Remember: Just because an idea is old doesn't mean it's good.
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Then again, when underlying conditions don't change much, tried-and-true approaches are probably better.
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"Learning the lessons of history" usually just means assuming ergodicity and stationarity in an informal time-series model... (end)
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Wow, Noah’s really coming after birthright citizenship hard today. Did not expect.
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There also had to be a fairly long period where a bow and arrow was still better than guns too.
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Just wade into the controversial topics and take any old position why doncha?!?
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It's not just the changing landscape, either. Longstanding ideas or methods may lie in relatively shallow local minima, with superior solutions fairly close by
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What you’re saying is true. But somethings are democratic principles. Without them democracy does not exist. Sometimes our constitution defines those democratic principles, sometimes they are found in deliberations of the law.
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*suddenly experiences PTSD from memories of fighting Parthia in Rome Total War*
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Accurate guns. I believe the Mongols had cannons for siege warfare
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that is true, if by suddenly you mean: over the course of 1000 years
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are you subtweeting capitalism?
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