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has there ever been a worse degeneration than Ancient Greece --> Modern Greece
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:08 PM Author: federal electric stead (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870443) |
Date: April 18th, 2018 8:12 PM Author: Motley locale USA 1919 - 2018
That's less than 100 years. Ours dwarfs Greece's degeneration both in its scale and in its rapidity |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:13 PM Author: federal electric stead let's be real. The US was never particularly cultured, sophisticated, or even literate. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870488) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:16 PM Author: Motley locale US 1919: Temperance movement, largely agrarian, largely illiterate, filled with zealous Christians.
US 2018: Opium epidemic, Global Capitalism rampant, 50 Shades of Grey, filled with zealous trannies |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:23 PM Author: turquoise supple regret affirmative action (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870590) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 9:44 PM Author: aggressive striped hyena US 1919: Women still lacked the right to vote.
US 2018: LJL |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 9:50 PM Author: Motley locale Mfcr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35871085) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 2:58 PM Author: cracking house (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35875787) |
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Date: May 27th, 2018 1:17 PM Author: flatulent range In 1919, white mobs killed scores of blacks in dozens of cities. It was a year in which America went to hell. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#36136006) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:14 PM Author: burgundy cheese-eating legend athletic conference Modern Greeks live closer to the Ancients than we do, buddy. Way closer and no GDP or employment rate got shit to do with it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870500) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:15 PM Author: federal electric stead how so? I'm not disagreeing, but they have like no cultural output so an explanation is necessary (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870511) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:18 PM Author: Motley locale think you're hung up on Greece's relative decline, while he's focused on Greece's absolute level of culture etc. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870540) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:16 PM Author: stimulating wagecucks Egypt has to be worse. At least in modern Greece youre in the EU and can hie to Germany (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870517) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:32 PM Author: Concupiscible pocket flask Yeah I think Egypt wins. Mexico is a strong contender because its precolumbian civilizations >> ancient Egypt, but Mexico today >>>>>> Egypt today. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870635) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:17 PM Author: Red Space Electric Furnace India Mexico
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:39 PM Author: Concupiscible pocket flask Mexico is tough but mostly because it's cultures were totally wiped out, destroyed and lost. It's doing fairly well today and seems to be on the up and up. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870661) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:18 PM Author: Blathering Indian Lodge Spain from the 1400s to today is pretty bad. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870542) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:20 PM Author: narrow-minded spectacular stage cuck (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870560) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 6:33 AM Author: Hyperactive hairraiser french chef (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35872691) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:22 PM Author: naked dun institution can't believe nobody mentioned england yet (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870585) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:34 PM Author: thriller canary address Poor English (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870644) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:25 PM Author: Titillating Wrinkle ITT: a third worlder living on a festering piece of shit convinces himself turds flushed before his were bigger pieces of turd (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870602) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:27 PM Author: federal electric stead lol if you think Korea even belongs in this discussion. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870613) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:28 PM Author: Titillating Wrinkle (guy literally living under feminazi matriarchy with a 75% female obesity rate claiming his country is first world) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870616) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:29 PM Author: federal electric stead I readily admit that America sucks, don't see how it's relevant to the thread though. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870619) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:30 PM Author: Titillating Wrinkle "US 1919: Temperance movement, largely agrarian, largely illiterate, filled with zealous Christians.
US 2018: Opium epidemic, Global Capitalism rampant, 50 Shades of Grey, filled with zealous trannies"
oh u mad? |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:31 PM Author: federal electric stead the 1919 US of illiterate Christian farmers is not any kind of height of civilization, I don't see it as a decline so much as a logical progression. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870626) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:37 PM Author: Titillating Wrinkle lol fair enough (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870654) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 9:51 PM Author: Motley locale Yfwgi (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35871093) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 7:30 AM Author: Flushed godawful market trust fund Your attempts at trolling are increasingly ham handed and desperate. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35872767) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 3:19 PM Author: Motley locale (guy who thinks literacy is a good in and of itself despite countless examples to the contrary) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35875930) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:32 PM Author: appetizing pungent degenerate Zimbabwe (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870634) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:34 PM Author: thriller canary address Ancient Persia —-> modern Persia (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870643) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:36 PM Author: Concupiscible pocket flask Persia still has potential today. They aren't demographicspwned like Egypt and not arabs like modern Egyptians. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870649) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:38 PM Author: Blathering Indian Lodge (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870656) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 7:42 AM Author: glittery cobalt location dysfunction (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35872790) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:37 PM Author: Purple Public Bath International Law Enforcement Agency 50s CA -> 10s CA (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870651) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:40 PM Author: thriller canary address This hurt to read (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870670) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:40 PM Author: cerebral talking double fault Mongols (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870668) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:40 PM Author: Titillating Wrinkle they live through us (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870674) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:42 PM Author: cerebral talking double fault They were barely Asian. The people who today are closest to Mongols at the apex of their empire live in places like Uzbekistan. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870680) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:46 PM Author: Titillating Wrinkle wrong. uzbeks have massive amounts of turkic dna. mongols were always asiatic and the origin of the asiatic race. northern china is the only other group that traces its lineage to Chingis (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870709) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:41 PM Author: boyish magical partner faggotry Dum dums in this thread. The worst of all time is MONGOLIA. From ruling the world from Japan to Europe to being a backwater of herders. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870678) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:46 PM Author: Blathering Indian Lodge Not quite the same. Mongols were just military conquerors. They weren't top artists and scholars the way the Greeks were before their downfall. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870710) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:47 PM Author: federal electric stead (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870715) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:53 PM Author: boyish magical partner faggotry Well if that’s your metric then the answer is obviously Western Europe under the Roman Empire to Western Europe during the dark ages (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870748) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:59 PM Author: Blathering Indian Lodge Western Europe outside Italy was kinda TTT even during the Roman Empire. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870786) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 9:11 PM Author: flirting pozpig jap Read "A World Lit Only by Fire" then report back please. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870843) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 9:19 PM Author: Blathering Indian Lodge That book is shit. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870892) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 9:20 PM Author: boyish magical partner faggotry You’re nuts (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870899) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 9:35 PM Author: Blathering Indian Lodge It's a lazy book Manchester shit out because he had writer's block on The Last Lion. He had no scholarly expertise on the period he was writing about and used almost no primary sources but nevertheless felt confident enough to make ludicrous assertions about a thousand years of history. It's a shitty book. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870980) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 9:42 PM Author: boyish magical partner faggotry Ok try “Britain After Rome” then for a nice dry text on archeological evidence showing how far the brits fell after the fall of Rome (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35871031) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 7:40 AM Author: Blathering Indian Lodge Oh it's no mystery that Western Europe declined post-Rome. It's just that it went from cruddy backwater to cruddier backwater. Roman Britain wasn't some apex of civilization beforehand. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35872786) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:42 PM Author: Aromatic mood What's with this false idea that American farmers used to be illiterate?
Literacy rates are lower now than they were in 1750. |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:47 PM Author: Titillating Wrinkle holy shit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870716) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:44 PM Author: Lake fragrant station multi-billionaire That's not even that severe, tbh. They stopped fucking boys by and large and stopped fighting wars with more powerful foreign powers. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870690) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:44 PM Author: Aromatic mood Portugal is up there. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870695) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:45 PM Author: unhinged mexican orchestra pit UK from 1880s to now
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:46 PM Author: Aromatic mood UK was always a shithole. Now it just also has a muslim mayor which is pretty lulzy. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870706) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 8:59 PM Author: unhinged mexican orchestra pit Nah man they ruled like 20% of earths surface and had 450 million citizens in 1940. By 20 years later, it had lost 90% of that (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870787) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 9:01 PM Author: Aromatic mood "Rule" is a strong word, and that was also back when it was super easy and not very competitive. The past was like the special olympics...even if you were retarded all you had to do was show up to get a medal. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870790) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 7:28 AM Author: Odious crawly background story theatre CR
by the time their power started to seriously wane 80% of the people still lived like absolute shit |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 9:07 PM Author: Cordovan shrine old china to 19th-20th century china was pretty disastrous. power has partially returned but mao really fucked classical chinese tradition. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870812) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 9:08 PM Author: federal electric stead (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870817) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 9:19 PM Author: boyish magical partner faggotry Carthage pre second Punic war to post third Punic war
Mayan empire pre-Spanish invasion to post
Inca Empire same
England pre and post fall of Roman Empire |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 9:25 PM Author: federal electric stead carthaginians were never particularly civilized, they were just cutthroat merchants, literally throwing babies into bonfires as sacrifices to the gods of commerce. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870919) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 9:35 PM Author: boyish magical partner faggotry ??? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870973) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 7:23 AM Author: abusive gas station Hardcore history fan by chance? The Punic nightmares series was pretty cool. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35872757) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 9:23 PM Author: excitant thirsty brunch gay wizard Greece is a world power (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35870914) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 2:57 PM Author: cerebral talking double fault Not in the sense that we would want it to be though. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35875783) |
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Date: April 18th, 2018 9:39 PM Author: appetizing pungent degenerate Ur -> Tell el-Muqayyar (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35871008) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 7:28 AM Author: Lake fragrant station multi-billionaire 1999-2019 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35872763) |
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Date: May 27th, 2018 1:58 PM Author: exhilarant center (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#36136192) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 3:00 PM Author: cracking house Republic of Venice went from being an economic powerhouse, cultural center and able to build warships in 1 day to a literal tourist town (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35875800) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 3:21 PM Author: Aromatic mood Winner. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35875941) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 3:20 PM Author: Puce know-it-all abode Paris 1900 to Paris 2018. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#35875933) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 3:39 PM Author: Aphrodisiac Feces School Cafeteria The Greeks are smarter now than they were then. They conned their way into the Eurozone, barely work, don't pay taxes and let everyone else bail them out and fret. The ambitious ones just leave.
2018 Greek: blasting through cigs and black cofffee, dinner at 11pm, take entire summer off, chill on gorgeous islands eating 180 food.
U: alternating between Uber shifts and basement. |
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Date: May 27th, 2018 1:22 PM Author: Vibrant light cruise ship ancient india to modern india simply because india has fallen 100 times more than greece. nothing else comes close |
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Date: May 27th, 2018 1:25 PM Author: low-t irradiated mother Greece, Egypt, Persia, India: what do these countries ALL have in common? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#36136036) |
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Date: May 27th, 2018 1:57 PM Author: Vibrant light cruise ship they all have 180 food? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#36136186) |
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Date: May 27th, 2018 2:01 PM Author: hot kitchen masturbator all invaded and occupied by muslims (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3953273&forum_id=2#36136205) |