What's the best version of "Scholar Society" in history?For example, the medieval scholastic monks or the ancient Chinese philosopher cliques
>>16546795> For example, the medieval scholastic monks or the ancient Chinese philosopher cliquesNeither of those were scholar societies, I’m not sure you understand what you’re asking for.
>>16547499What were they then?
>>16547604The former were asylums for gay sons of the nobility to keep them out of sight. The latter were legit cults on the level of the worse we see today. Neither were real bastions of knowledge or reasoning.
>>16546795Back during the high or late middle ages, if one was well-off enough, they had two main choices. One could become a monk and receive an education enough to become literate, and to even become a theologian or priest, or one could attend one of the early universities of those times, possibly also a route towards a clerical career, but the more secular humanities were gaining traction from the high middle ages into the renaissance era.
>>16547628>Eurocentric
>>16547624>>16547855Seethe
>>16547628It seems everything is just Business orientated now.
>>16547908Mercantilist degeneracy is the curse of long-lived bloodlines.
>>16547912They should be literal Kings but instead they are "Investment Bankers".
>>16547951It’ll be a cold day in hell before I allow a Bonaparte back on the throne
>>16546795Plato’s Academy of course
>>16546795Korean scholars specifically in the 15th century. They had insane level of patronige and power for anyone with understanding of cannon making, gunpowder and agricultural science and the kings such as Sejong and his son Munjong personally butted heads with the royal court to keep them out of aristocratic jealousy. Merit was especially of importance especially when the some slave engineer broke several social conventions and became engineer at court and a freeman and later chief engineer due to his merit.At least at this initial period of the Joseon Dynasty Korean kings were inspired by the foundation philosphy that "States and Majesty must only exist for the common men".
>>16548790Weren’t they just an expy of Chinese scholars?
>>16547860Your biases will die with you and not survive into the new world we’re creating
>>16548790Based 선비
>>16546795>>16548859Scholar-literati officials literally ran China during the Song dynasty and relegated the Emperor to a figurehead
>>16550043You mean the cockless men??
>>16550014Why the dumb hats?
>>16548859Chinese Neo Confucian writers already knew and studied Mencius and had their new schools of thought, most particularly Zhu Xi who already established the foundation of what government ought to do. Koreans didn't have a Zhu Xi and was reintroduced to Mencius 200 years after Zhu Xi. Because of that, how Do Jeon (the founding member) interpreted Mencius became different, particularly because the despotic hellhole ruled by tyrant barons and monks he was born in inspired an incredible unjust sense of the world.TL:DR same origins but different interpretations and focus
RAND Corporationthe CIA (literally) and everything in northern virginiapre-venture capitalism silicon valley, but only the white parts
>>16547908The Brit has a Henry Cavill look to him while the Frank has that Gaston look to him
>>16551485Life imitates Art
>>16551385Those don’t strike me as very scholarly
>>16551367Why do you think those nobles were worse than the others?
>>16547951Why do modern monarchists cuck themselves this badly over rich men?
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>>16555010Explain. You think there is a hundred year gap between a cuck and his progenitor?
>>16555010Russia is a federation not a republic.Switzerland is a confederation not a republic.
>>16555058Odd you speak so confidently with words you do not yourself understand
>>16554224Do Jeon was a descendant of a slave and was treated as such even after he passed the exams. He witnessed the 5 wars (Red Turban invasions, Northern yuan invasions, Kyushu Invasions, Jurchen Invasions, Revolts of the Pro Yuan Barons) of the last three decades of the Goryeo regime and saw the court fall apart. The six wars gave unparalleled private military ownership to the common nobility and they extracted all the wealth out of the peasantry to fund their campaigns although successful; never had any gains from the fact the army returned from their land gains only to fight another enemy. Atleast after Imjin Joseon had a decade of peace goryeo did not have that. It was a saying that peasants prefered pirates murdering them over soldiers starving them because the pain would end.The monks leeched off the left overs and funded their private estates (which is why buddhism was nearly annihilated in Joseon)The once meritous Emperor became mad from the grief of his wife and became a hysteric despot, which execerbated the power of the nobility.The court became a warground between the Traditionalists, the Ming Supporters and the Conquest supporters.Even after Joseon was established, Do jeon himself was killed in an accusation of corruption and it took two more princely revolts to complete annihilate the clannish Goryeo Nobility and usher an age of peace for Sejong to rule over.
>>16555255And even after then the court nobles didnt realise their scope of power. Sejong himself was so outraged by the nature of the nobility one day he trapped the nobles and the Ming Diplomat in the court room, dorned the imperial robes stained by Do Jeons blood and threathened to execute everyone for treason
>>16549275>Your biases will die with you and not survive into the new world we’re creatingMost people aren't going to die in a collapsing "tofu" high rise building in China...Just saying.
>>16555282The reason that’s not going to happen is because your racist propaganda doesn’t reflect reality in China
