Whatifalthist
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Run by Rudyard William Lynch. Geopolitics, Future, Anthropology, Philosophy and History. http://youtube.com/@WhatifAltHist…
Top 20 books which inform my worldview: 1.War in Human Civilization by Azar Gat: A history of war and its effect on human society from the perspective of Darwinism. Completely foundational to my social, political and historical views. 2. Sex and Power in History by Amaury de…
The biggest thing people don’t understand about politics is how little of it is truly coordinated. The world is too complex to tie a bow around, it’s chaos out there.
Time for an internet break. I’ll be back in two months. I’ll still be responding to DMs here.
My ideas of historic objectivity seem pretty obvious ngl. The idea that each era of history makes mistakes and so you should cross reference different time periods against a universal truth to assess the shared traits or weaknesses. That modernity isn’t just unilaterally correct…
The way to avoid self deception in a personal journey is to ask yourself 1)How emotionally invested in believing this thing 2)What would I do I if was wrong 3)What would the context of the scenario in look like if I was wrong 4)What are the consequences for believing this…
This hits. Most “religion” today feels like outsourced spirituality…dead rituals with no direct line to the divine. What you’re describing sounds closer to mysticism than faith-by-proxy. Curious how you’d handle the danger of self-deception though..how do you know it’s God…
The fact you’ve made it this far in this society is an accomplishment in itself. Pat yourself on the back and rejoice a little. The standards this society holds people too are completely cruel and dehumanizing. We expect everyone to be an Uber successful chad and if you are that…
The culture of “I will not explain things to you and then penalize you for breaking unstated rules” is possibly the most cancerous mentality ever
In 200 years people will say the word equality in the same tone we said eugenics a decade ago
Kuban is a region of Russia in the middle of former Khazaria. Khrushchev was from there
What are the chances a guy named Mark Cuban is ethnically jewish.
The left has a huge hate boner for Sam Huntington. They’ll say “this is a Sam Huntington analysis” with conservative authors, myself included, to invalidate the argument on the spot in their crew. The issue here is several fold. First Huntington was an avowed Democrat for his…
You know you’re allowed to hate people, right? No major world religion has ever taught that hatred and anger in themselves are bad. Christ was angry at the money lenders in the temple and the Pharisees. If someone wrongs you, it’s your duty to fight back. If evil people are…