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noam chomsky gets so much praise for his pre grammar ideas, but wittgenstein beat him to the punch and had a more profound insight
Hmmm... I'll put him on my 'To Read' list.
well, he changes his mind on key stuff
but you should look up the Beetle in the Box thought experiment
that he had
it's a good window into what hes interested in
Here's something I'm reading right now.
Analysis of Norse myth. Specifically, the parallels between the Hrolf Kraki legends and Beowulf. Very well researched. Worth a read.
I'm fully immersed in local geopol and political history shit rn
in terms of reading
looking at lots of maps
and whatnot
Right now, I'm listening to a debate between Boris Johnson and Mary Beard, on Greece v Rome. It's glorious.
lol
i listened to that a long time ago
imagine being called "Beard" and being a woman
sad times
she came out defending that bbc black roman cartoon
lmfao
she seems respected as a historian, but ive always noticed a kind of wishful thinking on her part
like she emphasizes the things she wants to be true
in these cases Rome's multicultural aspects
She has excellent knowledge of history, but yes, she does have quite a strong bias.
and suddenly that turns into, its entirely possibly for there to be a family of african romans in britain
so common it warrants this depiction on the bbc
it's not impossible
but the possibility is not the point here
true
cartoon equivalent of this
we wuz compozers an shiiiiit
The problem is that they exaggerated the amount of black people in Roman Britain. A handful of black soldiers makes sense, since there were soldiers from the north of Africa, but to have them ALL be black or mixed-race is absurd.
Yes, we wuz Kangs.
this is woke history tho
its history designed to create like a new mythos for multicultural britain
According to Geoffrey of Monmouth, We Wuz Trojans. This kind of bullshit has been around for centuries.
Not quite. The problem isn't inaccuracy as such. I mean it is, but that is a minor problem because that might as well be caused by a glitch in the system that allowed through someone who was wrong to spread their honest mistake. Here it is lying on purpose for the benefit of a political agenda, and doing so systematically.
Steven Moffat the tv producer succinctly summarized the agenda talking about black washing on doctor who
"We've kind of got to tell a lie. We'll go back into history and there will be black people where, historically, there wouldn't have been, and we won't dwell on that.
"We'll say, 'To hell with it, this is the imaginary, better version of the world. By believing in it, we'll summon it forth'."
that last part is the motto of much of this revisionism
It's not error, it's the rejection of logocentrism.