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Where do i go to if I want to find good documentaries about big historical movements without them being biased or loose with the truth?
I'm looking for documentaries about the
Chinese Cultural Revolution and the Soviet
Union in particular.

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Guess what year this photo was taken in, whoever gets it right then posts another photo from history and whoever guesses that one right posts one and so on

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How long until literature has fully atrophied in to art gallery style art where it is halfassed social signalling fodder for the middle and upper classes?

It is lollable watching MFA topics on lit when Shakespeare and Dickens had as much formal education as 12 year olds today and wrote for people with even less. It makes the halfbaked intellectual reverence for their works funnier ("you need to memorise the Bible and have ten PhDs to understand them").

It's over for literature. It goes through what all art forms go through. It is made possible initially by new technology. It is a hobbyist activity that is seen as eccentric and then dismissed as a manchild activity when it gets more attention. It is criticised as not worthwhile due to its use of new technology and is criticised according to the standards of old art forms. It becomes more popular and business, big business, and women enter. The expected events occur.

Eventually it is over intellectualised by pseudo intellectuals who try to gain social status through the activity, not through the application of hard work and technique needed to create, but through signalling (being vocal about their likes / dislikes and their hatred of people with different opinions) or through dishonest creation. What distinguishes this "dishonest creation" with honestly bad / gimmicky creations of the past is the intellectual / moral veneer proclaimed by the artist / followers along with a genuine LACK OF ENJOYMENT by people who experience the art.

When people get away with this it a because the hobbyist and honestly experimental groups along with a large portion of the consumers who "merely" want enjoyment (crucial for the art form to be supported) have moved on to another art form which uses more advanced technology.

The pseudo intellectuals become more dominant through the media and artistic sorting processes. The art form is dead from a developmental point of view and eventually becomes a vessel for pure attention seeking.

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Why is humanism seen as an inherently good thing in popular, secular society?

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You are given the opportunity to travel 25 years or more back in time to any period or place in recorded history for a week. Your wealth, status, and appearance during this period will become relative to that which you have now. Nothing you do during this period will have bearing on the course of history. Nonetheless, you're given the ability to speak the predominant tongue of where you're visiting for the duration of the trip. You'll have no trouble chatting with the locals.

You're also able to bring back a couple of souvenirs. Provided they aren't obscenely difficult to acquire. Furthermore, they can't be too large or historically pertinent (you won't be able to bring back a tank or the holy grail).

Where do you go, and what do you bring back?

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>ywn be a 4th-century Roman Emperor
>ywn wage war against filthy barbarians from germany and your persian rivals
>ywn be Illyrian

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Any good books on political history?

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Hello /his/ I was wondering if any of you have ever taken the CLEP exam for history of the United States from 1500-1877?
The test covers 30% from 1500-1789
70% from 1789-1877

If you haven't taken the test what are the most important things to have happened during these times in U.S. history?

If you have taken this test can you give me pointers on specifics to study?

The breakdown for the test is:

30% Political Institutions, Political development, and Public Policy

25% Social Developments

15% Cultural & Intellectual Developments

15% Diplomacy & International Relations

10% Economic Development

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I don't understand how an animal can perceive something with sight and with hearing capabilities and be able to react to them yet still not be concious. And then you think about animals like messenger pigeons, or monarch butterflies and how the are basically just biologically programmed to just know to migrate to the same place every year? How can creatures be so intelligently programmed and have such keen senses, yet they lack the ability to feel emotion? Empathy?


Pic related, it's my red claw crab. what is going on in his brain ?

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Why Hitler was awarded Man of the Year by Time Magazine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXNxUiVZO5s

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>Spend entire life building an empire
>Die

What's the point?

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Having a disagreement with my professor regarding my senior project about whether or not the 15th century is medieval.

I was surprised to hear her say that the 1400's were not really considered medieval, but more or less the beginning of the Renaissance. I'd thought that this transfer begins between the fall of the ERE and the discovery of America by Columbus. I'm kind of buttblasted over the whole thing because I'm writing about sport and game in the late middle ages and some of the best sources I've found are from the 15th and late 14th centuries, specifically for Jousting (almost nothing on Chess).

Other than that, medieval sport thread?

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Anyone here study urban design?

I've been doing some reading and I've noticed that urban design (theory, at least) follows with how people view communism/capitalism

1. Beginning of the industrial revolution, capitalism is at full blast. Cities are a mess, dirty, crowded and somewhat grim
2. theorists (Howard, Olmsted) propose some more coherent zoning and greening of the cities as methods to make these urban spaces more desirable
3. some guys take the meme too far (La corbusier) and idealize cities that are zoned for efficiency and driving, prescribed green space and skyscrapers.
4. you get shit like Broadacre city which is super zoned out and spread out cuz muh communication and ease of transportation, but it's grossly inefficient and a blight, but you also get people like Dorothy Hayden who think of shit like communal living because it's not sexist
5. then you start to get the less pragmatic ways back again, with people pushing for more street culture and community involvement to get the most out of everything. Bigger cities = more eco friendly. More public places to interact. A more enjoyable city life.

I'm not necessarily capitalist or communist, but does what I'm saying kind of follow?

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STOP RIGHT THERE SQUIRE

SHOW ME THY SIEGE FACE