Well, with the previous Republican President (Bush the younger), there was one of the greatest conspiracy theories AGAINST the Republicans. And of cou...
Cultural / Societal / Civilizational collapse could be defined as: Notice the "loss of cultural identity". Societies can fall to environmental disaste...
We could discuss this on a more general level on the status of the autonomy of Scotland versus a sovereign state. The Scottish Parliament can decide o...
In a similar way here the Capital region and Southern Finland was closed for a while from the rest of Finland. The Police and also the Armed Forces we...
I would think similar. I assume that it gives just a figure in the ballpark of the amount of assets now transferred to be managed under EU jurisdictio...
Yes. The importance of language is obvious in that anthropology, the study of human societies and cultures and their development, has as one of it's m...
What was up with the fish? I gather the image of a sovereign nation with deep historical links to the sea and to the times when territory was most imp...
Yes, a picture from a Hollywood blockbuster film with an American actor with ties to Australia obviously makes the point. At least the film was filmed...
More like built-in contempt for the Scots. Because today they don't have any border to England as they are part of the UK. However, Scotland has been ...
Or simply there wasn't enough wildlife to hunt. Hunter gatherers simply have to be few, while agriculture can support far larger populations. And of c...
Would that cabal be called "the aristocracy"? I think that is a bit too conspirational. Farming and cities emerging because of their utility (and nece...
You tell me the example of a culture, not a sub-culture, that isn't linked to a language. Things like the literature and songs are obviously part of a...
I think you are interpreting it correctly. Especially in our time of globalization there is a huge interaction between cultures, which things like the...
Quite easily, as you can see from Trump supporters. Simply just make up your mind that the media is utterly corrupt and evil and will try telling ever...
As the topic is cultural decay that ends in a cultural collapse and what are the reason how this happens, it should be obvious that the focus is on dr...
Let's first remind ourselves what the term culture encompasses. One often used definition is by Edward Tylor and is the following: "that complex whole...
I can understand you perfectly. Yes, his little book was published before the invasion of Iraq. He was dutifully also publicly smeared later and made ...
You think this is short-term? Why? Just when do think the global economy will roar back to a state that nothing has happened? All those service sector...
Perhaps you should take a real time machine and sit down and have a discussion with healthy and sharp people who are in the age range of 70 to 80 year...
The UK administration isn't similar to the Trump tirade. I think managing a country through a pandemic has been a burden for Johnson and if he earlier...
You think so? Well, here is Professor Sir David Speigelhalter himself saying the EXACT OPPOSITE of what you are saying. You can make country compariso...
Merky, talking about slave morality you're definitely starting to rant like a 9/11 truther, because we aren't discussing Nietzsche. Building WTC 7 you...
Quite the usual stuff similar to the stimulus packages during Obama, actually. And of course, it's his administration, but seems like he is already co...
Sorry, but this seems a bit too far fetched. But that's just my opinion. If true, it would be the mother of all distractions or yelling "LOOK, A SQUIR...
Yeah, there aren't statisticians in the World who would notice the differences in the reporting fatalities, Merky. And of course, hundreds of thousand...
A great commentary, thanks Rafaella. :up: Or reaches a point of evolution that we cannot see other similarities between the past and the present (the ...
I assume you are well under 60 then. :wink: 60 Years? If we would be transported 60 years back to the year 1960, I think we would survive in the count...
Let's start with the fact that we agree on that an 8% increase is substantial. There simply is nothing to deny this and this is the fact based on stat...
1) People are basically anonymous here. 2) Our income and jobs don't depend of what we talk here: people don't have a monetary incentive in the debate...
What I wonder is just your irrationality. So just because Californians are whiners seems enough of a reason for you to doubt the pandemic or the stati...
Notice how there is a division between what is basically economic history and the classical history. Today it's harder to make the point of something ...
, there is the thread by called Are we on the verge of a cultural collapse?, where this is discussed. Have we been in decline since the 19th Century w...
Now Trump's farce is starting to reach the insanity which it deserves, I think. The just pardoned Michael Flynn, promoted the idea that Trump ought to...
How about the stats that there is a shortage of ICU beds in states like California? (All quite normal?) https://www.nj.com/resizer/-1VnDuNg9BVmaPfX-8E...
The Finnish government firmly believes in the EU, and thus is waiting patiently for the EU to decide, or more specifically the European Medicines Agen...
People are getting tired of it. Especially Americans. Hardly noticing that they lose daily same number of people as in 9/11 in the pandemic. I guess I...
I guess if we redefine the population requirements for a "society" to some odd little cabal of people, give them lots of resources, then I guess extre...
This idea seems very popular in America where there seems to be little knowledge about the historical wedge between communists and social democrats ex...
Far better would be make the separation of communism/marxism/marxism-leninism with social democracy (or democratic socialism) and the New Left here. L...
Well, my point above is that it's the exact same two parties, same two cabals, which just rotate from one to the another. In a democracy it would be h...
I'm not so sure about this that there is little or almost nothing known even about the deep sources of power in these countries. Authoritarian countri...
What special plan do you need? It's simply to a) not have a valid third party emerge to ruin the show and b) keep the people polarized as then they wi...
Naturally we are interested here in the Biden administration, as obviously it's now very current: Kamala Harris: I'll leave this one as there are obvi...
I don't think so. I think the "polarization" is a means to keep the present system up. The worse the situation is for more Americans, the more polariz...
My conclusion is that ruling elite in the US wants the country to be divided. And the elite is extremely successful in this. Many people go along with...
Which key demographics are you referring to? And more importantly, I think one should refer here to distinct vaccines, or is it really alleged that al...
As now the election results are official, Barr steps out. Now Trump is truly in La-la-land, if it comes to the elections. How many days is it? Still o...
Good that you referred yourself to a political opinion here. Being against the political decisions is different to being against the technological or ...
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