How do you go from this...
...to this?
>attack a bunch of ailing and corrupt despots
>assault regions with population densities of 0.04 people per square kilometer
>name yourself conqueror of endless expanses of grass
>get btfo when you see a single stone castle
>"empire" instantly fractures the moment you die as your sons and later grandchildren are ruined by infighting
>no culture to speak of, descendants are either completely Sinicized or completely Indianized
Was there ever a shittier empire that accomplished less?
>>1437931
>>get btfo when you see a single stone castle
i hope you enjoyed the red exclamation mark in this tab
What is this thing?
>>1437838
Jawa crawler.
>>1437839
>Jawa crawler
>>1437839
This. One from a long long time ago though.
In the US, the phenomenon of "white guilt" is modern decendets of the European settlers feeling personal responsibility for the actions committed by their forefathers.
Is there any recorded instances in history of such a mindset? Did the ancient Romans feel any sense of cultural guilt for thier conquers after many generations had passed as they do in the modern western world?
>>1437805
Hitler was the ultimate WE WUZ
>>1437811
Indeed
>>1437811
anglo apologist get out
Who were the greatest cavalry units in all of /his/?
An easy first choice is the Mongols but Polish Hussars and Byzantine Cstsphracts were both very elite.
>>1437625
Cataphracts*
>>1437625
>Cataphracts
Oh the memories
French Knights like the Gendarmes don't get nearly enough love.
While in Western Europe the Churches are empty? My theory: "free market". In America, many denominations compete among themselves and have to market and innovate to stand out, while in Europe the church has become stagnant like a public company that just does the bare minimum. But I'm possibly leaving out cultural reasons. What do you think?
Religion was long used by the State in Europe in order to support the oppression of the peasantry. Thus, when radical liberals rose up demanding democratic reforms and rights, one of their objectives was often time dismantling the Church. This is most clearly seen with the French Revolution.
>>1437621
It's not. Christianity is dying in the U.S. too, just a slower death.
Most of Western Europe is much wealthier per capita than people in the US, so they don't need to seek out church benefits to maintain their standard of living. There is less social need for a church.
Western Europe is also more secular in general, which leads to more secular institutions, which leads to less need for church institutions, which leads to further secularism.
Why are they more secular? My theory is the reverse of yours: A free market of faiths in Europe has proved secularism to be most beneficial to those who want to live a materialist lifestyle. American secularism hasn't taken hold because there's still a stigma that atheists or nontheists are untrustworthy, and there's nothing worse for a materialist than to be disowned by their society.
>Anything more complicated than arithmetic is useless to most people.
True or false?
>>1437576
False, I guess, unless you mean for calculations they have to do themselves.
The higher maths are important in a range of different fields
>>1437591
>The higher maths are important in a range of different fields
Of course, but should high school students, especially those uninterested in college, be required to take advanced algebra and trigonometry?
>>1437622
>advanced Algebra and trig
Those subjects are not, in any sense, advanced or complicated, just ugly and shit.
Also, why should we teach history, or literature?
Are optimism and pessimism two sides of the same coin and come down to how willing you are to take risks? If heads you win a million dollars and getting tails puts you a million dollars in debt, are you a pessimist for not taking the risk?
No, it's about reality itself, part of the human experience is made of the part in us that is capable of feeling positive and negative feelings, whichever we feel more dominantly is entirely dependent on the way we choose to filter the
information we analyze from external stimuli, a pessimist will choose to compute things with an inclination to reach a negative conclusion and an optimist with an inclination towards a positive one.
An optimist knows that good and happiness is of your own making and choose to see what naturally feels positive and good, a pessimist is someone who's stuck in the mind and tries to reach some ultimate truth or knowledge with intelligence alone forsaking his feelings and thus getting stuck in a loophole forever trying to understand the truth or meaning without the basic means to do it.
Your example is vain and has nothing to do with morality, because it neglects a thousand different variables that make people choose what it is they choose, it has nothing to do with optimism and pessimism because no one will choose simply by those variables you gave no matter if he is a pessimist or an optimist but by many others as well.
>>1438529
>but by many others as well.
Agreed.
>An optimist knows that good and happiness is of your own making and choose to see what naturally feels positive and good
Not necessarily true - but belief in ones own chosen ethos and on the other side, cynicism, does seem like the major struggle of life. Risk taking behaviour is part of this
>>1437523
no thats bullshit the world isnt all dialectics there are preferences and direction. look at the binary case for existence. desirableness and preferability built out of axioms being 1 and anything we discard along the way as inferior ulternatives being a 0. we synth forward through history.
just because there is a winner doesnt neccessitate a loser
stupid retarded controlling eastern philosophy sees the world in this bipolar ying yang crap. its garbage. retarded (literal technical term - delays and inhibits progress) and it infects the west which has always been shit stained with weakness. from the elders through to the youngers, across the board.
Would it made a difference if the Germans had as many of these as the Americans and British had of their Liberty/Mark tanks?
Yes, but at that time the turnip winter was already a thing and the US was mobilizing.
It would have bought some time.
>>1437357
>Turnip Winter
wut?
>>1437365
Not him, but a bad food situation in Germany as the war dragged in, due to the blockade and drafting people ordinarily working in agriculture.
Am I weird if I tear up when I think of the fall of the Roman Empire?
Anyone else get emotional over situations they are totally historically (and perhaps geographically) removed from?
Yes
No
>>1436922
The fall of the western Roman empire was simply the east getting rid of the diseased bodypart.
>>1436943
well that's something worth being sad about anon
Any recommendations for non-biased overviews about WW1 and WW2?
By "overview", I mean that it's a study from a 3rd party perspective. What happened on both sides, how it all went down and how it ended.
I don't care if it's a 20 hours long documentary or a 5000 pages book.
I just want something I can actually trust.
>non-biased
What did he mean by this?
>>1437552
I meant something that is as neutral as possible.
>>1436849
threeworldwars.com/albert-pike2.htm
i swear to fucking god if heaven or hell is real and i have to exist forever and see people who had better earth lives than me have better afterlives than me for all eternity i will literally try to rape god
what did he mean by this?
Will heaven have 4chan, cuz if not I'd rather not go tbqh
>>1436732
You will probably end up in hell with all of them.
What went wrong?
Communism
>>1436390
Yeah but the debts man
Heard that he ended up isolated from the reality of the situation. When people reported to him how things was going they basically made shit up to make everything look better than it was.
Then he was supposedly executed because he had knowledge that could expose other communists that now make up the elite of Romania.
What's it like knowing that both of these men were misquoted and misunderstood by right-wing retards and their ideas were plagiarised in order to create subsequent Nazism and fascism?
Like every other philosopher for every other political hue in history then?
>>1436118
>What's it like
it's like nothing at all
absolutely 0
>>1436118
y u mad tho?
Have there every been "leaks" in the past?
Like did some Roman dude ever steal some documents and release them to the public?
>>1435935
How exactly would a Roman "release them to the public"? Post them on the wall in your local inn? Who would believe a drunk in an inn?
>>1435947
Well that's why I'm asking.
Does martin luther count as a leak?
Can you honestly blame the man for trying?
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
Yes.
Niggas always trying to reinvent the wheel instead of doing something that works.
Just imitate the US or UK, and your country will probably turn out okay.
>>1435590
you think there is a place for 3 or 4 US or UKs in the world?