Category: Civilization, History, and Anthropology

So why can’t we teach that history consists of man’s use of rational incentives, and that the english are the first people to systematically spread the prohibiton on slavery to the world. And sent out their navy to enforce it, and the africans did everything possible to continue it.
Or that slavery was endemic in human history. And that europeans have been enslaved by africans and middle easterners at every opportunity. Or that a certain ethnic group specialized in it.
Or that the british invented the modern rule of law state that we all benefit from.
Or that the postwar americans took advantage of the english creation of world trade networks, and americans almost single handedly dragged mankind out of poverty by doing so in just a century.
Or that every other civilization failed by exhausting the potential of agrarianism by 800ad.
Or that every other civilization failed to develop logic, reason, empiricism, and science; or confession, military reporting, testimony, and truth before face, especially in the commons.
Or that of all the innovations in human history 98% of them were made by europeans.
Or that europeans, despite being a small population on the edge of the bronze age evolved faster than the rest of the entire world combined in the bronze, iron, and steel ages.
Or that europeans are the only people to maximize individual responsiblity as a means of suppressing demand for authority that the rest of the world begs for but rails against.
Or the thousand other things that made western civ so exceptional that those who undermine it are merely virtue signaling their dysfunction by their criticism of it.

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