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Southern Colonial. Mostly history, some linguistics & literature. Threads in 'Highlights'.
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Short thread on life of the Tasmanian Aborigines prior to European arrival - the most isolated & primitive human society that has ever existed. Excerpts from Edgerton's "Sick Socie...
Thread w/excerpts of Israel Shahak's "Jewish History, Jewish Religion". Shahak was an award-winning organic chemist & Classical Liberal. Born in Poland, his family moved to Israel...
Thread w/excerpts from Zubok's "Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union". The author believe's the USSR's dissolution was not inevitable, & US pressure had little to do with it. Rer...
Thread w/excerpts of "The Decline of Medieval Hellenism in Asia Minor". On the Turkish conquest & cultural transformation of Anatolia, Byzantium's former heartland. This process c...
Book excerpt 🧵on the Islamisation of the Javanese, the de-facto ruling race of Indonesia & nearly half its population. Over the 20thC Java went from a fundamentally pagan/Vedic soc...
Pt. 2 of Stove's review of Jaynes' theory of the Bicameral Mind. Very trenchant point on the total absence of intellectual reasoning in how people arrive at religious belief. Yet "...
Thread w/excerpts reviewing one of my favourite non-fiction books ever, J. Jayne's "Origins of Consciousness.." by David Stove. Jaynes posited that human consciousness & internal m...