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Seeing more infighting and counter signaling on the right in recent weeks. Probably the result of mass exodus of libs, Trump Nov win, & general TL fatigue
Commentators debating humanities vs stem as if we were still in the heat of Xbox vs PlayStation 2010s console wars
You've got popular hereditarian anons who know so little about human history and cultural differences they've memed themselves into thinking Sub-Saharan Africa didn't have a history of agriculture despite their domestication of crops such as Pearl Millet, Fonio, African rice,…
They didn't really have "agriculture," though, did they? Not like the Middle East, Anatolia, etc did. Nor did they domesticate any animals (name one...) or even have pastoralism until quite recently
Transition from competition to planning, from bourgeois liberalism to mass democracy. Collapse of the state-society distinction, fusion of economy and politics, the state and the managerial elite win. This is the rupture, not modernity, capitalism or whatnot. 4 books.
Tfw I will never be a roguish cavalry officer.
Good friend is single, early 30s, self-made. Really into managing the serfs on his estate, mowing his fields, and getting into politics in the zemstvo. Yet he cannot get a single dance at the ball. What is happening? Do all women want rogueish cavalry officers?
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.
Take the idea of "deracination" for example, i.e. being culturally uprooted from one's native environment. Aside from the fact that I would probably not enjoy farming hazelnuts in the Pontic foothills for a living, the notion that there are significant populations in the…
I've written my third post for Future of Geography. What does someone wired like a Leif Erikson or Amerigo Vespucci do when all the continents have already been "discovered"? On elephant-riding, amber-hunting, rock scrambling, geomancy, secret pleasure zones, and more:…