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>>1297730
I dont get it

>>1297730
In World War 1 you're right.

In World War 2, there was plenty of fighting in Asia and North Africa though.

>>1297730
>>"""World""" War 1
>what are all the invasions of German colonies

>>"""World""" War 2
>what is Pacific Theater
>what is CBI Theater

Depends how you define "meritocracy," the closest system is actually Australia which is highly dependent on commissions formed from industry professionals and actual experts in the field they're legislating. That being said, the people these commissions present to are still elected and still have the option to ignore everything they say.

A better system would be to give commissions more power or influence over parliament, open up the decision making to a wider community of experts (who may be polled, but not present evidence, for simplicity) and perhaps include digital technologies into the decision making, like internet forums.

>Now my questions:
>>Is this viable?
Australia is actually a fantastic democracy that should be studied and perhaps used as a framework for newer democracies or simply nations that wish to be more democratic.

Before you think I'm an Australian shill, Australia is benefiting from being a relatively young country itself. It's benefiting from hindsight and using America, Britain, Germany and France as guinea pigs.

>>How exactly does Meritocracy works? Who chooses who deserves power and based on what?
That's the issue and that's where corruption of meritocracy usually creeps in, especially when there's assumed biases (which may or may not exist) or when completely subjective factors, like social skills, are considered.

This is more difficult in the commission style of meritocracy since they can literally be semi-famous industry experts, but it's almost expected if usually democratically appointed positions are chosen "meritocratically."

>>What do you think about it?
Well.. aforementioned.

How is meritocracy defined? That's the biggest question.

>>1297446
What's in it for these senators? I've always thought plato's idea fora city seems good and this isn't too different. The problem is that if there's nothing in it for the participants, no one would waste their time with it. Anyone smart enough to score a position in a meritocracy could see the fact that their their own citizens slave. Without the availability of corruption and big money kickbacks, government positions are silly. Your problem isn't democracy, it's capitalism that holds us back.

>>1297548
Please dont even mention any kind of communism/socialism.. It's objectively retarded.

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>You will never be the Grand Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
>you will never fuck a different wife or concubine every day of the year
>you will never laugh as your grand vizier burns another letter from the Pope begging you to convert to Catholicism
>you will never order your head gardener to be killed for eating your favorite cucumber, then re-grow it from the seeds cut out from his belly
>you will never enslave entire villages of Greek peasants

Why live?

>You will never be a Roman centurion
>You will never put Gaulic barbarians to the sword
>You will never get to bang the hot wife of the barbarian you just killed
>You will never take part in a civil war for your general to make Rome great again
>You will never get a comfy piece of land as rewards for your service to the Republic

Why even live?

>you will never take Jerusalem from the Ottomans with opium cigarettes
>you will never push the Gerries back during the Hundred Days Offensive
>you will never witness the Huns ragequitting and destroying their own fleet at Scapa Flow

Fucking judeo-christianity fucked up europe for centuries to come. We would be literally flying in pagan space zeppelins right now if it had not been for the christian dark ages

>>1297361
Abrahamic religions fucked everything up, some moreso than others like Islam, to be quite honest my fellow /his/torical scholar.

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>>1297361
>Fucking judeo-christianity fucked up europe for centuries to come.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiping_Rebellion

The Taiping Rebellion or Taiping Civil War (simplified Chinese: 太平天国运动; traditional Chinese: 太平天國運動; pinyin: Taìpíng Tīanguó Yùndòng, literally "Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement") was a massive rebellion or civil war in China that lasted from 1850 to 1864, which was fought between the established Manchu-led Qing dynasty and the Christian millenarian movement of the Heavenly Kingdom of Peace. The Taiping Rebellion began in the southwestern province of Guangxi when local officials launched a campaign of persecution against a Christian sect known as the God Worshipping Society led by Hong Xiuquan, who believed himself to be the younger brother of Jesus Christ. The war was mostly fought in the provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi, and Hubei, but over 14 years of war, the Taiping Army had marched through every regularized province of China proper except Gansu. The war was the largest in China since the Qing conquest in 1644, and ranks as one of the bloodiest wars in human history, the bloodiest civil war, and the largest conflict of the nineteenth century with estimates of war dead ranging from 20 to 70 million dead, as well as millions more displaced.[4]

> a Christian sect known as the God Worshipping Society led by Hong Xiuquan, who believed himself to be the younger brother of Jesus Christ.

>ranks as one of the bloodiest wars in human history, the bloodiest civil war, and the largest conflict of the nineteenth century with estimates of war dead ranging from 20 to 70 million dead, as well as millions more displaced

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>died before WW1
>was he a member of the German National Socialist party?

>>1297261
>>died before WW1

DUDE

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>>1297267
>he doesn't know

The earth is rotating on an axis causing the illusion of the sun rising from the east in the morning and setting in the west in the evening.

>>1297215
The sun is traveling around the galactic center like a speck of dust in a newly-flush toilet. We're on a spinning object, constantly plummeting toward it while on just a trajectory to miss every time.

Optimism and pessimism are for dreamers. Realists go home to fuck the prom queen.

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>>1297215
>that pic
My Hamite.

The royals of England would never stop speaking and identifying themselves as French and the English language would be exctint today.

>>1297120
Alright now that the frog butthurt has settled lets discuss the Geo-political benefits like no world wars or napoleon

>>1297125
The English monarchs only started to use English as their main tongue in the hundred years war, aquiring land with a much bigger population than their own would probably just give them even more reasons to stay French.

>>1296960
Why are philosophists so try hards? Why can't they just write normal and not try to make their text sound as hard as possible?

>>1296970
I mean this is translated from like 19th century German...

>>1296970
>This is hard
Well, maybe you should have continued your studies in elementary school.

There isn't one. It's just chance that we're here and alive. Pleasure is nice though, so go and have fun, and remember the universal rule of life: Don't be a dick.

>>1296805
read the myth of sisyphus

>>1296860
it btfos meaning of life

I want Baker-sensei to spank me

In most American universities you'll be doing a lot of analytic stuff, so that means logic tables and sperging about math and language, it's not all phenomenology and human condition unfortunately. Where I go, a pretty analytic university overall, there's still plenty of existentialism and philosophy of art courses and stuff but you can't get around taking symbolic logic and metaphysics at some point.

English of course is going to focus more on literature while Philosophy will have a bent more towards critical thinking. Both will give you a substantial writing education.

I don't know my man, I guess it comes down to taste and what you plan to do after school is out.

>>1296738
>English
Become an english teacher
>Philosophy
Become a barista
You decide.

Religion is a right-hand of politics. Always was, always will.

If you think something's changed you're deluded.

>>1296723
>Why are so many Christians also patriots and nationalists
*Protestants
Protestants are pseudo-Germans. They have no capacity in their brains to learn anything but racism, xenophobia, imperialism and anti-semitism.

>>1296750
Catholic leftist, probably detected.

I'm a deist centrist btw, what do you think about guns?

>>1296695
they were mainly important because they made up such a large percentage of europe's population. by the end of the 19th century this stopped being true

>>1296695
You're simply a deluded Briton
Europe in general is irrelevant nowdays, but the two most relevant among them are Germany and France
Britain is the pinacle of irrelevance, and basically an US satellite state

>>1296695
>UK is far more important than they.
What are you on about?
At least France got the power and will to interdependently pursue its own foreign policy in North Africa, Britain will only do whatever the USA allows and asks them to.
There's a reason we got cheese eating surrender monkeys rather than tea drinking ones.

It's pretty liberating tee bee ache

I've seen these threads numerous times, is this a single gorillaposter who makes the same philosophy threads over and over?

>>1296597
Being wrong all the time must be depressing, yes.

Nice try Jew. You're still going to hell for eternity.

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>>1296550
>>>/pol/

>>1296556
That's not true. We say "triggering" too.

Germans already did
It's fat American naziboos that haven't

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germans are the niggers of europe

>>1296512
Modern germans blame britain and souther europe for the failure of the european project.