Message from @IUisbae
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we kinda ended up fucking up qing with all that opium though
imo @IUisbae's position can be sumarized as this: war could be an important condition for technical development, but is not a sufficient condition
yes that is my position
IQ could matter
but war is an important catalyst
for innovation
especially back then
there is very little need for innovation unless there is war
Look at where we went technologically between the first world war and today
Why does America invent so much stuff
culture of inventing i guess
and that too
american didn't invent that much though, The germans invented most of the stuff. and the USA ran with it
because there's economic motivation and our two favorite pastimes include baseball and fucking people up
germans are the smartest europeans
the US developed those inventions
honestly
hands down
just like the greeks and the romans
regardless of their ethicality, there intelligence is very high
the greeks laid the groundwork and the romans perfected it
no doubt about it
exactly @TradChad
Wehraboo d e t e c t e d
I've been trying to figure out why China used to be more developed then Europe
then europe overtook it
and that reason is war
i think
maybe china was never more developed
r o f l
r o f l
r o f l
I'd argue Qing Dynasty
it was more developde
Germany capitulated already my dude
developed
sorry to break it to ya
no @Thule-Gesellschaft [☩] . you forget that there were 2 germanies until 1990's.
that's half of the population under marxist ideology for decades
Isn't there some portion of Europe where 98% of all technological innovation occured?