My definitive, all-answering take on how people work. Obviously answers everything perfectly and won't upset anyone at all. /snark, in case you couldn't tell.
#Psychology
#Sociology
#History
http://astrorhysy.blogspot.com/2024/05/a-theory-of-human-nature.html
#Uncovering the mysteries of #Stonehenge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT3_AJNbw8I
Trepanning, elongated skulls and healing energies are just some of the amazing discoveries from Stonehenge, explored in #MariaWheatley’s new #book, The Secret #History of Stonehenge. Maria joins me to talk about the energised water, the highly polished coloured stones and the musical harmonies of the #megalithic circle.
LINK: https://theaveburyexperience.co.uk/
Email Maria: mariawheatley@aol.com
#healing #neolithic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtKz9H6HnS4
Lost #Ancient #Technology with #ChristopherDunn! #Giza The #Tesla #Connection, Precision, Core Drills!
https://thebulletin.org/2024/05/a-plague-comes-before-the-fall-lessons-from-roman-history/
BBC News - Cardiff: Century-old photos of mixed-heritage families unearthed - BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cld0dngn61po
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYhG02O5mIw
The #folklore and folk #magic associated with the #Whitethorn.
Part of a series of videos on the sacred trees of Britain and Ireland, their associations in the #Ogham ' #Celtic' #Tree #Alphabet and their symbolism, folklore, #mythology and practical and magical applications in #history and today.
The #May-Tree, or #Hawthorne or Whitethorn is sometimes thought of as the sister tree to the Blackthorn.
It is an ambivalent tree with both positive and negative associations in the Old Ways. A lot of this is to do with the #fairy folk, the good people or the Sídhe.
In the Ogham, it represents the letter #H ( #Huath) and denotes fear and horror.
Other associations include #healing, #fertility, sexuality, #protection, boundaries and #death.
https://sfba.social/@historyofpunkrock/112437134439938793 historyofpunkrock@sfba.social - Happy Birthday to David Byrne, Scottish-American musician, founding member, lead singer and guitarist of the American band Talking Heads, born on this day in 1952, Dumbarton, Scotland
#punkrock #postpunk #newwave #davidbyrne #talkingheads #history #otd
If we don't want the federation and mastodon to become an echo chamber of moronic pseudo-liberals, we should move on.
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The #opensources and federated internet in a philosophical, social and political classification. -------
#oss #foss #philosophie #philosophy #politik #politics #history #literatur #anarchie
I never read Thucydides himself, only Donald Kagan's The Peloponnesian War. Excellent book. Made me think that ancient Greece had basically done WWII and WWI but in reverse order...
Most assume that Thucydides tried to offer his reader a type of foreknowledge that could potentially translate into active control over the politico-historical process. Taken to its extreme, this ‘optimistic’ interpretation reads History of the Peloponnesian War as a sort of ‘political systems users’ manual’, as Josiah Ober put it, capable of creating expert political technicians. Recognising regularities in the historical process, it is thought, should lead to predictive capacity, which in turn allows for political mastery.
While I agree that some very strong tempering of expectations is needed, I find it a bit weird when historians go out of their way to claim they have no political insights whatsoever (this it not, I hasten to add, what the author claims here). If you can't find any parallels then what was the point of studying it ? It seems like a feigned profession of objectivity, much how certain varieties of pacifism look an awful lot like surrendering to the fascists. Likewise, I've been confused recently because several books on my wish list have had reviews where the readers are actually dismayed that the author has attempted to draw parallels with current events. And that's both worrying and bizarre. Do they actually just want historical escapism ? Are they objecting to their perceived criticism of the far right loonies ? Probably the latter, methinks.
Thucydides was not writing social science as we know it. To the extent that his text articulated anything like fundamental laws of political behaviour, it did so through exemplary instances and carefully curated parallelisms. The Peloponnesian War served as a paradigmatic event for Thucydides: a particular instance that revealed general truths. It served this representative role, however, not because it was typical. Rather, it was exemplary because it was uniquely ‘great’. The war would prove useful, in other words, not because of history’s strict repetition, but by the pregnancy of similarity and the reader’s ability to parse analogies effectively.
As I've said before, direct analogies, actual literal parallels, are both rare and uninteresting. Indirect analogies, which do have some (but only some !) similarities, are much more interesting because they require more careful thought to understand : which similarities are relevant, which are coincidental, which disparities are irrelevant to the point, etc. The skill of the commentator is to select the most relevant similarities.
The evident lesson behind all of this is that we must learn how to choose the right parallels if we are to judge well in politics. But Thucydides also knew that we did not have full control of the analogies that shape our deliberations, especially in public life... The seductive pull of ‘great’ events is not an incidental danger to the use of historical analogies. Analogies [often] serve more as vehicles for generating awe and outrage than for unearthing more nuanced understandings.
It is reasonable to think that Thucydides expected his work to hinder the ability of bad actors to abuse this power. At the same time, it is unclear just how far it was in his ability to do so. The Athenians, after all, had everything they needed to realise the truth about the Tyrannicides. What they lacked was the will to scrutinise something that they felt to be intuitively correct. Thucydides could give posterity an account of the Peloponnesian War that might stop it from becoming fodder for false parallels if considered carefully. But he could not thereby prevent opportunists from constructing misleading analogies on its back.
#History
#Politics
#Psychology
https://aeon.co/essays/what-thucydides-really-thought-about-historical-analogies
If the Templars returned from the middle east with their stolen treasure and old artefacts to set up Switzerland as a neutral location to keep it to themselves, wonder why the local monarchs and Chieftains they took the land from handed it over so welcomingly without a fight.
The #Higherside #Chats #THC - #Sean #Hanlon - The #Hidden Hand Of #History, Continuity Of Control, & The 3rd Truth
1 hour 11 minutes - Posted May 12, 2024
About Today’s Guest: #SeanHanlon is an author, research, and public speaker from #Ireland.
His books are:
The Hidden Hand of History – The Enemy Within
The 3rd Truth – The Global Lockdown Agenda & the Coming Great Reset – It’s Not What You Think it Is
Sean’s Website: the3rdtruth.com
Sean on Twitter: twitter.com/SeanHan55375885See less
Sean Hanlon | The Hidden Hand Of History, Continuity Of Control, & The 3rd Truth • The Higherside Chats
#Zibaldone #History #WalkingTour #Balham #UK #JoolzGuides #London
A film I've done a few years ago about three episodes of the Second World War in Italy: the life of an Italian soldier imprisoned in Germany; a Jewish child hiding in a cellar in the historic center of the town of Crema; a boy, returning from work, discovers that his home has been destroyed by an aerial bombardment.
#BreakfastVideo #History #LondonTransit #JagoHazzard #London #History
#History #Language #English #Writing #Zibaldone #BreakfastVideo #RobWords
BBC Archive on X: "#OnThisDay 1960: A British schoolgirl cheerily told Judith Chalmers about her holiday, which involved accidentally getting arrested in East Germany. https://t.co/rxVBeU1Psb" / X
Fascinating story!
#history #Germany #Britain
@Girl Of The Sea
#german #history #us #folk #art
Mermaid Fraktur. German
- Small painting of a Mermaid done in early Fraktur style. Ink, Watercolor & graphite on the inside of an old book cover. It looks like it has been cared for and handed down from generation to generation
- Fraktur is a highly artistic and elaborate illuminated folk art created by the Pennsylvania Dutch, named after the Fraktur script associated with it. Most Fraktur were created between 1740 and 1860.
- The Pennsylvania Dutch Pennsylvanisch Deitsche also referred to as Pennsylvania Germans, are an ethnic group in Pennsylvania and other regions of the United States, predominantly in the Mid-Atlantic region of the nation. They largely descend from the Palatinate region of Germany, and settled in Pennsylvania during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. While most were from the Palatinate region of Germany, a lesser number were from other German-speaking areas of Germany and Europe, including Baden-Württemberg, Hesse, Saxony, and Rhineland in Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the Alsace–Lorraine region of France.
- The Pennsylvania Dutch spoke Palatine German and other South German dialects, intermixing of Palatine, English, and other German dialects, which formed the Pennsylvania Dutch language as it is spoken today.
The Pennsylvania Dutch name has caused confusion. People couldn't pronounce Deutsch and it became "Dutch"- associating the people with the Dutch, rather than Germany.
"You've Got To Be Carefully Taught" - SOUTH PACIFIC (1958)
South Pacific received scrutiny for its commentary regarding relationships between different races and ethnic groups. In particular, "You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught" was subject to widespread criticism, judged by some to be too controversial or downright inappropriate for the musical stage. Sung by the character Lieutenant Cable, the song is preceded by a line saying racism is "not born in you! It happens after you’re born..."
Rodgers and Hammerstein risked the entire South Pacific venture to include the song in the production. After the show's debut, it faced legislative challenges regarding its decency and supposed Communist agenda. While the show was on a tour of the Southern United States, lawmakers in Georgia introduced a bill outlawing entertainment containing "an underlying philosophy inspired by Moscow." One legislator said that "a song justifying interracial marriage was implicitly a threat to the American way of life." Rodgers and Hammerstein defended their work resolutely. James Michener, upon whose stories South Pacific was based, recalled, "The authors replied stubbornly that this number represented why they had wanted to do this play, and that even if it meant the failure of the production, it was going to stay in." — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%27ve_Got_to_Be_Carefully_Taught
#music #film #musical #southpacific #racism #rodgershammerstein #usa #history
