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Anyone who calls Hitler a communist has no idea what they’re talking about. Or they are hoping you don’t. Elon is stupid but he’s not that stupid. I will have to look but I swear I’ve seen him quote this famous line which itself highlights how leftists were the principle enemy to the Nazis and the first ones jailed and killed. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...

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Reading The Fifth Sun made me think of this: There is typically a divide that emerges very quickly between the people who are actually themselves pushing the frontier and the establishment that created them. Cortes needs legal loopholes to make it seem like he’s not disobeying the Spanish crown, and this divide continues immediately with the Spanish viceroys, governors, encomenderos, etc. Up to the criollos that declare independence. Obviously similar things happen in North America also, but this is happening right now with the internet. Some east coast elites defected to Silicon Valley to push on the frontier and there has been an ongoing struggle between that establishment and those pushing on the frontier for almost 30 years. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Sun:_A_New_History_of_the_Aztecs

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“But they depended on the state administrators when it came to irrigation and flood control, the provision of iron tools, and access to goods which they could not grow themselves. They could conceive of a world in which the administrators behaved better and the landowners did not squeeze them.”

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https://networkoftime.com/

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It’s a funny double standard that the Reconquista doesn’t get a super critical treatment compared to the Crusades

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Never underestimate the power of pure confidence https://navalhistoria.com/julius-caesar/#google_vignette

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I started watching the documentary "Civilization: A Personal View by Kenneth Clark", through a recommendation from @gokhan.eth. It made me realize that I had never really looked into the end of the Roman Empire (end of civilization), the world after, Christianity after the fall and the barbarians in particular. https://youtu.be/sX_r9R98DiY?feature=shared

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CHRISTMAS CAME EARLY, NEW SEAN MUNGER!! https://youtu.be/K02XztUrUik

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I read history - not to be less pessimistic about the present, but because it make me more optimistic and excited about the future

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Great piece that explains why you should read history. Not to "learn from the past's mistakes" as some tedious people think, but to correct this little quirk of the brain that tends towards doomsdaying. When you read history, you realize, 1) some things are eternal and it’s better to come to terms with them than fret needlessly, 2) almost nothing is eternal, even and especially what was once thought eternal, and that progress is possible, solutions can be found, and we can make things better, and 3) everyone always thinks the world is ending, and they have always been wrong (so far). https://substack.com/home/post/p-153316573

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https://www.oldmapsonline.org/en/history/regions

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Bet you didn't know you needed to hear this! You can thank me later. https://youtu.be/Xtt78SW-mgg

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You keep using that phrase. I do not think it means what you think it means! https://acoup.blog/2024/12/20/collections-on-bread-and-circuses/

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Interesting post by @balajis.eth about tribalization in the 21st century. What I find really interesting is the map of Germany before Bismarck's unification of Germany. The interesting thing is that many people in Germany still identify more with their regional affiliation than with their national German identity. For example, a Swabian finds it more important to be a Swabian than a German. The same applies to Bavarians or Saxons. https://x.com/balajis/status/1869997639175139452

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Reminds me of the legend of Prester John (Presbyter Ioannes) The Letters of Prester John was a letter that was circulated during The Crusades (I forget? 1165? 12th century I think?) and he was this embellished character who found riches and became a king in Ethiopia or India, or wherever was pretty far away, he was supposedly originally a Christian Monarch, and became this ideal or myth of hey look if we retake Jerusalem in the name of God, you can also get pretty rich too. One of the earliest forms of medieval propaganda and storytelling that worked https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prester_John

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