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Why didn't any western civilizations develop calligraphy in the same manner than Arabic and East Asians did? why is Greek or Roman or Germanic or Nordic calligraphy not present until the middle ages, and even then its primitive compared to the pictograms and highly developed art of brushstroke, character, persian calligraphic pictures, etc?
or was there, and I'm just ignorant to it?
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>>1458189
At a total guess, it's probably because engraving was a big thing in Greece and Rome, don't really know about up north.
Writing on paper wasn't really done because writing on stone was where it was at.
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>>1458192
makes sense
come to think of it, lithography is much more common in europe than it is in east asia (although they make woodblock prints)
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calligraphy in the Orient is treated as a fine art, and sometimes a craft, and many people make their living selling calligraphy. it also has religious and spiritual context, especially with Buddhism
in the west, its more of a novelty. the only time I've ever seen western calligraphy (outside of the middle ages) is in advertisements and at renaissance fairs (kek)
kind of strange
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The Greatest Story NEVER Told - The Untold Story of Adolf Hitler 2016-07-25 00:50:17 Post No.1458052
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The Greatest Story NEVER Told - The Untold Story of Adolf Hitler
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How accurate is this ''documentary''? It's telling a story of how badly all the other countries treated Germany and how the German armies were some sort of liberators.
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>>1458052
Extremely inaccurate.
For instance, you'll hear how Hitler HAD to attack the USSR, because the Soviets were this crazy expansionist millenarian communist state that WAS GOING TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD IF NOT STOPPED!
It'll just gloss over how the Soviets hadn't attacked another country in 18 years before Poland, and only expanded into areas that Germany promised them in the Molotov-Ribbentorp pact, so if they were surprised about it, they really have nobody to blame.
It's pretty much the level of crude propaganda, glossing over inconvienent facts and weaving directly useful ones to paint a completely inaccurate picture.
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>>1458064
>the Soviets were this crazy expansionist millenarian communist state that WAS GOING TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD IF NOT STOPPED!
Isn't that essentially the US position from the cold war?
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>>1458094
Yes/no.
The U.S. had the view that Communism was magic kool-aid that fundamentally altered the thinking of the Russian leaders so that it was inimical to western values. They could not be reasoned with the way you could say, Britain or France.
However, they did view that fundamentally, deterrence would work. If they kept a strong military presence, mostly in the area of nuclear retaliation, they could keep the Soviets from lashing out or attempting to expand into Europe.
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When I go to Starbucks, in addition to satisfying my consumerist needs, by paying an additional $0.20, I will also fulfill my social duty to the starving children of wherever. Putting my aluminum cans, papers, and plastics into the recycling helps me to feel good about myself, despite household waste constituting a small fraction of the contents of landfills. Is pretending to care about the world pure ideology, or a mere spook?
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Spook,mainly,though if you know you're helping the children and recycling due to your own egoist nature,then it's not a spook.
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>>1458568
Spaces go after commas, my friend.
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>>1458668
Punc,tuation is a spoo.k
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What causes "brute crime" rates?
I'm not talking about theft, but really weird stuff like mothers that kill their children per 100 000 citizens, or machette homicide.
I have noticed there is great correlation with race, but even when you compare two identical ethnic groups there are disparities - for example, Tokyo pedophilia rates when compared with San Francisco's Japan town pedophilia rate.
Another question I'd like to raise is, can economic development really affect it?
I have researched data for both India and the USA, and it seems that the crime rates of these two countries have been pratically inaltered ever since the 1940s, even though the economy of both has undergone several changes trough the course of this time period.
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>mothers that kill their children per 100 000 citizens, or machette homicide
Those seem like two extremely different things...
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You've come up with a definition that is impossible to measure or compare.
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>>1457886
Read "The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life" (1994) by Richard J. Herrnstein & Charles Murray.
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Where does Wikipedia rank in terms of humanity's greatest achievements?
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Number 23
Like its great and all but if you want indepth information go elsewhere
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Pretty good. Prettaaaay prettaaaay good.
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>>1457723
>Where does Wikipedia rank in terms of humanity's greatest achievements?
Alexander's Library.
Literally invaluable.
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Why it is necessary to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith?
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Becasue the systems which uphold most of todays belief systems can be eailey denied by knowledge.
People do not want to admit they are wrong when the believe something which has been believed for a very long time.
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>knowledge
Sounds spooky
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>>1457701
They are not mutually exclusive
Was victory in Barbarossa even possible for the Germans?
The more I think about this the odds just seem too much. At best it seems like they'd take Moscow in 41, got stuck in a Stalingrad like battle and then require a campaign in 42 to finish them off. And who's to say the soviets just roll over and die?
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I honestly believe it wasn't under the circumstances. The only way it could have succeeded is if Germany was only fighting Russia and if Germany had much more manpower and resources.
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>>1457483
Not with Lend-Lease in effect
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>>1457483
instead of sending reinforcements to Kiev, keep pushing and capture Moscow, it was the heart of the soviet union, the place were railways and roads merged
but the question is if it would be another Stalingrad
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Material rationalism and technology
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If the dogma that material rationalism is responsible for technological novelty is true then how do missile weapons and agriculture fit into that narrative?
Missile weapons and agriculture were probably the biggest technological leaps humanity has ever done. Things like the internet or heart transplants are just results of an impetus that started hundreds of years ago, and are relatively tiny leaps. But to go from not farming to farming on any scale, and to go from throwing spears with your hand to archery - this is humongous progress.
Unless ancient Greece started in the early Paleolithic we are forced to admit that material rationalism and advances in technology are 100% unrelated.
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>>1457285
What's with all the strawman threads on this board? WHO believes technological progress can ONLY come from rational materialism?
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>>1457306
Material rationalists, mostly.
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>>1457285
Please stop OP, I might just laugh myself to death
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Is it true that he spergs out over Ironclad so much because he wasn't hired as the historical advisor?
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>>1457119
You must be retarded. He's obviously joking over the majority of the shit he brings up in reviews because he knows he's being a pedant. Jesus some /his/ fucks need to get over it.
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Watch the ficking video for yourself don't get used to a hive mind
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But gross historical inaccuracy in film is a big problem.
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What did barbarian slaves in ancient rome look like?
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>>1456943
Well, this may surprise you but two different people dont usually look exactly same.
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>average germanic slave
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>>1456943
like the girl in your picture only they couldn't afford to dress quite so well
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Why, throughout history, do people glorify the unworthy dictator?
He manipulated everyone around him, forced his soldiers to march on their own city, and undemocratically ran out the Republic out of his city.
Even before that he went 4 years over his consulship due to an illegal war that he declared out of greed. There is no way the "common man" he use to stand up for actually beleived this madness.
>but Caesar looked out for the little man
Why? He grant certain Gaul states their own governship? Of course he did, he didn't want to appear a tyrant.
He brought plebs into the Senate?
Of course he did. The Republic would seem cruel to not let the lowly mudbiters not have a say in extremely delecate matters.
He lied on that floor with 29 stab wounds. Thank God.
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Cause he was fucking based? Why else.
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>>1456719
Because he manages to get shit done. In contrast with what you hear from political scientists, people can still like and support a government that gives them little benefit. This is the case with most dictators. He encourages them and makes them feel involved. His pictorials and struggles become their own.
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His life makes for an incredible story and he single-handedly changed the course of history by his sheer talent and force of will.
Was Andrew Jackson a proto-fascist?
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>bankers dindu nuffin
die
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>>1456388
how is andrew jackson like hitler?
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>>1456388
What makes a proto-fascist lad?
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Does technology drive history? Are improvements in living and working conditions during the twentieth century the result of social and political reforms or primarily due to technological advances? Did technology or morality end slavery? When technological systems break down, will the world revert back to barbarism and slavery, etc?
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>When technological systems break down, will the world revert back to barbarism and slavery, etc?
What did he mean by this?
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>>1455777
Olduvai theory :^)
http://dieoff.org/page125.htm
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>>1455781
Is this like the Peak oil equivalent of Truthism?
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Should a socialist society condemn bourgeois culture or proliferate it among the proletarians?
How should luxury be treated in the absence of class society?
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>>1454417
You're conflating Socialism, and Communism.
You mean Communist, not Socialist.
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>>1454425
No I'm not. I'm discussing policy in a socialist state, like the USSR
The anarchic nature of communism would probably decouple any culture practice from bourgeois/proletarian associations
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>>1454436
>policy in a socialist state, like the USSR
The USSR was a COMMUNIST state.
Again, you're conflating Socialism with Communism.
Socialism in itself carries none of the notional connotations and oppositions that Communism does, like "The Bourgeoisie", "The Proletariat", etc.
Communism is a political ideology that comprises an economic system. Socialism is just a socioeconomic system, not an ideology.
Communism, and Socialism, are not mutually equivalent, nor does Socialism necessarily entail Communism.
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I can't believe we don't have a humor thread going, let's fix it with the best historical memes ever made.
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