The more I've been studying history, the more it just seems like a collection of atrocities, wars, and fuck-ups. It's been getting kind of depressing.
Lets talk about some good things that have happened in history for a change, things that have made the world today a better place to live.
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What about all of the inventors and scientists who have created new forms of medication and entertainment? We live longer than in the past and we have more fun things to do.
t b h the more recent the tragedy the sadder I become.
Reading about genocides 3000 years ago is fine
Remember OP, all events in history are caused because
> Weak men create hard times
> Hard times create strong men
> Strong men create good times
> Good times create weak men
Recent tragedies are terrible of course, but what I meant is that when I read about all this suffering in the past I think "I know where this is going, and all of this war will be for nothing because this empire collapses in a few decades anyway". It makes me feel like it's all been pointless.
This has to be the most reductionist meme ever created.
That stuff is definitely great, I was just thinking more in terms of creating a long term stable nation. Although technology would play a major role in that if used correctly.
Nope. Technological progress, with both its good and its bad consequences, is a bigger factor than that cycle.
Thomas Carlyle pls go
There was literally no progress in history for the average person until the year 1820, and even then things didn't really get comfortable until the 1920's
> According to the most recent estimates, in 2013, 10.7 percent of the world’s population lived on less than US$1.90 a day, compared to 12.4 percent in 2012. That’s down from 35 percent in 1990.
>I was just thinking more in terms of creating a long term stable nation.
Isn't history basically the study of long term nations? If your asking for a nation that NEVER dies your asking for fantasy. History is basically nothing but orderly. War for instance is very orderly.
When the Christian worldview replaced the pagan mindset. Edgelords will whine about "muh slave morality" but real human beings understand that this was unironically a positive development for Western civilization.
I can see more nekkid ladies in ten minutes on my computer than my grandfather could in his whole life.
Porn
Parents don't have to be prepared for one out of every three kids dying.
Could you elaborate on this?
The Nazis we're defeated in the 1940s, which paved the way for progressive countries like the United States to rise to power. Humam beings in developed countries have become more tolerant of each other and bias against race, sexuality and gender is slowly on the decline.
for starters
For the plebs, yeah.
>any of that being long term
>faggotry outlasting the century
think again decadent one
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The belief that humanity is the Imago Dei was completely transformative for Western thought. The entire Humanistic movement would not have been possible without the belief in an incarnate Logos.
For humanity.
>I'd rather have sand niggers cutting off hands then faggots!
Brown people deserve authoritarianism, I've found.
>When the Christian worldview replaced the pagan mindset.
this makes no sense there isn't ONE pagan mindset.
>2+2 = 5 is significantly different from 2+2 = 3
2+2 = 4 user and Jesus is the truth.