So I listen to a lot of podcasts, YouTube videos, and I come across these thoughts that seem interesting, maybe important. Here's some from recently.
We can combat fascism only if we grasp that it rouses and sweeps along broad social masses who have lost the earlier security of their existence and with it often their belief in social order.
A story about Amber Miller
The daughter of a friend came up to her with a rose. She asked
"Is this beautiful?"
"Yes"
Then she puts the rose behind her back.
"Is it still beautiful?"
"Yes"
"You see, beauty is in your mind, not in the rose"
We were soft and those we considered losers were hard.
Olympic athletes are maybe not as fit and strong as people in hunter gatherer times the anthropologists think.
The Assyrians were fuuucked uuup. So like ancient life is kind of brutal short and insecure, but like you could kind of live with the Persians. The Assyrians, you wouldn't like them when they're angry.
Ruled by fear then "Up and down like the Assyrian Empire." The Persians on the other hand are basically still around due to as you point out an historically fairly tolerant approach, though also a lot to do with their administrative skills being co-opted by later invaders.
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