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Doc Dutch (05-08-2021)
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
AProudLefty (05-08-2021)
Naturally. But it wasn't for other kinds. Ever noticed how superior the British was and how the Roman Catholic Church had control of kingdoms?
Two words: languages and religions.
Autocrats have to find a way to remain rich and be freeloaders. It still continues to this day.
A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.
AProudLefty (05-08-2021)
I created this thread few weeks ago explaining how to hotlink images here.
https://www.justplainpolitics.com/sh...-Images-On-JPP
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
Languages started diversifying at least in the late Paleolithic, so clearly it had more to do with geographic isolation than with an elite economic class.
If anything, the trend is towards less diversification. The world might currently have about 6,000 languages, but many of them are going extinct and only about 200 are in wide use. I think I even heard that 85 percent of the people in the world speak one of the 20 most common languages. All other languages are marginal, or going extinct.
Linguistic history is pretty bloody interesting, with the exception of Appalachian hillbilly which I have no interest in. But I really like ancient languages, and would pay to see a performance of Beowulf in old Anglo-Saxon, and several times a year I can hear Church Slavonic.
As for all the horseshit buzzwords like Woke and Critical Race Theory, or whatever it is called, I tend to ignore it because they are gimmicks, and nobody is going to be using them in five years.
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