@AlexTISYoung Endogamy produces a whole bunch of cultural ills beyond genetic degradation.
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@fuzzbool
shill for the military industrial complex and global financial system
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Banning cousin marriage is coercive eugenics by any reasonable definition. Ergo, Sweden practices coercive eugenics.
Visegrád 24@visegrad24
Sweden has just BANNED cousin marriage and close relative marriage! 🇸🇪
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@SteveStuWill Comparative advantage for labour, which is why they have declined post-industrially.
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“Why would natural selection wipe the slate clean of these sex differences in our species alone, only for us to then reinvent the same set of sex differences in every society on record?”
stevestewartwilliams.com/p/first-review…
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@NicholasD91704 The labour conditions of a bee farm are probably vastly superior to most of the sweat shops where your clothes are made.
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@maxvonhippel Did Feynman never learn anything challenging?
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People like Sahil tell on themselves — they’ve never learned anything extremely challenging (p-adic hodge theory, HoTT, infinite dimensional analysis, combinatorics, etc)
Sahil Bloom@SahilBloom
This is a major life hack: Richard Feynman was known for his ability to convey complex ideas in simple, elegant ways. Remember this rule the next time someone tries to fast talk you with a bunch of fancy words, acronyms, and jargon...
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I feel like a lot of reviews and general takeaways from Obsession, whether positive or negative, attempt to box it in when the movie’s clear goal is to take a genuine, honest look at how bad people (Bear) come to be via compromises, decisions, and indecisions.
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@GwenLovesMovies He is evil but the evil stems from him being a coward and a massive pussy.
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I think anyone who comes out of OBSESSION thinking that Bear is just an evil piece of shit, lacks nuance.... yes, he's selfish and ultimately tries taking advantage of a fucked up situation. But he's also very clearly unwell and mistrusting of a friend who's a massive POS.
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@DaemonDiomedes @OGTaylorB @Athens_Stranger @romanhelmetguy Impressive, but not sure how it relates.
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@fuzzbool @OGTaylorB @Athens_Stranger @romanhelmetguy So, mostly Greeks of the Byzantium saved texts of ancient Greeks to end up with less than 1% of ancient greek literature surviving. So the impact to western world from ancient Greece is a result of 1% of their actual offering.
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You can’t say “courageous” in Greek without saying “manliness” because it’s the same word
Now do you begin to see why our classicists despise Homer, the classical Greeks more broadly, and revel in defending their perverse translations and interpretations of all the texts?
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@DaemonDiomedes @OGTaylorB @Athens_Stranger @romanhelmetguy I don’t think the church is some bastion of progress, they just preserved more of the culture that surrounded them.
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@fuzzbool @OGTaylorB @Athens_Stranger @romanhelmetguy Christians did both destroy and save ancient texts. Do you know whats the % of saved texts from ancient Greece?
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@DaemonDiomedes @OGTaylorB @Athens_Stranger @romanhelmetguy No, I think you’re misunderstanding the argument.
I think the Renaissance understanding of antiquity was very akin to the Victorian understanding of the Middle Ages.
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@fuzzbool @OGTaylorB @Athens_Stranger @romanhelmetguy All the countries and mostly the great powers anticipate their antagonist moves exactly the way thucydides told them they should. I am not sure you understand how systems work. You think that mayans in America, aboriginals in australia and Greeks in Europe are the same prelude?
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@DaemonDiomedes @OGTaylorB @Athens_Stranger @romanhelmetguy Mostly on account of Greek texts surviving via Rome and later the Church.
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@fuzzbool @OGTaylorB @Athens_Stranger @romanhelmetguy The Enlightment you are talking about, is a result of the philosophers of that time. A concept that existed because anciet Greeks gave birth to it and alowed for future develpments within the western world system they created.
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@DaemonDiomedes @OGTaylorB @Athens_Stranger @romanhelmetguy In a technical sense, obviously. But the idea of the modern west, absolutely not. That is a recent invention.
The Ancient Greeks would not be recognizably “Western” to modern eyes.
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@fuzzbool @OGTaylorB @Athens_Stranger @romanhelmetguy Now we have to argue about facts. Western civilization was born in Greece. Thats not debatable. Whatever happened in the west since then of course affected the end result of today. Still whatever happens in the western world will always find its roots in ancient Greece.
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@DaemonDiomedes @OGTaylorB @Athens_Stranger @romanhelmetguy To the extent that is true, it is in a vague sense that is applicable to all premodern societies.
Ancient Greece itself is better understood as an extension of the rest of the ancient Mediterranean than as part of an Occident that didn’t yet exist.
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@fuzzbool @OGTaylorB @Athens_Stranger @romanhelmetguy If you bother to read anything regarding ancient Greece you will realize that their societies had EXACTLY the same issues we have today. On a ridiculous level.. Like we just go throught what they went through again and again.
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@DaemonDiomedes @OGTaylorB @Athens_Stranger @romanhelmetguy No, they returned to their romanticized idea of what Greco-Roman society was like. The Renaissance and especially the enlightenment actually beared very little resemblance.
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@fuzzbool @OGTaylorB @Athens_Stranger @romanhelmetguy So you now literally told me that the most successful civilizational output is a result of europeans returning to classical Greek and Roman values, learning, art, and philosophy.
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@DaemonDiomedes @OGTaylorB @Athens_Stranger @romanhelmetguy I think it probably hurt more than helped.
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@fuzzbool @OGTaylorB @Athens_Stranger @romanhelmetguy So you believe that the hate towards 50% of the population and the exclusive civilization growth occuring by men didnt play a role in the result?
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@DaemonDiomedes @OGTaylorB @Athens_Stranger @romanhelmetguy Not sure I agree. The distinctiveness of the modern west is much more an outgrowth of medieval Christianity than antiquity.
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@fuzzbool @OGTaylorB @Athens_Stranger @romanhelmetguy You understand that you live in a system they created and whatever nonsense you may think about, its because they thought about it back then. your argument here exists only because Plato and Socrates supported it back then.
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@DaemonDiomedes @OGTaylorB @Athens_Stranger @romanhelmetguy Medieval —> Modern Europe was the most successful civilizational output ever and also consistently the least restrictive re women.
All and all, you’re wrong about the Ancient Greeks respecting women in any capacity. You can respect their achievements w/o romanticizing the bad.
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@DaemonDiomedes @OGTaylorB @Athens_Stranger @romanhelmetguy Ancient Greece was a highly chaotic patchwork of warring city states. Wartime rape and wanton civilian murder didn’t just happen but were glorified.
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@DaemonDiomedes @OGTaylorB @Athens_Stranger @romanhelmetguy Yes. I’m telling your prominent goddesses don’t really tell you much about the level of misogyny in society.
Afghanistan doesn’t have goddesses solely because it’s now monotheistic. The status of women there is remarkably unchanged from when it did have a similar paganism.
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