RT @whatifalthist: This is a 19th century chart showing a Africa’s potential for colonialism. It’s interesting to see how much discourse ha…
Source date (UTC): 2023-08-10 19:06:34 UTC
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I make enough fun of the french pseudo intellectual academy already. 😉 You want me to do even more?
The french were catholic and killed the protestants and the aristocracy, but they maintained the femininity and authoritarianism of the church, producing a feminine philosophy to replace theology – obedience.
The Germans were protestant(mostly) and restored the masculinity and independence of the european tradition – while trying to produce a rational philosophy to replace theology.
Elluls is just trying to justify the unification of the disciplines preserving theology and philosophy in public matters, (shoulds) while the anglo model is to eliminate bads and leave open the opportunity to discover possible goods.
The difference? The British who invented the modern state, empiricism, and science were a more evolved and higher trust people with the most modern government and the least corruption – especially compared to France. So the British favored liberty, while the french claimed liberty but they maintained authority. This is most evident in the difference between the middle eastern authoritarianism of the napoleonic code, and the european libertarianism of the germanic common law.
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Source date (UTC): 2023-08-10 17:30:51 UTC
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Good question Peter. Yes, friction increased as it moved east for the same reason all other development slowed as we move east: development is a response to trade and the institutions that result from trade, and geography is a resistor to trade.
Source date (UTC): 2023-08-10 11:06:48 UTC
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@Bananabread289 @UBERSOY1 @Airmanareiks @JeanReinfort @polygenic_ @KirkegaardEmil @jollyheretic Easy explanation germans and historians are aware of as the empirical revolution started in England and moved eastward, so that by the 1900’s germany was the capital of scientific and industrial education, not the UK. Because UK had focused on legal and financial innovation…
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Easy explanation germans and historians are aware of as the empirical revolution started in England and moved eastward, so that by the 1900’s germany was the capital of scientific and industrial education, not the UK. Because UK had focused on legal and financial innovation…
Source date (UTC): 2023-08-09 16:20:57 UTC
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Agreed.
The non-obvious fact is the primacy of law in both jewish and european civilizations – which explains the development of both intellectual traditions vs the rest of the world – and why the two produce most intellectual innovation. That said, the martial and political origin of european and the familial and social origin of the jewish remains an emphasis in both sets of laws. Europeans attempted to synthesize both ambitions by germanicizing christianity. By the time we get to Aquinas that’s soidified in natural law. But it has taken centuries to complete that project. And even then, it’s a less comforting framework than one in which we are taken care of by the divine, rather than alone in a vast hostile universe requiring us to ascend into the divine on our own. Man may be too fragile for that mission. 😉 So the experiment in discovery of what is possible given human frailty continues. 😉 Meanwhile I preserve my faith. I do not need to justify it. Only practice it. 🙂
So fundamentally, I agree with you. 😉
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Source date (UTC): 2023-08-09 09:25:23 UTC
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(The europeans could have easily repeated the conquest of the middle east by the greeks and romans with the crusades but had no reason; they did with the age of sail and ending of overland trade; they did so with WW1, and could do so today with ease. The problem is that without…
Source date (UTC): 2023-08-07 13:20:32 UTC
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(The europeans could have easily repeated the conquest of the middle east by the greeks and romans with the crusades but had no reason; they did with the age of sail and ending of overland trade; they did so with WW1, and could do so today with ease. The problem is that without need for flood river agriculture, or the silk road, or oil there is no value to the middle east, and low iq, low trust people are incompatible with eastern and western civilizations.
The only reason for the expansion of islam by force was the exhaustion of the two indo european civs of europe and persia bt fighting each other. Every ethicity that conquered under islam was subsequently defeated by the nest wave of barbarians the most recent the Turkics. Even the golden age was persian, and that was reversed by 1000 by conversion to fundamentalism.
Despite recovering from the indo european conquest of the world resulting in the bronze age collapse after 1200bc every civ other than the west managed to stagnate or decline by 800ad having exhausted the agrarian revolution. Yet if not for overextension, plague and wars of migration, ther is no reason why rome didnt invent the industrial revolution before 800ad. They had the technologies. But without the english problem of needing pumps to drain mines
Explaining why the west recovered from semitic superstition and others didnt, and why every other civ stagnated before and after the brone age collapse, is the answer to social science: It only matters who innovates adapts fastest. Islam justifies and manufactures ignorance. and worse, irresponsibility for self regulation, and especially evasion of truth before face.)
Source date (UTC): 2023-08-07 13:20:31 UTC
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(IMO Nietzsche’s criticisms are correct, his primary insight in his first book is the need for our western restoration. But few people understand him thoroughly because they’re looking for what isn’t there. Nietzche didn’t solve the problem he set out to. He didn’t. He couldn’t. He could only tell us what it might feel like if we did. I would argue we are still trying to complete the 19th-century Darwinian revolution and the classical restoration, but the Marxists have been selling snake oil precisely because all the past thinkers never succeeded sufficiently to counter them.
Now, IMO (and I don’t know anyone who understands this better than I do) the information was sitting under our noses – it just wasn’t in philosophical or theological form, and unfortunately, there is a deep need for supernatural or ideal sentiments that justify emotions rather than explain the solutions rationally.
I’m more worried about ending the Marxist-to-woke cult than anything else. Because it’s what’s prohibiting our restoration = because our restoration requires responsibility and the entire leftist corpus is a promise of irresponsibility and freedom from the laws of nature – which of course, is not only false, but suicidal. No more dark ages please.)
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Source date (UTC): 2023-08-06 00:00:59 UTC
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RT @bronzeagemantis: If kids in first image had been reading Homer, admiring ancient Grek fountain of life, Nietzsche, Mishima, military tr…
Source date (UTC): 2023-08-05 23:54:28 UTC
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RT @ArcologyTech: A built environment is a product of a peoples’ genetics, much like a crustacean’s shell – and will ill-fit another geneti…
Source date (UTC): 2023-08-05 18:14:33 UTC
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