I might argue that Hindus are an exception having been conquered, repeatedly, and never ascending into the age of commerce and affluence. We can see the indus valley civilization did. But India seems to not have ascended, but stagnated, and china was not able to enter the age of intellect and stagnated. This is very informative in and of itself. The difference being china could not be conquered until the 20th century and europeans had already given up those ambitions, and india was conquered by every single era of warfare technologists (despite producing the first quality steel). While I agree that the ancient myths are virtuous in cooperating submissively with one another, they are not virtuous in defense. The jews faced a similar problem – on first glance their religion appears beneficial, but upon study it has been catastrophic unless they have the warriors of a host people to defend them. This is my primary difficulty with Hindu civilization. It is incomprehensible to me at times, because, as a member of the aristocratic (military) caste(class) of my people, I cannot imagine the inability to defend, and the tolerance for external rule. And depending upon the mercy of rulers for success in rebellion.
Category: Civilization, History, and Anthropology
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AFRICA You see, I see african ‘humility’ as both a blessing and a curse. It is n
AFRICA
You see, I see african ‘humility’ as both a blessing and a curse. It is not that helpful, but humility is easier to transform into heroic optimism, than islamic overconfidence, and hindu overinvestment in ‘magic’.
Islam is the greatest danger to africa for this reason.
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-30 11:58:00 UTC
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(I might argue that Hindus are an exception having been conquered, repeatedly, a
(I might argue that Hindus are an exception having been conquered, repeatedly, and never ascending into the age of commerce and affluence. We can see the indus valley civilization did. But India seems to not have asciended and stagnated, and china was not able to enter the age of intellect and stagnated. This is very informative in and of itself. The difference being china could not be conquered until the 20th century and europeans had already given up those ambitions, and india was conquered by every single era of warfare technologists (despite producing the first quality steel). While I agree that the ancient myths are virtuous in cooperating submissively with one another, they are not virtuous in defense. The jews faced a similar problem – on first glance their religion appears beneficial, but upon study it has been catastrophic unless they have the warriors of a host people to defend them. This is my primary difficulty with Hindu civilization. It is incomprehensible to me at times, because, as a member of the aristocratic (military) caste(class) of my people, I cannot imagine the inability to defend, and the tolerance for external rule. And depending upon the mercy of rulers for success in rebellion. )
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-30 11:27:00 UTC
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“India makes no distinction between religions”—Prime Minister Narendra Modi In
—“India makes no distinction between religions”—Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Indians, like south americans, have probably missed the window of opportunity at this point – and while I have a deep love of indian people and appreciation for a culture I find somewhat difficult to even comprehend at times, I would ask each indian to search his soul and ask “Why are we always defeated? Why do we always lose? If india had been other than a british colony, gandhi would have been killed immediately – why? Why do sanitation, poverty, and illiteracy still plague our people?”
My prediction is that China will not fall. But India will. For a very simple reason: there is something very wrong in the culture of india. What is it? Why do strange ideas like out-of-india survive? Why will india be conquered slowly in modernity?
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-30 10:35:00 UTC
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THE ROMAN SAECULUM A saeculum is a length of time roughly equal to the potential
THE ROMAN SAECULUM
A saeculum is a length of time roughly equal to the potential lifetime of a person or the equivalent of the complete renewal of a human population.
(four 22 year cycles)
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-29 21:26:00 UTC
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Glubb Pasha’s Seven steps in the life cycles of great powers 1. The age of outbu
Glubb Pasha’s Seven steps in the life cycles of great powers
1. The age of outburst (or pioneers).
2. The age of conquests.
3. The age of commerce.
4. The age of affluence.
5. The age of intellect.
6. The age of decadence.
7. The age of decline and collapse.
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-29 21:25:00 UTC
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THE RUSSIAN SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC CYCLE Nefedov, Turchin and Malkov: sociodemographic
THE RUSSIAN SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC CYCLE
Nefedov, Turchin and Malkov: sociodemographic cycles
The basic logic of these models is as follows:
1) After the population reaches the ceiling of the carrying capacity of land, its growth rate declines toward near-zero values.
2) The system experiences significant stress with decline in the living standards of the common population, increasing the severity of famines, growing rebellions etc.
3) As has been shown by Nefedov, most complex agrarian systems had considerable reserves for stability, however, within 50–150 years these reserves were usually exhausted and the system experienced a demographic collapse (a Malthusian catastrophe), when increasingly severe famines, epidemics, increasing internal warfare and other disasters led to a considerable decline of population.
4) As a result of this collapse, free resources became available, per capita production and consumption considerably increased, the population growth resumed and a new sociodemographic cycle started.
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-29 21:21:00 UTC
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A SET OF CYCLES OF HISTORY (there are many more) 8) War Against Communism/Postmo
A SET OF CYCLES OF HISTORY (there are many more)
8) War Against Communism/Postmodernism > ???? ????
7) European Civil War > (intellectual vacuum)
6) Post Napoleonic Wars > Darwin/Menger/Maxwell/Pareto/Spencer/Nietzsche vs Marx/Boas/Freud/Cantor/Frankfurt vs Postmodern.
5) Decline of Monarchies Thirty years war > Hobbes/Locke/Smith/Hume
4) Decline of Italy > Machiavelli/Galileo
3) Decline of Rome > Aurelius (too many to list.) (Augustine)
2) Decline of Athens > Socrates/Plato/Aristotle/Zeno
1) Bronze Age Collapse > Homer
Laments to the lost peak, feed the new ambitions.
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-29 16:19:00 UTC
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Damn, but we are in fact going to see the perfect economic, demographic, politic
Damn, but we are in fact going to see the perfect economic, demographic, political and military storm.
Anyone who doesn’t study cycles is effectively illiterate.
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-29 15:17:00 UTC
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As far as I know the IE peoples separated into european and indo-iranian branche
As far as I know the IE peoples separated into european and indo-iranian branches, and my understanding via Armstrong is that it was because the eastern peoples ‘left’ (created a diaspora) because they could not compete against the west but they could compete south and east.
As far as I know (from the record) The Indo-Iranian religion was polytheistic.
As far as I know, zoroaster lived closer to 1000bc (earlier), even if the religion was formalized (like most were) centuries later.
As far as I know zoroaster and his work were addressed to the iranian branch, and to no small degree, to intentionally cause conflcit between the iranian and indian branches.
As far as I know the indian version of religion is the closest to our EASTERN ancestral religion.
But again the western ancestral and the eastern ancestral differed greatly in that in the western, men traded with and could often defeat the gods, where in the eastern version, men were dependent upon or submissive to the gods.
The difference is that IE’s disappeared through interbreeding with the peoples of india, the persians (iranians) were boxed in between india and the semites, Although they seem to have preserved most of their genetic independence until the arab conquest. And the west were isolated by the urals, mediterranean, black sea and alps, as were india and the chinese.
Source date (UTC): 2018-04-29 10:37:00 UTC