Selective Breeding and the Birth of Anime
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His ego nec metas rerum nec tempora pono; imperium sine fine dedi
“Therefore strength (is) good (and) in every way the best (thing) in my opinion” —Buddhist sutra in Tocharian
The Osmanglu family after generations of sultans bleaching his finest daughter with his strongest jannissaries, is this selective breeding?
Busbeq on the meritocratic Janissary barracks-regime. In contrast to feudal Christian Europe, where rising in rank took generations, amongst the Janissaries it was strictly dependent on acts of battlefield valour. The Sultans' own daughters were wed to the most talented slaves.
"Christianity was not 'national,' it was not based on race... in hoc signo the décadence triumphed..."
The communities that welcome migrants and refugees can be a living witness of a society where the dignity of all as children of God is recognised and in which all are brothers and sisters, part of the same family. #WDMR2025 @vaticanIHD vatican.va/content/leo-xi…
Alexander I presents to Napoleon I the Kalmyks, Cossacks and Baskirs of the Russian army, July 9, 1807 (Pierre-Nolasque Bergeret)
Thread on Ottoman Civilisation & the Janissary system w/excerpts by Toynbee. Citing primary sources of contemporary European visitors, who were so impressed they urged adoption of similar practices. In many ways, the institution of "slave-soldiery" was meritocracy at its purest.
Nezame on the Kiso River, from Selected Views of Japan, by Kawase Hasui, 1925, MFA Boston
Pater familias ownership of their daughters sounds like a good idea and has many advantages over female Choice, but as society is currently instantiated it would mainly result in girldads outlawing heterosexual intercourse.
"a sensitive mid-20s man looking back at the follies of his bygone youth"
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