The thing is that few explain the present by referring to the 19th Century, where you really had Prussia. I think you correctly understand that late 1...
How much is it about culture, how much about past events? Things what we look as "our culture" are quite positive things. So why political differences...
In the end there's a golden rule: understand the limitations of your methodology. There's really nothing wrong with using psychology in looking at pol...
I will surely bet that those that are either for or against universal healthcare differ in their personal traits. The views that they hold on universa...
And fortunately (or unfortunately) to those that waited for the revolution to happen, it never came as the problems and the largest injustices were de...
? Living in one Nordic country and knowing all my life the local Social Democracy, I'd say this is not true. The central government might transfer aut...
Depends on the question you have in mind. You can see perhaps differences in the personality traits among people who have as pets cats opposite to dog...
The most effective way for any society is simply to disregard or think that the person is crazy, or has obviously some personal problems. Of course cr...
Talking so much about Prussian militarism and Prussian bureaucracy, it should be noted that one of the most important pillars of the modern science an...
Why create something new, when the old still works? Just wait for a new generation to come around, and then repeat the old dogmas. They are new ideas ...
I disagree. You cannot depoliticize the society. People simply disagree. That is human nature. Yet even if we disagree, we can make things together. I...
It's evident from where the author comes and what his personal stance is. Without having read the book (and it doesn't seem interesting), but by just ...
If you refer to the Studio system lead by Eastern European Jewish immigrants, that has changed. But still the industry that is based in the US exists,...
Did that actually stop? I think Hollywood still exists. I think this era will pass as did the other times too. From the mass of mediocrity (and hypocr...
Wasn't it , immediately at the first reply on this thread? Sorry, but if a book would be let's say about evolution, perhaps it would be good to know t...
Quick google searches are easy to do and then you can know where people come from. I hope such questions could be discussed. But I think the Site guid...
Just to refer to Kevin B. Macdonald, who was himself endorsing the mentioned author: Yep, Frank, what quacks like a duck... But let's have an open min...
Westerns are an excellent example how a genre simply creates it's own separate reality from the actual history. TV and film in Westerns have always ju...
How to deal with a cartoon figure-like racist is one thing, but racism or xenophobia go viral only if there is some actual act behind the reason (or c...
Lol. :lol: Yes, inflation is coming. And the correct term would be stagflation. What's the worst that could happen? That we all will be millionaires. ...
Ideas and views aren't a crime, actions and instigating others to act might be. But anyway. So you have your neighborhood Nazi. Not just the odd crazy...
I think that both political sides have their own share of what could be referred as "loony". You can find their actions well documented by the media s...
Well count my first responses in that category! Benkei, like in and others put me into line that this was something serious and I was downplaying the ...
Yes. It's a great thing when people are thought to be as good competent soldiers and the people to be determined to fight thanks to the past actions o...
Kyllä (Yes). On the other hand, the pandemic has been for us rather easy (compared to our western neighbour): the health system hasn't been under seri...
Does it have to? It seems that restraint in the use of deadly violence (yet otherwise maintaining a large crackdown), persistence and not backing down...
I think this goes to the heart of the matter. It's the historical narrative that we use to define our tradition that makes us view things like this. A...
If you think that Europe had the Roman Empire before in Antiquity, it isn't. at all. Having huge cities like Rome or Constantinople means that you hav...
Seems like the EU botched it up with the centralized vaccination program. As typical, where the EU, there a problem. (By this stats, even Chile is bea...
In Europe feudalism can be viewed as the result of when the state is incapable of gaining and upholding a centralized power. Simply put it, when those...
Thanks for sharing that lecture from Susan Haack. Yes, indeed careerism and bureaucracy are the pitfalls of modern academic research. One of the many ...
If that would happen, what in your mind would be the point of view and the most important topics on such a broad and complex issue? Assuming people co...
Hyperinflation is basically the universal distrust in a currency being a store of value: people may need to use it, but know it's basically worthless....
As I said, bit off from actual monetary policy. But I guess what is considered and accepted as money is monetary policy in the broader sense. Those me...
The "monetary policy" in Bitcoin is a) do governments allow it or not and b) do those using it believe in it's value or not. There's no government abl...
When philosophers (or should we be more precise people who are interested in philosophy) are talking about investments, that is a sign for me. Basical...
Isn't he working for some fund, investment house or billionaire. It's the typical place where mathematicians etc end up in: as quants. Why do somethin...
Well, the simple fact is that sectors that aren't there to make money are then judged somehow by some metrics in order to be proclaimed to be efficien...
When this thread goes out of fashion again for a year ...or even six months, that's when bitcoin is very interesting. At least it has dealt obstacles,...
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