#Civilization

Patrick McKenzie

patio11

I largely agree with Scott Aaronson here.Also: I think (optimistic) we have many things we could do this January that would greatly improve our current trajectory and (pessimistic) it will

Younes

kmlyounes

Thread on Al Andalus (moorish andalusia, 711-1492) (finally) It all started in 711. Tariq Ibn Ziyad invaded spain as a commander for Ummayad Calif Walid I. He gave Gibraltar it's

Alice Tradd 🟢🦀

AliceBrachyura

Honestly a more conservative approach to techno-multiculturalism seems to be the most likely process for most places. Like cities it would be buying time: immigration, culture blending and mixing, and

schrödinger's cat.

nehathemartian

Hello Tweeps, it's #scicomm time! In this thread, I will be talking about Dyson spheres- In particular their origin, how they work, their possible (?) existence and their representation in

galgitron (don't ask for predictions)

galgitron

This is how civilization becomes civilized. Drug addiction is not a crime, it's a mental health crisis, and this move makes it possible for those in need to get help

SamuelGoldman

SWGoldman

Apropos of the present Frankfurt School/anti-semitism debate, here's an idea I'm working on: there are two main kinds of decline theories, degeneration theories and seduction theories. Degeneration theories hold that

modernpoetry

ModPoVintage

Russians seeking revenge over the cold war and Iranians hoping to bring down western civilization must be pissing themselves with glee over all this. All they had to do was

Joe Bassey

Joe__Bassey

"The first Civilization to take Africans out of this continent were the Arabs, they took them from the eastern coast and it's said in that part of the world there

EaldWeald

EaldWeald

Spengler predicted that with the transition from High Culture to Civilization, we'd return to a "Zoological Time" without History proper. Here at (or past?) the peak of Faustian Civ, this

lydiaknows

tacccens

Keeping young people from experiencing art and expressing themselves through art is also a symptom of a broken system !! Privileged classes are constantly encouraged to do art whereas oppressed

Ted Joy

TedJoy71

IN 1998, classicists Victor Davis Hanson and John Heath published a book with the provocative title Who Killed Homer? in which they argued that professional classiciststhemselves were responsible for “the

Anurag Shukla

Anuraag_Shukla

A thread on the life and work of Aimé Césaire:Aimé Césaire was an #anticolonialist poet and politician, who helped found the journal #Black Student in Paris in the 1930s, which

*NotThePopularOpinion

Only_Grey

Ya know, aesthetically, I like this. It’s black and red; what’s not to like? But in terms of building a characterization consistent with an entire civilization I can understand why

Joseph T Noony

JoeAgneya

We must acknowledge ourself as a 5000 year civilization-stateWe must Indianize our Republic with ancient democratic ideals of Vedic & Buddhist textsWe must rationalize political discourse away from left-right

Tweeting Historians

Tweetistorian

Welcome to day two of my #tweetistorian and #EarlyModernPeriod spree. Since yesterday's thread was about the colonist origins of the word "cannibal," today we'll explore those late 15th and early

Jin Xu

xujnx

What have been excavated at Shimao in Shaanxi over the past decade are perhaps more significant than the terracotta army of the First Emperor. The magnificent 4000-year-old city, built mostly

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