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Is there a legitimate modern case to be made for Monarchism? I haven't met anyone in person that actually believes this is an ideal way of governing, but I'm sure many exist somewhere out there. I feel like it's hard to argue because frankly the idea of giving somebody almost absolute power based on their bloodline or something similar is inherently flawed.
Are there any monarchists on /his/? Is there any argument to be made for monarchism that wouldn't rely on historical examples, considering arguments could also be made in the other direction through historical examples?
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>>996318
Check this, especially chapter 2 onwards:
http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/10/20/the-anti-reactionary-faq/
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Monarchism tends to be based entirely upon the "enlightened monarch," which is what early French philosophers were hoping to achieve. However, it's hopeless idealism.
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>>996318
>I'm sure many exist somewhere out there.
Canada.
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What does /his think about the fact that history is objectively subjective?
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The history channel has given its viewers autism
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>>992194
>evidence of advanced technology in the past can only mean aliens
This is what I hate most about the whole Ancient Aliens thing.
Never mind that virtually every culture on Earth had legends about more advanced civilizations in the distant past that collapsed due to natural disasters or war. Never mind that there's a solid 190,000 years of human history with basically no surviving primary-source evidence. And never mind that we've seen people go from tribal savages to our modern technology level in only about 10,000 years.
No, we're not going to look into the possibility of extremely ancient human civilizations. Nope. We're going to jump to the most outrageous, click-bait style idea possible. It had to be aliens!
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>>992260
It takes away the agency of our species to claim that everything we have is the product of a fucking martian
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Where is the Urheimat (primary homeland) of the Indo-Europeans?
Black Sea? Ukraine? Russia? Turkey? East-Asia? Atlantis? Thule? Aldebaran?
Why and when did they start that massive migration and what has made them so successful?
Discuss.
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>>991798
ENGLAND
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>>991798
Hyperborea.
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>>991798
We don't know. It was probably a very large area which is why its confusing.
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why wasn't Spain involved in WWII?
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Neither side saw them as an enemy.
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>>1010594
Civil war followed by being too beaten up to enter
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Franco had to consolidate his power after the Civil War. No way was going to war for a second time, against France a good thing for Franco, especially when a large portion of your population was sympathetic to the French and still antagonistic to your rule. If the Spanish had gone to war and pull troops out of Spain to fight in the rest of Europe, those Republican and Anarchist elements still licking their wounds would no doubt return when you are weak domestically.
Makes me disappointed Mussolini didn't do the same.
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Is there anything that the Native Americans had a better grasp in than the Europeans? What about agriculture and trade?
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being savages
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Uh, well sustainable living? But that was more due to inability than wisdom.
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>>1010190
>Is there anything that the Native Americans had a better grasp in than the Europeans
how to be human
or savage
depends who you ask
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Which ones look the best?
Which ones do you like the most?
How come that pillars never go out of fashion?
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>>1005903
That picture is missing Persian columns
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>>1005903
Why do Greek Corinthian and Roman Composite look the same?
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>>1005903
egypte
grecque corinthien
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Imagine this...
Stalin rules over Nazi Germany
Hitler rules over USSR
What kind of history would happen?
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>>1013620
Nazi Germany and the USSR would go to war.
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>>1013620
A flawed concept since the state they're running now opposes their ideology.
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>>1013620
It wouldn't make much of a difference in the grand scheme of things imo. Both leaders would still be paranoid, both would be leading explicitly anti-commie/anti-fascist nations, both would feel that Eastern and Central Europe belonged under the control of Berlin/Moscow. And Germany would still be at an extreme disadvantage compared to the USSR in terms of resources and manpower.
Although I wonder if a guy with Hitler's personality could even rise to power in the USSR. Mobilizing the people didn't mean much there, what mattered was knowing your way around an established party hierarchy. Same goes for Stalin in Germany. In Germany, it was all about making grand speeches and mobilizing stupid working class people, not really Stalin's style. Also, how the hell is an Armenian going to lead a German nationalist party?
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>sacked Rome
>sacked Constantinopole
>Berserkers were the best shock troops of their time
why were Vikings so successful? Was it because of their war like religion and harsh climate?
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Every thread deserves at least one post.
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>>1013153
>sacked Rome
is this bait?
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>>1013165
http://www.thetoptens.com/ancient-warriors/
they sacked Rome
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I really want to get into Singlestick, can anybody point me in a good direction?
Where can I best get good equipment with a good cost?
Discuss HEMA and HEMA things.
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Is this the new ultimate frisbee?
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Singlestick, also known as cudgels, refers to both a martial art that uses a wooden stick as well as the weapon used in the art. It began as a way of training sailors in the use of swords such as the saber or the cutlass.[citation needed] Canne de combat, a French form of stick fighting, is similar to singlestick play, but is more a method of self-defense with a walking stick.
It originated in Great Britain, was at one time an Olympic sport in 1904, and was a training tool for armed fighting.
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In class do you prefer to take written notes or type up your notes?
You always hear it's better to handwrite notes. Supposedly you retain info better,. but for me writing is just so god damn slow. I just lose track of what the prof is saying. Plus, you have to look down to write. It's possible I just suck at note-taking but whatever.
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>Supposedly you retain info better
This has been scientifically proven, something with the consolidation of memories. It's been a year since I had my course on memory [nospoilerspossible]should have written some notes[/nospoilerspossible]
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>>1012577
I honestly would not be surprised if it's propaganda funded by the pulp and paper industry. And professors like saying it because they assume everyone on their computers is on Facebook.
But even if it's the case for most people, I can say it's certainly not for me. You lose a lot more information when you can't keep up with the speed of the professor.
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I write, but only the absolute crux of what he/she is saying. The details will most likely be found elsewhere. Throw in the intentional or otherwise obfuscation of information that they may deploy... basically don't hang on their every word.
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If Anarchists are anti-top down organization, how did they organize chains of commands in emergency situations in their society? Did every decision have to be subject to a group meeting?
Isn't it just more rational to have the most experienced people at the top making the calls and organizing responses to things like battles, fires etc?
What did they do in Catalonia?
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it's possible in anarchism to have chains of command, as long as it's based on free association. From what we've seen in Spain or in Ukraine (or with the modern day left libertarians of Mexico and Syrian Kurdistan), commanders still exist and are able to excersize some level of command. The critical thing is that every component of the military section (from squad up) have a running dialogue. Still, of course, it is always possible for any single member or united group to challenge whatever orders they get.
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No one is actually an anarchist, they just support anarchism in order to wipe the slate clean so they can setup their ideal government.
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Law and order is not absent in anarchy. It's just privately funded and volontary.
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Post songs that are related to history
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMcmDTX1JwQ
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zpYQJkBQp0
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>>1012287
Inb4 sabbaton.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGMcZDoxSvo
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Universal literacy is a spook.
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how?
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>>1012219
No, it doesn't. And what you said makes no sense.
Lay off Stirner, it's bad for you.
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>>1012226
"Sense" is a spook
What does 4chan know about the Parsi people?
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>>1011990
Persians?
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Pepsi?
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Purses?
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>Muslims take control of a city
>about to burn hundreds of thousands of books and manuscripts (yet again)
>get foiled by a third-world librarian in a dress
kek
>Mr. Haidara returned home from a business trip to learn that the weak Malian army had collapsed and that nearly 1,000 Islamist fighters from one of al Qaeda’s African affiliates, al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, had occupied his city. He encountered looters, gunfire and black flags flying from government buildings, and he feared that the city’s dozens of libraries and repositories—home to hundreds of thousands of rare Arabic manuscripts—would be pillaged.
>Mr. Haidara knew that many of the works in the city’s repositories were ancient examples of the reasoned discourse and intellectual inquiry that the jihadists, with their intolerance and rigid views of Islam, wanted to destroy. The manuscripts, he thought, would inevitably become a target.
>The result was a heist worthy of “Ocean’s Eleven.” They bought metal and wooden trunks at a rate of between 50 and 80 a day, made more containers out of oil barrels and located safe houses around the city and beyond. They organized a small army of packers who worked silently in the dark and arranged for the trunks to be carried by donkey to their hiding places.
>By the time French troops invaded the north in January 2013, the radicals had managed to destroy only 4,000 of Timbuktu’s nearly 400,000 ancient manuscripts. “If we hadn’t acted,” Mr. Haidara told me later, “I’m almost 100% certain that many, many others would have been burned.”
http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-librarian-who-saved-timbuktus-cultural-treasures-from-al-qaeda-1460729998
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They are all Muslims and they are all Africans so I don't get your point
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>>1011942
History being saved isn't of interest to you?
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>>1011933
So, do we have scans of those manuscripts? What are they actually about?