically formal areas.
http://www.pompeiana.org/Resources/Ancient/Graffiti%20from%20Pompeii.htm
OP a crucial things to understand is that through the ages, what survived the most were official documents which have always been and still are written very formally. In 2000 years there are more chances that what will survuve will be UN resolution texts than some some random text messages written by some dumb teenagers.
I think a good example would be Cicero, because amazingly enough his private correspondence that was never meant to be published managed to survive to our days. There's a stark contrast between the official Cicero of "In Catillinam" where the text is clear and his private mail. In Catillinam is concise and very epurated, to a level it's considered basic translation material for highschool courses because of it's form (if you can't be bothered to learn latin to appreciate this, just listen to any Obama speech from 2008-9, they're all very Ciceronian).
On the other hand his private mail is a whole different story. It's full of borrowed greek words because Cicero and his friend were big greekboos, there are a lot of stupid inside jokes, puns, run-on sentences, etc. There's also the fact that this mail shows Cicero as someone very indecisive and sometimes awkward which is a big contrast to Cicero's public speeches which are always straight to the point.
Why does Africa have so many interesting tribes?
>>2111039
its a big place
They're a big landmass
Probably just because you're knowledgeable enough of history to notice all of them, and think they're interesting because they're so vastly different from Western cultures.
If Africa had become the center of world power, the "West", then likely they would look at European cultures with the same fascination. Ethnomusicologists would study Bach, and anthropologists would search deep into icy fjords for long-lost tribes.
I'm getting a bit alternate-history here aren't I?
What are some memoirs or films (documentary or otherwise) that deal with German civilian experience during WWII or in the immediate aftermath of the end of the war?
Himmel und Huhn (2005)
>>2110954
In the Butt and out the Mouth, my time as a Russian Rapist, by Dmitri Alexandovirovich.
Little dieter wants to fly
Horus Heresy
>British honestly expected Americans to side with a colonial power over a former subject fighting for their own land
You have to say the word "communist" at least like four times before we'll do that, and Churchill already used up that card with Iran.
>Britains FW they fucked up at Munich and they'll never be a world power again because of it
Can we discuss the historical misconception of the Asian "human wave" attacks that you see regurgitated in any WWII/Korea/Nam discussion that is even prevalent in the mainstream media
>>2110794
Well in the korean war it wasnt really a meme. Furthermore the PVA was merely applying tactics it had learned from the soviets (and ironically) from the German instructors who taught squad level infantry tactics prior to 1941.
It was also hugely successful in part due to UN underestimation (dude chinese people cant fight LMAO).
The problem is that the tactical considerations which made it successful were portrayed as the political superiority of the People's War thanks to Mao and his autism.
So when you get to the Sino Vietnamese war the PLA is still using these outdated concepts to fight the NVA in a very different sphere of operations and they were far less successful.
In WW2 the reason for the human wave meme was because
1) Japan didnt have the resources to make combined arms warfare work
2) Insofar as the Chinese theatre the above was compounded by inland China having almost no infrastructure so to speak and making it very difficult to conduct operations out of
For the chinese
1) almost not industrial capability so to speak, even their small arms werent uniform and a logistical nightmare
>>2110824
By work i mean compare all the tanks and you'll find the Japanese ones were by far and away the shittiest
>>2110824
But you are still repeating the false meme. No one accuses Germany of utilizing "human wave" tactics for storm troopers during WWI yet misunderstanding basic shock trooper tactics and dehumanization propaganda is why people still believe this nonsense
QUICK examples on how governments tried to distort the past, lie about the present and make false claims about the future.
I'm going to bet this thread will be deleted by the 30 reply mark because /his/ mods only delete /pol/ bait that can potentially yield interesting conversation for some reason.
>>2110636
2 of those aren't history
Rhodesian government insisting that Great Zimbabwe couldn't have been built by blacks out of fear that it would stoke black nationalist sentiment.