Roland: Using books from the library and having a few dozen references means automatic high marks at uni now because it is so rare.
Alrenous: However, 32 years later, in 1820, Australia’s European population still consisted of 84% of convicts and former convicts, and convict transport from Britain to Australia did not cease until 1868Tendentious. Australian population in 1868 was 1.5 million, and total convicts transported topped out at 167 thousand. The reason it could be 80% convict in 1820 was because the population was 34 thousand. Of note, the usual proportion of criminal families in European populations is ~10%.
Harry Jones: Ray Bradbury predicted this. His solution: memorize the books and head for the hills. It won’t scale. But nice try. Only copyright laws stop us from taking matters into our own hands. No one can control a decentralized digital archive. No one can censor sneakernet.
Graham: Such thoughts make it easier for me to contemplate my own eventual mortality, easier to stomach my civilization’s ongoing mortality, and easier yet to relish “their” ‘civilization̶ 1;s deserved mortality.
Kirk: The more frightening thing is what’s happened to all the works that the libraries have “de-accessioned 221;. It would be one thing if they’d have scanned and digitized them before sending all that stuff off to be pulped, but they mostly… Didn’t. Library science was one of the first targets for the Gramscians, and it shows. The whole thing is sickening–The cultural memory hole these assholes have created is stunning in it’s depth and depravity. I went...
Harry Jones: Everyone who bothers to write has an agenda, and the agenda isn’t necessarily to get the facts right. Poorly researched books are mainly a problem because some people believe everything they read. No, I haven’t researched this. It’s just my impression. I generally suspend disbelief even when reading nonfiction titles. Think of a pundit’s books as extended op-eds and enjoy them as such. Diamond, Taleb, Gladwell, Peterson… they make me think, but I’ll never...
Graham: Yes. I left Toronto in 1997 and have had many hundreds of books in a document storage place there for 22 years. Refuse to let go at least until I can ship them up and go through them to look for survivals. I remember a few specific books I want. I’ve also got right now books in boxes packed in a 2003 move and books packed in 2012. All, Allah willing, are about to move again. It’s a disease. But sometimes I think of it as my little war against the circumstances of my life. Surrender is...
Harry Jones: I went through a phase of trolling used bookstores for political science and history. Found some good stuff. Not willing to cart all that about when I moved, I took notes and scanned in the best parts. I’d upload, but… copyright. Life is short and time is precious. This is a hard truth for a bibliophile to accept. You can’t read everything. Not even all the good stuff. You have to prioritize.
Graham: Quite. I’m all in favour of a new Celtic expansionism back into the old homes, although we’d have problems- 1. There is substantial part descent in the peoples currently there. Willing to call them cousins. 2. We need massive increase in Celtic reproductive rates. I’m getting on, but willing to do my part. I’d like Austria and Bohemia and all the old Hallstatt and LaTene homelands back.
Graham: Oh, they are excellent at habituating. Not me, if anything I am slowly working to note the rhetorical tools employed. Nothing I can do about it save be aware. So I’ll still get rolled. But habituate the world and most of the population, sure. Words like fascist, militarist, dictator, tyrant, resistance and so on have all had their meanings either watered down or grossly inflated as needed. Democracy too. The meanings of constitutional government and rule of law are subject to tactical...
Graham: I don’t know what’s available to those with university subscriptions, but out here in the public world nowhere near a significant enough fraction of books in history, political science, anything in related areas, whether recently released or older, seems to be available in common digital formats. Journal articles seem to be better if you have such access or are willing to pay through the nose as a private citizen. I therefore worry that this drive to use only digital source might be...
Sam J.: People voted for Hitler because they had no other choice to change the Jewified country that they had become. It was the only way. They were left with no other options. They could continue on as they were, vote for the Communist, which was also Jewish and had tried to violently take over the government murdering numerous people in the process, or vote for Hitler. The Germans knew about the mass slaughter going on in the Soviet Union, they also knew the Jews were in charge of this and the wanted...
Sam J.: “…Trust me on this… If 9/11 was a government operation, we’d already know about it…” Total bullshit. The Jews did 9-11. There’s NO WAY that building 7 on 9-11 could fall the same speed as a rock dropped in air “unless” it was held up by the same material as the rock. AIR. It’s impossible for this to happen without some sort of demo. The Jews owned the building, the security at the airport the “supposed” hijackers left from, the security...
Sam J.: I’m fascinated with this gun. One thing you didn’t mention was Beeman most probably has the original that Lewis and Clark carried with them. He gave it to the U.S. ARMY WAR COLLEGE. I have a copy of the book Baker, Geoffrey and Colin Currie, 2002. “The Construction and Operation of the Air Gun. Vol. 1. The Austrian Army Repeating Air Rifle.” 64 pp It was pricey for a few pages. It took me a long time to finally get it. I also have “Vol. 2 The Walking Stick Air...
Sam J.: Kirk’s mention of “Technology and Empire” reminded me of two excellent books I read that are on just this sort of thinking in the large about history. William H. McNeill About technology and power. Very good. Don’t miss. “The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000″ About, of course, plagues and the effect on history. “Plagues and Peoples” Both are excellent classics.
Kirk: Y’all might want to make a quick scan over this post over at Powerline Blog… https://www.powerlineblo g.com/archives/2019/06/e mbarrassing-liberals.php I’ve contended that Diamond is full of shiite, and apparently much smarter people than I agree with that assessment. In the comments, there’s a book mentioned that I need to go look up, called Technology and Empire, which may be where Diamond cribbed his notes. I’d also point out another comment that suddenly clarified...
L. C. Rees: If territorial justice reached all the way back to the beginning of history, the Germans would find themselves living on a reservation in southern Sweden. Even the core of today’s Germany was primarily Celtic until a few hundred years before Christ. There’s Grimm speculations that even the word “Germania” is Celtic in origin. German kind’s drive west against the Celts was halted by Caesar and blocked by Rome for the next half millennium. It regained momentum as...
Kirk: Graham, the one thing that ought to give you pause in all that is the question of whether or not they’re actively trying to habituate you to all this, so that you just roll over and let it happen. That’s what the left has been doing, since Gramsci. Everywhere you look, it’s predictable as hell: Their opponents are all Hitler, which is ironic as hell since Hitler was one of them. They’ve pushed the lies for so long and so hard that everyone automatically accepts that lie...
Graham: I’m mostly not following all that. Even at one country’s remove, it still affects me and I know it but it’s far too eventful and tiresome to keep up with. At any rate, around here all this stuff is routinely and cavalierly dismissed as meaningless, just as any version of Trump’s malfeasance is as easily and uncritically accepted. Sometimes one just has to tune out the surroundings unless willing to listen to the other side’s rant about how their conspiracy is true....
Kirk: Yeah, here’s a news flash for you… Nobody in the US government is actually that competent. Look at the sh*tshow we have going on around us, right now, with regards to the attempted coup on Trump. Trust me on this… If 9/11 was a government operation, we’d already know about it. The incompetents like Strzok and his girlfriend would have been running it, and they’d have left the same kind of evidence behind, in the form of cutesy-poo little messages to each other over...
