Historically speaking, why have African Americans been such a cultural juggernaut in the USA?
>>2017905
Constraints enforce creativity.
>>2017905
Because they aren't part of mainstream American life in the same sense that other races are.
high testosterone and being poor with nothing better to do
Do you think homeless people are any more spiritually in touch than we are, or are they just victims of materialism same as us?
tl;dr are hobos noble?
They're schizophrenics who don't have a comfy state mental hospital to call home because of liberals and "muh civil rights" in the 60s claiming the mentally ill should be allowed to live "in duh cawmyuneetee"
>>2017857
No, they have the same material desires as non-hobos. The only difference is that hobos are unable to fulfill them.
>>2017857
Only the ones that regularly use psychedelics are.
Let's make greentexts out of historical events. I'll begin
>be me
>big war is finally over, decide to go out and celebrate with friends
>decide to go see a movie
>sit down, get nice and comfy
>some faggot walks down the row below me and sits directly in front of me
>this fag has the biggest fucking hat I've ever seen, blocking all of our views
>I'm fed up, fire a .32 into his fucking skull
>turns out he was president Lincoln
>police chase me down and I die in a burning barn
>Mfw
>be me
>be king of england
>wife wont give male heir
>really need one to secure dynasty
>can't get divorce from pope because wife is holy roman emperor's aunt
>spend 7 years trying to get divorce
>tfw no pussy for 7 years because anne won't let me have other mistresses
>still no divorce
>fuck it, just give pope the finger and declare myself head of the church of england
>new wife gives me daughter
>wew lad
>its okay we'll have sons soon
>two stillborns
>gonnahavetobeheadabitch.jpeg
>have jousting accident
>now my leg hurts
>still have no son
>mfw
>>2017782
>be me
>walking down street with friends
>see some guy in a car
>shoot him
>try to drown self
>fail
>ohwell.jpg
>>2019570
Princip?
Can we get an art history thread going? I'm trying to figure out what "style" this image is painted in or what "period" of art history it most closely resembles.
looks like art deco desu
>>2017728
Looks like Art Nouveau to me but I'm a pleb. Modernism would be the period.
>>2017728
Source?
How was the PLA, still on the heels of fighting a civil war, so effective against a coalition of some of the most modern & well equipped armies in the world?
Zerg rush
>>2017705
the PLA took pretty horrendous casualties.
I often see hate for utilitarianism here and I don't know why. So what are the flaws of utilitarianism
>>2017704
utilitarianism is a subset of classical liberalism, itself a subset of liberalism, which is just shit society.
>>2017731
Why
>>2017704
Anthropocentrism.
By focusing on what's best for us we misinterpret the causal relationships with world around us. To see ourselves as the system rather than one of the many interdependent constituents of the system. It places no intrinsic value on non sentient life or biodiversity.
In today's day of ecological understanding, an anthropocentric wordveiw isn't just outdated, it's an evolutionary anachronism
>>2017704
Anthropocentrism.
By focusing on what's best for us we misinterpret the causal relationships with world around us. To see ourselves as the system rather than one of the many interdependent constituents of the system. It places no intrinsic value on non sentient life or biodiversity.
In today's day of ecological understanding, an anthropocentric wordveiw isn't just outdated, it's an evolutionary anachronism https://www.google.com/amp/s/sydkab.com/2013/02/14/evolutionary-anachronisms/amp/
From a time when we needed to veiw the world from a human centric viewpoint in order to survive in the wild.
But in today's evolutionary novel habitat, where we have more or less conquered our old selection pressures. This worldview has become malignant, allowing for the grossly unsustainible use of our resources. It's devo, this is what the band devo was trying to say.
That's not to say utlitairainism doesn't have utility, forcing us to accept the suggestions of ecological thinkers out of self perseveration. Maybe we can adopt a brand of ecological utilitarianism before degrade "our" earth system beyond the point of no return
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU
http://newsexaminer.net/food/mcdonalds-to-open-restaurant-run-by-robots/
http://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2016/04/25/surprisingly-these-10-professional-jobs-are-under-threat-from-big-data/#7c437b284e10
https://www.ft.com/content/0c85c3f8-8691-11e3-885c-00144feab7de
I sure hope none of you or your relatives work as a truck driver. Or a taxi driver. Or driver of any kind. Or a loader. Or a fast-food industry worker. Or a paralegal. Or a lower-end manger. Or a blue-colar of any kind, aside from maybe cleaning (of toilets and the like, not the floors) and couple services requiring complex and adaptive fine motor skills.
You're none of those? Excellent. Then you better stock up on ammo and start digging moats around your house for when unemployed 40% of the global population starts rioting due to being very obsolete and very hungry.
great history thread
If a great depression is back on the menu than that means fascism is too.
Can't wait until I get my SS uniform and am allowed to harass shitskins.
>>2017594
mmm sexy
Was he for low taxes and smaller government?
>>2017344
No. He was totally the big government type.
>>2017344
Big government, high tariffs that screwed over the South, unconstitutionally large role of the president
wouldn't know his true policy since big ass civil war
but he did make the gov't bigger to solve said war
Why is he so brilliant and influential?
Ashkenazi genetics
maybe 100 years ago
>brilliant
He wasn't, in fact he was a retard
>influential
Lots of retards in the world
I must write an essay. What themes do you recommend?
>>2017134
Aztec culture.
>>2017134
The fearsome Italian army
>>2017134
Nicky.
You will never be greater than him
>Spain fell to his [Caesar's] lot as quaestor; when there, as he was going the circuit of the province, by commission from the praetor, for the administration of justice, and had reached Gades, seeing a statue of Alexander the Great in the temple of Hercules, he sighed deeply, as if weary of his sluggish life, for having performed no memorable actions at an age at which Alexander had already conquered the world. He, therefore, immediately sued for his discharge, with the view of embracing the first opportunity, which might present itself in The City, of entering upon a more exalted career.
At least one can git gud.
>>2017104
That's interesting and somewhat inspiring, thank you
>alexander the """"""""""""""""""""""great""""""""""""""""""""""""""
This is the oldest photo on the internet.
Not likely. Its editing is too modern.
>>2017060
and the women were already skanks and men already betas trying to please them.
>>2017097
http://gizmodo.com/5924748/heres-the-first-picture-ever-posted-on-the-internet
How would have the Romans dealt with Islamic terrorism?
They'd start by losing Africa and the Near East. Then they would go to and fro in Anatolia for a few centuries, before losing that too. Finally, they would lose Constantinople.
/wetasoctober/
They would persecute the muslims, then the emperor converts to Islam to avoid a civil war and within one generation everyone is muslim. This is what they did with the christians, so why not with the muslims ?
Is Eliezer Yudkowsky the most rational person alive?
>>2016801
No, he's nothing but a meme
>>2016801
who are we to judge whether or not someone is the most rational person alive? to be able to say so would require a level of rationality that is perfect which would make you the most rational person or am i wrong
>>2016834
Would a "meme" have written a 120 chapter Harry Potter fanfiction about science?
Why Native Americans and Australian Aborigines were not as technologically advanced as Europeans?
didn't have useful animals to domesticate (among other reasons)
isolation. the eurasian strip in general was where modern civilization as we know it formed. australia, the americas and sub saharan africa were mostly or completely isolated from these trade routes.
Inferior race, anything other is just rationalizations to not admit the truth.