Category: Civilization, History, and Anthropology

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—“Modern histories basically give a very cursory study of the classical world, skip the Middle Ages, treat the non western world purely as victims except for non orientalist empires they write a sentence about to glorify without any context. Then they obsess over western modern humanist thinkers while ignoring most of them were “militaristic racists” or religious fanatics They draw the right to rule from those who would reject them. Even a democrat politician or the Soviet Union from 1970 would view the modern left as an abomination”– @whatifalthist – Rudyard Lynch

This is clear, simple, perfect, true.