It's too bad virtues are no longer really talked about. In my grandmother's day they still were. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_virtue …
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Replying to @HbdNrx
I read about Genghis Khan's slaughter of his opponents and was generally thinking about how brutal life was for so many people back then.
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Replying to @HbdNrx
Euro civilization advanced partly because values like tolerance and anti-clannishness rose over time, allowing econ development & innovation
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@amerika_blog the warring of small clans has to be suppressed for econ development,and it's even more effective if it's bred into the people1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @HbdNrx
@amerika_blog in other words, valuing competence over identity was at the time a progressive value2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@amerika_blog I think you're defining terms differently, but it's not a coincidence that Europe became both the most dominant and most prog2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@amerika_blog problem is that prog was taken too far and that times have changed such that progressivism is much more detrimental now1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@amerika_blog maybe. I think we need to define terms if we really want to delve into this.
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