By: Splunge
Mr. Bad Example: "As long as it means I can live in an anarcho-syndicalist commune and take it in turns to act as sort-of-executive officer for the week, I'm good" Paging Milo...
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The 21st century will resemble nothing more than the 12th Except of course for all the ways it won't resemble the 12th century at all. A strong, but not totally overwhelming United States in an era of...
View ArticleBy: Uther Bentrazor
When I saw the link initially, i thought it was by Praga Khan, and was like "When did the dude from Lords Of Acid become so involved in geopolitics?"
View ArticleBy: Slap*Happy
The 21st century will resemble nothing more than the 12th Ignatius J. Reilly approves.
View ArticleBy: kliuless
The strange death of the technocracyThe Fed is perhaps the obvious target. The insurrectionists object to the notion of fiat (or-government-made) money. On both left and right there is fundamental...
View ArticleBy: viborg
...And the Stross piece: I'm sorry to note that most of the good stuff didn't happen to those of us in the developed world Curses! Fooled into reading substanceless pablum again!
View ArticleBy: viborg
God, I hope not. Now why did I bother reading that article? Should have checked the comments first, I guess.
View ArticleBy: Guy_Inamonkeysuit
Does mean that the Society for Creative Anachronism will be taking over?
View ArticleBy: Apocryphon
I like how this was posted on the same day as thsy Amy Chua article was reposted.
View ArticleBy: Skygazer
Parag Khanna is a twat. I'm dating his sister Krav Maga. She can makes it hurt so good.
View ArticleBy: ninjew
As long as it means I can live in an anarcho-syndicalist commune and take it in turns to act as sort-of-executive officer for the week, I'm good. that's all fine until it's not your week and the guy...
View ArticleBy: spaltavian
Doomsayers throw in the "relative" caveat when talking about an American decline, but they ignore exactly how relative it would be. If, over night, the United States lost a third of its military...
View ArticleBy: The Whelk
seriously my favorite part of A Distant Mirror is when during the question of who was Pope, the Roman Cardinals tried to one-up the Avignon court by electing a low court official they thought they...
View ArticleBy: George_Spiggott
the US is the new Byzantium, facing both east and west while in a state of relative decline. The Byzantines lasted for many centuries beyond their material capability, through shrewd diplomacy and...
View ArticleBy: damn dirty ape
I liked the Stross piece. Even though I logically knew these things, I never really considered the breakneck progress of the past ten years. Heck, the fact that we haven't had a nuclear war by now is a...
View ArticleBy: munchingzombie
My undergrad degree is in history and I can't tell you how many classes began like this: Prof: "what use is studying history?" Class: "Because history repeats itself." Prof: "NO YOU FUCKING IDIOTS!...
View ArticleBy: Mr. Bad Example
As long as it means I can live in an anarcho-syndicalist commune and take it in turns to act as sort-of-executive officer for the week, I'm good.
View ArticleBy: Postroad
I didn't realize they had wi fi in the middle ages! Ok. I can live with that sort of thing.
View ArticleBy: storybored
This is really progress because in the 80s we were worried about being bombed back into the Stone Age.
View ArticleBy: Iridic
fuckyeahcontrarianism.tumblr.com NOT FOUND. Are you sure? I got a redirect to Slate.
View ArticleBy: oneswellfoop
...and not just limited to the gun+powder/chemical variety. I totally agree and wish I'd made THAT clearer. First draft used word "tools", but it didn't seem to make my point.
View ArticleBy: Splunge
I'm so glad that I'm a reniass... renisac... reennisianc... reniscience... Modern man.
View ArticleBy: fantodstic
...because we have so much more powerful weapons now. ...and not just limited to the gun+powder/chemical variety.
View ArticleBy: oneswellfoop
...we're not really that much smarter or better as a people than we were hundreds of years ago. It's comforting, in a way, but frightening also. ...because we have so much more powerful weapons now.
View ArticleBy: fantodstic
God, this is so strained and pointless. What valuable lesson does his specious insight teach us? That we should have a new Black Death so wages rise and culture becomes more humanistic? I'd say the...
View ArticleBy: cthuljew
When I dream I get mistaken memories of medieval Manhattan... Dang it, now I really, really wanna reread Transmetropolitan again.
View ArticleBy: The Whelk
When I dream I get mistaken memories of medieval Manhattan And the world is upside down But my mind is turning on Milk is spilling from the murdered sun I see masturbating monks on 42nd Street Rats...
View ArticleBy: Sidhedevil
Santayana was slightly wrong: if one does not understand history, one will be compelled to repeat it blog about it.
View ArticleBy: stbalbach
Neo-medievalism, an old idea co-opted by left and right for different purposes and with slippery meanings.
View ArticleBy: ovvl
Why oh why is this new year's crop of scare stories so much like last years? Sounds like business as usual to me: the more things change, etc.
View ArticleBy: parmanparman
Someone just messaged me to say I won't be laughing when I am "in the hands of the yellow peril." Fuck you, baiter.
View ArticleBy: immlass
fuckyeahcontrarianism.tumblr.com NOT FOUND. Dammit, you got my hopes up. Also, as a medieval historian by training, my initial reaction was "what horseshit" and that was only slightly dampened by...
View ArticleBy: saturday_morning
LOOK AT THIS CONTRARIAN!!! I had to check and see if www.lookatthisfuckingcontrarian.com was taken.
View ArticleBy: outlandishmarxist
How to write an article that everyone will quote: 1) take an argument from the social sciences, in this case, Saskia Sassen's discussions of state sovereignty; 2) grossly exaggerate the claims being...
View ArticleBy: drjimmy11
So the puppy was a dog, but the industry my friends... that was a Revolution!
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