Category: Civilization, History, and Anthropology

  • IN EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENT, BEING FIRST DOESN’T MATTER – ONLY BEING FASTEST. (W

    IN EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENT, BEING FIRST DOESN’T MATTER – ONLY BEING FASTEST.

    (Why is MENA so far behind since 1000ad?)
    RE: Egypt.
    But they stagnated for thousands of years, and once they encountered the sea people (Europeans), they never recovered.

    It doesn’t matter who is…


    Source date (UTC): 2023-08-14 14:40:27 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1691097455092289536

    Reply addressees: @WernerVonBurner @Dosadian @chedetofficial

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1691093502187446272

  • IN EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENT, BEING FIRST DOESN’T MATTER – ONLY BEING FASTEST. (W

    IN EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENT, BEING FIRST DOESN’T MATTER – ONLY BEING FASTEST.

    (Why is MENA so far behind since 1000ad?)
    RE: Egypt.
    But they stagnated for thousands of years, and once they encountered the sea people (Europeans), they never recovered.

    It doesn’t matter who is first. It matters only who is the fastest. Anyone can stumble on a technology, but the measure of a society, polity, or civilization is its application to evolutionary velocity – not its discovery.

    This is the least intuitive and most important evolutionary law that is most difficult to teach people today, precisely because of the many traditions we have of ‘being first’ because ‘being first’ is a contribution of innovation to the commons.

    However, the rate at which one can recursively innovate, adapt and evolve the commons determines the impact of the discovery or innovation, and who was first is largely irrelevant.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-08-14 14:40:26 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1691097454987378689

  • 1) That’s because China and Europe went through the ‘warring states’ period of c

    1) That’s because China and Europe went through the ‘warring states’ period of civilizational consolidation thousands of years apart – and Islamic civilization is just going through it now.

    2) It’s also because the conflict between the spread of the curse of Abrahamic religions and the resulting regressive ignorance, superstition, and authoritarianism, versus the rise of modernity in Europe – and Islam is just beginning that transition.

    3) It’s also because (a) in an otherwise tedious consistency of life, wars are the only noticeable occurrences (b) europeans were pervasively literate during our ‘warring states’ period of development. (c) europeans alone solved the problem of government, and the problem of government involves the acts of government – including war.

    4) It’s also because Europe’s rapid technical innovation is due to the pressures created by the use of technology to defeat the southern authoritarian Abrahamic vs the northern germanic libertarian instead of religion, ideology, or population size – because europeans are the produce of the west indo european expansion who united horse, bronze, and wheel and by accident invented good government because of it AND the objective, empirical and finally scientific mind.

    5T there is no comparison between the number, and constancy wars of MENA, vs the other civilizations of Europe, China, and India, especially India’s natural peace, and europe’s great pax-romania, and pax-americana for the simple reason that MENA is at the axis of four continents, and four races with the agrarian revolution beginning in the levant anatolia and Mesopotamia, and being conquered by wave after wave of barbarians each of whom replaced the previous generation of barbarians – and unfortunately cost the world the Persians and NW Indians.

    6) There is no comparison between the Muslim destruction of the great civilizations of the ancient world and the reduction of them to ashes: north African, Egyptian, Levantine, Anatolian, Mesopotamian, Persian (3 times), northwest Indian, and even the simple people of the steppe, and the destruction of the advancement of old Europe, and the destruction een of the high culture of the Byzantines. Nor the degeneracy that Islam imposed on each after the recidivism of fundamentalism beginning in the tenth century.

    6) Europeans poorly unified the world with science, institutions and trade – by dragging primitive peoples into modernity kicking and screaming. But the evidence is obvious that those who were so ‘dragged’ are better off then those not today. Compare that to Islam that has had a devolutionary affect on everything it touches. Even today, nearly all terrorist groups are Muslim, and nearly all failed states are Abrahamic, and nearly all instability is either Islamic or the threat of Islam.

    SUMMARY
    Ignorance in Islam is pervasive and self justifying because of that ignorance.
    And, in other words, people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. The greatest cancer in human history is the abrahamic religions that taught men how to lie – and in doing so evade the one law of the universe, and the one law of god if there is one: discover, adapt, evolve – or die.

    Reply addressees: @chedetofficial


    Source date (UTC): 2023-08-14 14:12:26 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1691090408053362689

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1632546288582688768

  • “Is it really true that European cities were bigger than cities in China, Egypt

    –“Is it really true that European cities were bigger than cities in China, Egypt and India?”–

    Yes, though it might be ‘a city’ instead of ‘cities’. But the reason is obvious.

    The neolithic land could support more people in the fertility of Europe’s ecology until the river valley peoples invented and (quickly) shared flood river irrigation, and which place the land could support more people (and still does) than any other until the age of petroleum. At which point the fertility of greater arable surface area surpassed the fertility of land with close proximity to irrigation. Egypt, despite its borders, for example, is really just x-distance from the banks of the Nile.

    Secondly, flood river valleys are basically highways, so trade accelerates, and the concentration of productive capital allows cheap and easy conquest and taxation. Taxation and trade lead to urban development, and out of necessity of the complexity, the development of writing to manage inventory, trade, and taxation – and the beginnings of the debt-credit cycle which allows greater agrarian risk and survival.

    At which point the combination of climate, transport cost and speed, trade volume, policing, government and taxation – especially given the proximity of egypt, levant, Mesopotamia, and Indus (and finally ganges and yellow river) created the opportunity for overland and coastal sea trade that held the advantage until the european Mediterranean age of good government, and then finally the european age of sail, and the european age of industrial and scientific revolution.

    Thanks for the rare intellectual honesty and interesting interaction. 😉

    Cheers

    Reply addressees: @WernerVonBurner @Dosadian @chedetofficial


    Source date (UTC): 2023-08-14 13:49:07 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1691084537046925312

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  • There is a reason some of us specialize in logic. Though you’re making an obviou

    There is a reason some of us specialize in logic. Though you’re making an obvious mistake. First, in the chalcolithic, cities in old europe were larger than those in mesopotamia. Second, the map illustrates counts of wars – and records were not produced in the same volume or…


    Source date (UTC): 2023-08-14 13:01:37 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1691072585004425216

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  • RT @LukeWeinhagen: @curtdoolittle I’d wager this is why European colonization ca

    RT @LukeWeinhagen: @curtdoolittle I’d wager this is why European colonization carried an “adoption” undertone in its framing, at least by t…


    Source date (UTC): 2023-08-13 20:26:52 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1690822247814950912

  • Thats the question, and its multiplied by population collapse

    Thats the question, and its multiplied by population collapse.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-08-12 12:23:14 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1690338148352475137

    Reply addressees: @reality_deny

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1690212520710004737

  • RT @whatifalthist: Third Worlders. How does it feel to look up to the First Worl

    RT @whatifalthist: Third Worlders. How does it feel to look up to the First World and see how wealthy and stable we are, but then realize w…


    Source date (UTC): 2023-08-12 03:31:03 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1690204223349129216

  • The Three Big Cycles of History and The Pendulum Swing of Politics by @whatifalt

    The Three Big Cycles of History and The Pendulum Swing of Politics by @whatifalthist
    https://youtube.com/shorts/FlPPJUzQvQo?feature=share


    Source date (UTC): 2023-08-12 03:15:57 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1690200422475001856

  • THE HORROR OF BEING GENZ AND THE CONSEQUENCES. It’s one thing to be black-pilled

    THE HORROR OF BEING GENZ AND THE CONSEQUENCES.
    It’s one thing to be black-pilled by normies and the disenfranchised – you can ignore it as spilled milk. It’s another to be depressingly black-pilled by your intellectual peers. I am so glad I’m not suffering like Generation Z. Seriously. They were sold a future of platitudes that doesn’t and can’t exist. Meanwhile, the rising tide of social media-induced mental illness, ineffective education, crushing debt expansion, rapidly declining economic opportunity, and the destruction of sexual relations and the marital and reproductive marketplace, and the end of the family, causing a society dominated by an emerging generation whose identity is determined by whatever form of therapy they sedate themselves with, and teetering on “irreversible permanent self-harm”, leading to population collapse followed by economic and political collapse, being fed by the one resource that guarantees revolutionary violence: single, angry, frustrated young men, with the obvious ‘correction’ that will result will be far worse than the pain of any substantive reform beforehand.

    ( @whatifalthist )


    Source date (UTC): 2023-08-11 00:19:40 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1689793668666781696