#Civilization

Venkatesh Rao

vgr

So... I’ve been trying to find supporting arguments for my intuition that even though death rate is far lower than Spanish Flu (2%) and European Black Death (25-30%), the civilizational

James Poulos

jamespoulos

A type of liberalism is independent of and prior to the abstract apparatus of liberal experts trying to make the world conform to their perfection of it in speech...That of

Brendan Hodges

metaplexmovies

TITANIC remains a towering emotional experience. In one film, Cameron has made his Romeo and Juliet, THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE, his Fall of Rome, his class satire and a quasi-religious resurrection

हठयोगी

hathyogi31

#Thread on SwastikaMeaning-Swastika (स्वस्तिक) = Su (सु) + Asti (अस्ति) + Ka(क)• Su(सु) means Shubh(शुभ) i.e auspicious or welfare• Asti(अस्ति) means be/happen or exist. It stand for p

Ted McCormick

mccormick_ted

Apparently the centrist dream is a university where academic ideas can be banned by the state but racial slurs can't be complained about. *NB This is also the fascist dream.

Wrath Of Gnon

wrathofgnon

Give me dumb cities and dumb homes: one reason for growing housing inequalities is modern wasteful, over-engineered, over equipped, fragile "smart" homes. Dumb homes are so much cheaper to build

John Lichfield

john_lichfield

Here is an excellent riposte to some of the wilful or ignorant nonsense from people who should no better accusing Macron of being anti muslim or playing the anti muslim

Khaled Homoud Alshareef 🇸🇦

0khalodi0

The False Promise of Peace in the Middle East , how powers work in darkness to hinder peace and destabilize the fragile region through fighting real reformers and peace seeking

Rohit

threedotsandash

In 1822, the American Colonization Society—a group of politicians, religious leaders, and slaveholders—established Liberia as an African homeland for freed American slaves. The slaveholders were worried about the "corrupting influe

Megatherion

Megatherion8

A lot of the arguments in this article seem to be based on nothing more than incredulity that a civilization could decline and then have people emulate its achievements 1000

vakibs

vakibs

In this thread, I will discuss the history of the Kalinga region, that is stretched between the Godavari and the Mahanadi rivers.Just as western civilizations refer to the whole of

Doctor-Baron 17cShyteposter, DDS

17cShyteposter

Learning that John Gardner's GRENDEL is a vicious takedown of Sartre makes me understand why I loved it even as a young prog, and already makes even the second page

History of Central Asia and Khorâsan تاریخ خراسان

BiruniKhorasan

Since this unintelligent debate about #Mawlana´s origin goes on, I feel forced to weigh in and start a #Thread about #Rumi´s origin, the nature of the Persianate #civilization, what labels

Siddharth Zarabi

szarabi

Unfortunately, some of the crappiest comments on the impact of the #chineseapp ban are from some very experienced analysts & commentators in India. Come on, folks! Pause, think, reflect before

Dean Carlos 🇺🇲🇻🇦

thedeanwrites

The concept of "white privilege" coined by Du Bois, developed by Peggy McIntosh, and mainstreamed by BLM is useless, if not dangerous, resulting most often in self-hatred on the part

Ted McCormick

mccormick_ted

There is nothing more unenlightened — more wilfully ignorant — than attacking people for encouraging curiosity about the assumptions behind accepted truths. That James’s targets are most often Black is

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