What is Your Favorite Period of History and Why?

[Speaker to Animals]

Well that’s true, I’d be getting some occasional entertainment from sinners being tortured to death, and burned at a stake if I had wrongthink. Enticing.

Again: Your understanding of medieval Europe is lacking. It's a mythical world constructed by atheists that has little to do with historical reality.

I appreciate you correcting the record. I can definitely see your point now.

You are completely uninterested in the truth and just proceed to post nonsense in a history thread that is not historically accurate. You think China was some wonderful "stable" place to live and Europe was just a lot of people torturing each other and setting each other on fire all the time.

I cannot even wrap my mind around how much wrong you embrace. It's like you are trying to be wrong all the time.

[heydaralon]

I have a personal theory that one of the reasons that Asia had an especially merciless form of Communism is because Confucianism and other Oriental belief systems that de-emphasized the individual paved the way for centuries. Granted, Russia also had a barbarous 20th century, but in many ways their culture is utterly alien to Western culture. This should not take away from the fact that Marxism is a distinctly Western post-Enlightenment Idea, but it didn't take full form in England or Germany (not that they didn't get hit hard with Nazism) the way he initially thought they would. It took its most resilient forms in the backward shitholes of the world, and part of the reason I believe this was able to happen was because their cultures partially aligned with it. I could be wrong about this, but it is a hunch I have.

Russia caught the virus first, but it has not maintained it. Contrast that to North Korea, where Stalinism is alive and well, and China, where a sort of hybrid Marxist/Capitalism is still going strong. Laos and Vietnam are still communist I believe, though it may be in name only.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Again: Your understanding of medieval Europe is lacking. It's a mythical world constructed by atheists that has little to do with historical reality.

I appreciate you correcting the record. I can definitely see your point now.

You are completely uninterested in the truth and just proceed to post nonsense in a history thread that is not historically accurate. You think China was some wonderful "stable" place to live and Europe was just a lot of people torturing each other and setting each other on fire all the time.

I cannot even wrap my mind around how much wrong you embrace. It's like you are trying to be wrong all the time.

I can only apologize and beg forgiveness for my wrongthink. Please see fit to correct my answer to your liking.

[C-Mag]

What medieval civilization would you most want to live in if you had to? I'd probably go with England, but it wouldn't be a picnic there.

Chinese/Japanese, probably. Pretty stable places to live.

Maybe American, but you’d have to pick the right tribe. I’m guessing the Sioux probably had it best of any of them.

Pre-Columbian North America was filled with constant wars, raids, famine, slavery and mutilations. It was an ugly struggle for survival.

[SuburbanFarmer]

What medieval civilization would you most want to live in if you had to? I'd probably go with England, but it wouldn't be a picnic there.

Chinese/Japanese, probably. Pretty stable places to live.

Maybe American, but you’d have to pick the right tribe. I’m guessing the Sioux probably had it best of any of them.

Pre-Columbian North America was filled with constant wars, raids, famine, slavery and mutilations. It was an ugly struggle for survival.

Doesn’t sound all that terrible, given absolute personal freedom, and a close-knit tribe.

[heydaralon]

Indians were tough bastards, as evidenced by our multi century struggle to pacify North America. They didn't get that way by being these peaceful one world nature types that our movies often portray them as. They fought brutal wars with eachother constantly and did some heinous shit. However, I think it would be cool to be in a tribe before the White man showed up. You could hunt buffaloes, live off the land, perform raids, and you lived in a small community, where everyone knew exactly what their role was. I think SF's choice on Native Americans is a good one. I am viewing them with rose colored glasses of course, but I think there were some pretty based tribes.

[C-Mag]

Again: Your understanding of medieval Europe is lacking. It's a mythical world constructed by atheists that has little to do with historical reality.

The Medieval Papal States between from the 8th to 10th Centuries would have been a great place and time to live. Protection from the Holy Roman Empire, prosperous trade, no wars on you land at all.

[C-Mag]

Pre-Columbian North America was filled with constant wars, raids, famine, slavery and mutilations. It was an ugly struggle for survival.

Doesn’t sound all that terrible, given absolute personal freedom, and a close-knit tribe.

To some extent yes, but almost every single day would be about survival, many tribes routinely ate tree bark for survival. There were probably times during the St Louis period when there was more abundance and less warfare.

The Calusa in Florida were stable and no one fucked with them. They fought the Spanish immediately, and understood from the start they were a real threat.

[TheReal_ND]

Be chinese. Get conscripted. Ok yeah wow feudalism btfo lmao

[SuburbanFarmer]

I recall a number of us calling for universal conscription, because that would be a better way to live or stop wars or something.