Oh yes. I read Neill at uni and was involved with the free school movement and the British home schooling organisation. So I am firmly partisan on thi...
I mean that whatever innovations they made would spread to their potential conquests by osmosis, aka trade. Very different from Europeans with guns re...
Agriculture, sugar, cotton mainly. I think the crucial developments were in navigation, boatbuilding and guns. I'd guess that the Romans were unable t...
It would be extremely interesting to do a control study on children from Summerhill, and that's about the nearest you could get to controlling for edu...
This handy timeline makes it clear that the slave trade predates the Enlightenment, and anything one can seriously call industry as we think of it. It...
Yes, the dichotomy between individualism and collectivism that plagues us at the moment is a false one. Difference does not entail conflict, individua...
Who knows, it's certainly possible, but China invented gunpowder, paper, and all kinds of stuff without feeling the need. It's obviously not a racial ...
Tangent to the debate, but closer to the title, have a look at this. My interpretation of this is that the form, as distinct from the content, of the ...
If you ever listened, you would not hear me say that white people never suffer discrimination. What you would hear me say is that there is a legacy fr...
I presented it as history. It presents a historical analysis that explains the roots of - amongst other current affairs the election of Trump. Being a...
So let's see. You dismiss as fake and propaganda a talk by a professor of History that you haven't heard, on the basis that it it is about white supre...
Dude a half hour monologue of history ranging over four centuries and several continents is way too dull to count as propaganda. The word 'nazi' thoug...
Have some history dudes. Explaining the place of Trump and all sorts of other inexplicable strangeness. https://soundcloud.com/historyworkshop/episode...
Well I likened roses to the Nation - why speak of the Nation? Patriotism is a vestige of another kind of relation to the world. People are difficult, ...
You answer for me, and better than me. "Ask not what the rose can do for you, ask what you can do for the rose." Feeding, weeding, pruning, debugging ...
How are these likes different from the rose's looking at you? I understand the contrast between the mutuality of relationship and the one way relation...
Give or take, it's the condition of being in the womb, which we're all familiar with. One is not exactly disconnected from all senses, but there is no...
'Silly' is totally inadequate. It's a contrarian's denial of reality exposed. If you don't have access to capital, you can't do jack shit, except shov...
A big question. But one can also ask, even more heretically, 'Is violence within the individual? I suggest that (the expression of) violence is normal...
I suspect that the ancients did not believe that all men were equal, so the case is entirely different anyway. My point is that the category of 'equal...
I thought it was 'equal in dignity and rights'. But the whole rationale for slavery is founded on the notion that slaves are not men, but only (charit...
So we see, or we used to see, a pattern of birds of a feather - a white feather - with long necks, webbed feet and quite big, and come up with a word ...
It's not that I sit on the fence about all these ismic controversies, so much as I find myself firmly on both sides; 'other' suggests something not ei...
I don't see that it could have been much better though. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/14/school-shootings-in-america-2018-how-many-so-far...
Does anyone happen to have a back-up of the old pf? I'd like to find an old thread of mine from June 2011 entitled 'Magic...!' Even just the op would ...
Thought you might find this interesting: "Well, one day in 1917 I was standing on the deck of my ship looking back at the wake—it was all white becaus...
Well yeah, people reject indoctrination - especially when the indoctrination places them at a disadvantage, say black kids in the US for example. And ...
I don't think you are free to make up the meaning of words, rather you are obliged to adhere to the meanings assigned by the community. To learn the l...
It is self-evident that I am responding to you, and that the language of my response is English. You can see for yourself that it is so, or you will b...
Can I suggest that you do not even need this assumption. It is sufficient that things can get better or they can get worse, and one ought to move in t...
Yeah, let's not go into the rights and wrongs of it here. "Interesting and original" becomes "madness" when you accuse the department handing out the ...
Supposing that the future is not like the past requires an equally selective view. It is, presumably, the same bottle of wine that was full and is now...
Fuck, do you want to go another round or twocannot be derived from experience. No, I'm being totally unfair to Kant here, because this is a thread abo...
Yes. We reason from it, but we cannot reason to it. Which is about what Kant in his long-winded way eventually arrives at; one might say that it is pa...
You're muddling the tenses. "My past experience has proven, that in certain circumstances (ex. the laws of nature) the future has been like the past."...
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