>Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
"Historical trends, such as traditionalist/rationalist forces being opposed to leftist/progressive forces during times of great social upheaval apply only to the U.S. and for whatever reason this is unique to the U.S. because it is also a democracy
nice quote ASSimov
>>1869065
You genocide poor people
American "intellectualism" has brainwashed millions of young people into radical leftists that style themselves intellectuals while possessing the traits of hardcore fundamentalists.
throughout the ages, yet Islam stayed pretty stagnant from the Middle Ages?
Christianity only evolved where there were whites and particularly Northwestern European whites. Southern Europeans (Catholics), and Eastern+Oriental Orthodox are just as stagnant as Muslims
Basically whites "progress"--though that's not necessarily positive--while non-whites simply don't
>>1868074
Islam has many sects and had many herseys that turned into different sects. So the religion did evolve in that way. Usually because of different interpretations of the Quran.
With that said, Islam is considered unchanging. The Quran is the "last word of God," Muhammad was the "last prophet," and all that. Muslims pride themselves on how the Quran has not changed. I cannot recall the word Muslims give to this. If I remember it I'll post back here.
>>1868098
This is a joke right?
why was the Japanese right so militant during the 60s?
and why did they like the Emperor so much? He basically betrayed Japan (in their eyes) by surrendering, didnt he?
Penis envy. At the time they had yet to realize that they worked best as Newhalfs.
Y'all ever talk history with friends/coworkers?
>Be on break at work
>Talking about history
>Not sure how it comes up but we talk about WWII
>Both my grandfathers served in the US army.
>Grandfather of the dude I'm talking to also served
>Assume he served for the US
>Talked about how little food he was given and how they were starving in Germany in winter
>He said they came across a frozen field of potatoes and ate them for years
>A pretty strange story for an American soldier to experience
>Also, how did they just come across a field of frozen potatoes in the middle of a war torn landscape?
>He says "the Russian troops weren't given much to eat"
>"Oh you're grand dad was a Red Army soldier!"
>Remember stories of how the Red Army raped millions of German women and children
>Murdered innocents by the fuck load
>Images of the bodies of poor German's raped to death by Soviet hands flood my mind
>My coworkers' dad most likely murdered and raped the people who owned the farm and stole their food
>Most likely murdered and raped a lot of other people as well.
>My coworker doesn't know much about history so I'm not sure if he knew what went on during the Soviet advance.
I have spoken to a lot of WWII veterans and people who experienced the war. I knew an old man who remembered the Soviet push and was raped by Soviet soldiers when he was a very young boy. You can't forget seeing an old man cry. It is very difficult for me to talk about WWII with people who don't know much about the conflict. When I meet someone who is proud of his family member who served in the most evil, morally inept army since Genghis Khan, I can't help by feel sickened and angry.
Have y'all ever had any similar experiences?
I'm from an ex-commie country so people have been brainwashed with some made-up history since they were children, so there's that. It's nearly impossible to talk about USSR or Russia without some idiot starts to defend them as God's chosen people who saved the world.
>>1864240
>y'all
You're the pleb here
>>1864292
Fucking really? Despite the fact they most likely have family members murdered by that regime?
>Jewish art
>>1863014
Art for art's sake is worthless.
>>1863014
Rothko is phenomenal. He managed to make art that's intensely emotional while bypassing traditional demands of representation. His paintings lack the sterility of most early 20th Fe they modernism but are still intensely innovative.
Why do you dislike him?
What was the worst idea ever?
& humanities
4chan
War.
Or maybe ketchup.
How do i become a berserker?
>>1859652
Get PTSD, don't treat it, continue to put yourself under extreme combat stress.
You have fits of emotional deadness and uncontrolled fury where in you see nothing as sacred and become entirely fearless.
The Berserker rage is at the heart of PTSD, it is the final stage.
There was a study done on Vietnam vets where they would experience the same symptoms the Sagas speak of when men would Berserkergang.
>shroom fags and Norsaboos with a hard on for genetics BTFO
>>1859652
Become the bodyguard of a Norse nobleman. Berserk means "bear shirt", they didn't fight in a frenzy, they mostly fought duels on behalf of their master.
>>1859679
Where can i find a norse nobleman?
Thoughts?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-evIyrrjTTY
>>1856237
Thoughts?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhnsC2V4_0w
That is false propaganda, the land has always belonged to the jewish people. The creators of that video are muslim anti-semitic apologists.
i hate jews
Why do we have to "just believe" in God with no proof yet the Ancient Hebrews were given miracle after miracle?
It's 2016.. it's time for another miracle already
>>1861550
There are plenty of miracles nowadays, atheists just choose to disregard them:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70U2yybKhKg
>>1861550
stupid answer 1: Its a test! unless you believe without evidence it doesnt mean anything
stupid answer 2: Miracles happen all the time, your just to skeptical to believe in them.
>>1861550
You sound like an absolute child, forever demanding signs..
Was jesus a jew?
yes but modern jews are khazars.
>>1859867
DAS RITE
>>1859695
Not just a Jew but a rabbi. They found a record of him teaching at a synagogue from his "lost years" quite recently, and there's no evidence he ever eschewed any part of his Judaism, or wanted his followers to do so.
Now imagine based meme aliens transported the 210,444 people currently using 4chan to a deserted island à la Lord of the Flies.
How would leaders emerge? What issues would divide people? Could true civilization develop?
you'd see an upwards of a few hundred thousand deaths depending on the natural resources available, and then rescue would come. Men would probably attack and kill the most threatening men, and give most of the resources to the young or girls.
Most 4chan users are boring normies desu.
>>1842371
Everyone would die except the tinfoil survivalists of /k/ and /out/
>>1842384
Hi there!
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Fyrd was a perfectly fine system, the heptarchy had good governance, it had flaws but they should have been negligible if literally everything hadn't gone wrong.
Three major battles in such a short amount of time, onset on winter, and Norwegians and Normans chimping out at the same time with the help of an exiled Earl and some faggots to the south, many that one of the best places, easily the best Germanic nation, was totally fucked.
Anglo Saxon society was fucking amazing, and then all this bullshit happened and now my language is fucked up.
That's the thing about invasions, they typically don't care if you win the moral argument.
You can always drop your fucked up language in favor of old english.
Good luck.
>>1866487
>heptarchy
>1066
>1776
liberty bump
Delete this chum
Meanwhile on the relevant theater of that war
How do you deal with the fact that nothing really matters? Of course, you can self-assign meaning to things, whether it's using drugs or making a lot of money, but in the end it doesn't matter. You could win an Oscar, a Nobel Prize, the Formula 1 World Championship or make billions of dollars or take bare cock up your ass in some seedy club in Berlin while drugged out of your mind. It's all just to pass time until you slowly wither away and die (aka stop existing). And unless you are in the same tier as Jesus and Hitler, nobody will remember you in 100 years, guaranteed. And even if they do, how does that benefit you?
I find it relaxing. Every time I start beating myself up over something "I'm supposed to do but didn't", I just take a deep breath and tell myself that it's okay, because nothing matters unless I choose it to. I open Google Maps, find my apartment building, zoom out until I can see the whole city, zoom out until I can see the whole continent, zoom out until I can see the whole planet - a rock that is traveling in emptiness at a speed of over 18 miles per SECOND. That planet is part of the Solar system, which is part of a galaxy called Milky Way - and there are approximately 100-200 BILLION galaxies in the universe. And who knows, there might be more universes than the one we are in.
>>1860903
Bro, you're like so existential and shit. Really deep man; it's like you're right, nothing matters. Woah
>>1860903
Hedonism and the hope that we'll get so smart we can bend the laws of reality
Bizarre justification for not being productive with the time you have on this earth.
For me its sort of the opposite, I get depressed and irritable if I'm not doing something every day. My rest only really counts if I feel like I "earned" it after having done something productive - even if that "productive time" might be mocked as arbitrary by others.
I'll list some from the near East
>Assyrians
>Samaritans
Do you know of any other surviving ethnicities that link us to the past?
Greeks
Jews
Hindus
Chinese
Japanese
Koreans
>>1858096
Mayans, Han Chinese, Georgians, Mongols and Armenians off the top of my head.
>>1858099
Hindu isn't a ethnicity. Khmers and Malays were Hindu