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My final undergrad thesis was on the developing relationship between religious-scientific inquiry into the world through the eyes of Kepler and the paradigm shift (to use Kuhn's term) it represented.
Never had the money to blow on grad school for a masters though kek there are still days I wish I could do it all over again. Instead of academia I ended up going into the culinary field and loan-maxing my way through a culinary degree in my late 20's. Now I just read for interest, bouncing between the 1960's, ACW, and the 17th-18th century

>>18050448
2025 and still fall for the Grad School meme. SAD.


I 100% guarantee your very valuable degree will never pay for itself, assuming you use it at all. Whatever it is you're doing, thousands of others are doing it better.

Now, if you borrowed $250k, put it in an Index Fund and made the min. payments, you could start living off the dividends from the get go and/or become a millionaire within 10 years.

Learn to math, Morons ;)

>>18050498
Oh wow, that's really interesting. I don't know anything about the history of science (except for Bergson, a little), but the subject seems fascinating.

And yes, I'm lucky to live in France, where university studies, while not completely free, are still much cheaper than in other countries.

>>18050581
What flyover shithole that just got internet access thanks to the Biden administration are you from?

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>>18050448
Unfortunately I was never a very good student. That limits my scope to contemporary issues in society, but without training I can only contribute where others are for some reason prevented from saying what should be said. In other words, matters of symbolic importance and controversy. The delicate lampshade of public sensitivity covers decayed ideas that in turn command ineffective science, if I can improve the ideas I may have a positive impact despite my position. More than that, it's an externalization of my own desire to understand the world. To that end, I've devoted countless hours to reading and researching on 4chan.org, the great grimoire of contemporary candor, to articulate several problems that are usually dismissed as unknowable private realities. Here's an example of a series of contingent issues that combine into one major intellectual backwater:
>What is reality
>Is there a God
>Is civilization "good"
The answer to one is dependent on the others, and all have profound implications for life. All have been answered by great thinkers, but their methods no longer fit a coherent view of the present, obscurity covers them again. With my 'research' I've been able to restate this "metaphysics of civilization" in a way that's demonstrably true and necessary to understanding the truth.

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>>18051597
>What is reality
By cross comparing perspectives, we can determine that nature is apparently sequential. That rules out any chaotic or insane universe. Reality is either what it appears to be, or a deliberate deception by a higher intelligence that understands humans. There's no evidence for the last option but it's a logically necessary counterfactual to the first option. Words are any signifier of meaning, all equally far removed from true reality, that will henceforth will be used (creating much confusion) to describe reality.
>Is there a God
Yes, because of the above. When I use the words "God is a being who created the universe" your brain is asked to recall something real. Glory and dignity, authority, a lineage of great people going back to the beginning. Your own humility and youngness. You feel, if you will, the everlasting arms of the ones who held you then as now, kept you safe when you were vulnerable. To some, God is a harsh father who gave nothing more than the minimum; all variations are true. The only thing false is a denial of God's existence based on the age of the earth or the size of the universe, or any science, those are semantically flawed arguments. They misunderstand the purpose of religious communication and the limits imposed by mere word.

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>>18051602
>Is civilization "good"
Yes, because of the above. God's existence reminds us that the human endeavor is far greater than any mortal judgment. You were just born so it's arrogant to place yourself above trillions of man-hours of experience that refined the means of self-criticism. A purely secular outlook might declare nothing missing from such a criticism, which is undoubtedly couched in the most favorable words, but to acknowledge the divine is to admit one's own relative weakness as a small and new subset. To correctly describe civilization one must admit that it is great, much like God is great, and good the same way He is good, as containing all good and all meaning. Criticism, if possible at all, must first admit that much.

This same process and set of priorities can be applied to nearly any issue of confusion today. First I admit QEDs and counterfactuals, then proceed to the role of signifiers and artificial meaning. The real effect of popular and politic "scientific" positions is revealed when signifier and reality are disentangled.

>>18050448
Sources? Where did people make those arguments?

>>18050498
>>18050448
I’m still an undergrad for 4 years and still haven’t decided a thesis topic, how do people settle on one?

>>18051913
stop looking for something that interests you and start on something achievable

>>18051913
>an undergrad for 4 years
What are you trying to ask ESLanon?

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>>18051651
OP here. I had a ton of sources, in french, but it's all in my external drive, somewhere in my mess. I only have a few with me and I found this one (picrel). This is the defense presented by Castelnau, a Protestant nobleman, after the Amboise Conspiracy ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amboise_conspiracy )

I made a translation but it's not very good (sorry) :

>He then spoke of the pride and arrogance of the Guises, who, he said, already acted like sovereigns and wanted to usurp the crown. He added that he and his companions had gathered for the sole purpose of complaining to the King about these odious ministers; that they had taken up arms not against him but against them, and that they believed they had been within their rights to do so.

In this extract, you can find a perfect example of what I was talking about. The armed rebellion is not presented as being against the king, the conspirators do not call themselves revolutionaries (which would be anachronistic; I am only using this term to make myself understood) or rebels. On the contrary, they portray their actions as an example of loyalty to the king, to free him from the control of the Guise family, who were the most powerful Catholic leaders of the time.

>>18051913
I don't know if it works the same way in other countries, but as for me, I first chose my field (modern history), then I talked to my professor about it. He asked me what interested me (I said it was the history of political ideas) and suggested a related topic. It was only after working on it for the first few months that I reformulated the topic and determined its scope.

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>>18050448
I'm applying for my Master's degree here in Brazil about the Catholic Church in a remote valley. It's a region mostly ignored since colonial times that only in the 90s started actually getting developed. Most of this region is still frozen in time.
My focus is on the establishment of the diocese in the 70s, I plan on documenting the process of actually creating something that looks like a diocese.
Honestly I feel like my project is a bit silly and just a curiosity of someone with too much free time and I don't know if they'll accept it.

>>18052028
Dude, that actually sounds awesome. That’s legit anthropology, it’s not “silly”. Yeah it’s kind of niche but that's the beauty of it: if you don't do it, who will?

Not a lot of researchers in here, hey?

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>>18050448
Undergrad research paper is on Early Roman Comedy and adapting Greek models. I wanted to do something on Early Roman literature as a whole and the survival of Early Republican traditions in it and where we find Greek influence, but I'm just not able to deal with fragments in a way to construct such an argument, and to be quite honest I don't think it's a question that could possibly be answered with 3rd century texts. Instead my supervisor suggested I look into Plautus and Greek adaptation.

My tl;dr of the research is that Plautus is a very self aware writer, and very willing to engage with the audience directly, unlike Menander and older Greek Comedy who never address the audience directly outside of the divine prologue, which is still plausibly in the world of the play. Plautus has a sort of expectation that people have watched New Comedy as he takes the tropes from New Comedy, and then states them outright in the play as to subvert or mock it for the audience to get a laugh.

I've dealt with more history than literature of the ancient world, so this is a bit off what I'm used to doing. It has been very interesting and fun though. Tracing early forms of Comedy to the Plautine form was interesting as well. I think if I was to research anything again to a scale like this (or larger) I'd do something on non-Roman Roman citizens in Late Antiquity, or the vassals and independent power structures in the Roman East in Late Antiquity.

>>18050448
I stopped at having an MA in History (thesis was on comparative colonialisms between American Philippines and British Malaya) as I feel heading to PHD would leave me brainletted in world history in general.

>>18053004
It's not that. People are conditioned to know this thread isn't going anywhere, user generated threads rarely do. This site is propped up by engagement farming bots who bump you off the board.

I'm currently studying history at my local university in Sweden. Probably gonna tailor a PhD on mixing history with international relations

>>18050448
Personal research because I'm not in the academy, but I'm currently focusing on the origins of the idea of "capitalism", which kind of leads to a broad set of other issues. I went into it being more interested in what work the word does for people in understanding their own political order, less in the sense of trying to "figure out what capitalism is". Really, the fact that there are so many books that try to do that made me more skeptical that the word primarily describes something real, but instead is more a point of ideological struggle between competing stories about what underlies political legitimacy.

Incidentally though, I know someone who studied England a lot more and specifically did some studying on how "Divine Right" was used in the reign of James Stuart. He is convinced that Divine Right is a very particular term deployed by James and his supporters, and that people conflate it with previous instances of simply associating kingship with the grace of God. Which is to say, he thinks what James was doing when making a direct appeal to a "Divine Right" was grounding his claim of legitimacy in a de-facto right of possession, because he didn't have the strongest claim to the throne by descent and he didn't want to give sway to arguments that he had right to the throne by the ascent of his subjects or inferiors. So he was basically arguing that his "Divine Right" was won by seizing the throne. What was at stake was who had the standing to question Stuart's right to remain king, and he was suggesting only God could question it, which is obviously to say nobody can.

>>18050448
>just personal study.
I have a JD, but my personal project is to create a complete three volume work fully and completely recounting my family and in-law’s genealogy. I’ve been years into studying genealogy at this point and want to finalize it all it a set of works that can be passed down through the generations.

>>18053168
My grandmother somewhat recently revealed to me that we had a guy in our family in the early 20th century that wrote a family genealogy. I'm pretty sure he was just a WASPy crank because he ultimately tried to claim we had a direct ancestor to the Mayflower. Incidentally, my family is not rich and has no particular history of wealth, so it is kind of funny that this guy was pulling the classic WASP move of trying to say we had a direct Mayflower ancestor.

>>18053176
Anon, lots of people go back to the first ships. I do, it's not an aristocratic thing. A few of those guys just ended up with zillions of descendants

>>18053176
Genealogy is very fraught with fraud. You have to be careful and consider the actual evidence as it is. I’ve been fooled by lies and hopeful thinking before, and I’ve had to delete whole sections of my family tree. It takes experience and historical knowledge to know when it doesn’t make sense. Then there’s stuff like family tradition that can’t be proven. There are often probable claims that just can’t be 100% proven. Then this kind of research is always biased because it’s about yourself. But stuff like a Mayflower connection is pretty common, you just always need to check the sources. Researching nowadays, there are lots of easily accessible resources, with sources given that you can look at yourself, that also vet claims of noble or Mayflower ancestry. One of the reasons I’ve divided my project into three volumes is so that one volume can weigh the evidence of plausible but unproven claims.

>>18050448
>Conclusion: not really. The Divine Right remained universally accepted, and even when the king was criticized, his legitimacy wasn’t.
It's funny how quickly that change though.
My own MA thesis was about legitimacy in the english civil war (from the subjects' perspective), and by that point multiple voices had emerged making much more pragmatic arguments: for every Filmer instisting with de jure divine right there was an Ascham espousing pure de facto power.
It is indeed a very interesting subject.

I did my bachelor thesis on Gender Identity in Minoan Civilization. I did this to get into Oxbridge for my graduate studies. Basically I wrote about the development of men and women their roles during the entire civilization using archaeology

>>18050448
salut
my thesis was on the development of EU regulation on e-commerce and it's conflict with general EU consumer protections (Directive 2011/83/EU).
there is a conflix of interpretation in that older specialized text conflict with newer general texts. so you can't just fere to lex posterior derogat legi priori (new law negates old law) and lex specialis derogat legi generali (specific legislation negates generalist legislation).
this due to older telecommunication commerce laws limiting some protections included in the consumer protections directive.
the later laws fail to both in the legislative works it's self of in it's preparative works to give a clear hierarchy of sources. As such there currently exists a limbo that at the time of me having written my thesis hadn't been addressed by the courts.
despite this conflict and thus the limbo is quite small and not an issue to most everyday consumers.

my apologies for any mistakes I've made against English legal vocabulary. I haven't used it professionally and wrote my thesis over a decade ago.

>>18050448
Autodidact genius here, I'm researching how the 'genocide' and atrocities committed by king Leopold and the congo free state are all fake slander

>>18053304
what's the conflict?
>>18053319
>that third level of irony
u mad

>>18053319
a) the estimates for the total population of the Congo free state is lower than the number claimed killed
b) rubber only grew in about 1/3 of the Congo free state
c) the area where it grew had on average lower population density then other parts of the free state
d) genocide requires intent, the only intent was to rubber max
e) the free state lacked the administrative and enforcement capacity to carry out the atrocities at the alleged scale
f) Leopold was very hands of in his management of his colonial possession
g) in none of his or his subordinates letters diaries ect. mention anything approaching genocidal intent. the only mentions of removing hands is in the context of proof of proper expenditure of munition in the force publique.

and my personal favourite
h) it's the congolese have you seen what they do to each others?

>>18053326
mainly about the classification of contracts and several other minor issues.
the classification of the contracts isn't a major issue since the protections offered across the differing classifications is broadly similar.
i.e. if it's lease instead of sale you still have the same rights and means to get recourse
all of which is now completely out of date anyways

>>18053339
as someone in the field do you like EU style regulation of industry or would you prefer american?

>>18053332
Yeah all this is true and much more, the entire thing was invented by British business interests. John Holt secretly paid Edmund Morel under the table to slander the congo free state because it hurt Holt's chief rival Alfred Jones who had a monopoly contract with Leopold. At the time they weren't even complaining about violence against the natives, but rather monopolistic trading agreements. All the crap about cutting off hands was completely made up, the Congo Reform Association (funded by Holt) just took a handful of photos of Africans who lost their hands in accidents or to disease and paid them to lie about it being Force Publique soldiers, then showed the ~12 photos to normies and pretended it happened all the time so the normies got really upset. The alleged death toll is also unbelievably retarded because we have zero population data on the territory for the entire period and didn't get an accurate and comprehensive census until like the 1949 iirc. The 10 million figure on Wikipedia references King Leopold's Ghost, and if you read that the only source Hochschild has is the foreword of Rood Rubber in which the historian Jan Vansina throws the number out there with zero evidence or methodology. Hochschild even makes up a fake quote about Vansina's supposed methodology which didn't actually exist. Vansina later investigated the subject himself in his 2010 work Being Colonized and came to the opposite conclusion of Hochschild & co.

Anyway there is way too much content for me to summarize here. I have a 20,000 word script on the subject atm, probably gonna make it a youtube video

>>18053349
this has huge implications. can his heirs still reclaim possession?

>>18053357
Who would want a giant jungle filled with 110 million nigs? I can't imagine anything worse personally, the more primary sources you read about subsaharan africans the more you realize they are completely irredeemable and despicable. All they want to do is kill and eat each other.

>>18053366
You said Vansina had the opposite conclusion though, what does that mean? He debunked himself? Seems there is no physical evidence for 110 million africans.

>>18053371
Basically vansina was asked to write the foreword of Rood Rubber, and in it he mentioned a potential death toll of 10 million because at that time (1985) there were some decolonial academics in the Africa studies departments of Belgian and Dutch universities who had theorized this. Vansina hadn't personally researched the subject, and it was not a serious academic claim he was making, yet this was Hochschild's only reference. Later, in 2010, Vansina did some population analysis of the Kuba people, who lived in the Kasai region which was a major rubber producing region. I can't distill his extremely detailed and nuanced research down into a a 4chan post (you can find a PDF of the book online if you're interested) but basically his conclusion was that the methodology of genocide-theorists like Hochschild were based on faulty (or dishonest) calculations, and that while the population did fluctuate during the period, this was almost entirely due to disease and was completely normal in the region.

The 110 million figure I referenced is the current DRC population, I'm certain the king of Belgium does NOT want to deal with that hellhole.

>>18053394
Amazing stuff. From 10 million to no large scale violence at all, that's quite a revision. It makes you wonder what other major historical events have been exaggerated or invented.

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>>18053410
Yes, well the 10 million claim has never really been taken seriously in most history departments, the problem is any retard can make a pop history infographic like this one and go viral and that just becomes the truth to hundreds of millions of credulous normies. Actual data, sources, and research don't matter.

>>18053425
One can use AI to do just about anything nowadays. We really should be celebrating leopold for running such a large and safe rubber operation, providing a large army of untrained security forces that nonetheless didn't harm people.

Wow, I didn't think that by creating this thread I would attract the racist negationists from /his/. I guess even just asking a question about people's research is too much to ask of 4chan.

>>18053560
It's very dreary. I haven't been here in years now and I don't know what else I expected.

>>18053560
at least it got a reply out of you. maybe he was just bored

>>18053560
>makes research thread
>gets upset when "controversial" research using very high level sources is discussed
It's a good thing you aren't in academia anymore. Weren't you taught that history is and should be under constant revision?

The academy is the greatest enemy of knowledge

>>18053560
if you think it's bullshit where's the mistake? It's a puzzlel, a brain teaser.

>>18050448
I'm not an academic but I would like to research and write history essays as a pastime. How do you find inspiration for topics? And how you find good sources?

>>18053686
OP here.
Honestly, topics usually come from reading. When you’re reading a history book (or anything academic, really), you often come across a passage and think, “oh, that’s interesting, too bad the author didn’t go deeper into it.” Sometimes the author even mentions areas that still need more research.
Another good way is to talk with academics, professors, researchers, grad students, they generally have a good sense of what’s already been explored and where the “gaps” in knowledge are.

As for sources, again, books are the best place to start. Academic works always include sections listing the sources and a bibliography: those are goldmines. From there, depending on your topic, you can find primary sources online (if they’ve been digitized), or in public archives, university or municipal libraries, and sometimes even private collections.

If you're in Europe, I can recommend some useful websites. Elsewhere in the world, unfortunately, I'm afraid I don't know anything about it.

>>18051913
See >>18051914. It's not your magnum opus. It's not for a PhD. It's probably not even something that anyone will ever read again after it's been found sufficient. It's just a couple dozen pages of work that two or three members of faculty have to consider passable. After that it goes straight into the institutional repository, never to be seen again. I'm pretty sure if you ask your institution's IT guys, they'll say that most papers in their repository have been accessed between 0 and 3 times, and in the latter case that's friends and family.

So stop postponing it. Read up on something you know a thing or two about, find something you think important that isn't mentioned in enough detail by existing authors and get on it. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

>>18050718
Well, >>18050581 is not wrong. If you get an MA, you're either going to be a high school teacher or right back to where you were at 18 except several years older and tens of thousands in debt. There are PhD tracks that lead to tenure, but those are few and far between, and typically inaccessible if you're a white guy, because institutions have a lot of competition over limited resources and will always prefer to invest in black/brown/female PhD candidates.

>>18053746
>tens of thousands in debt
You do realize that not everyone lives in [spoiler]that third-world country that is[/spoiler] the United States, right?

>>18053686
>And how you find good sources?
If you have zero background on a topic, unironically wiki.
The academic sources (not the websites or news articles) on a topic's page will make for a decent foundation, and you use the sources listed on those sources to further spread out. You'll quickly have more material than you need.
For very specific stuff, you do a search on the main databases and just scroll down picking the ones that look promising.
Also maybe not that useful for amateurs, but daily chatting with your fellows can be a massive boon in dfinding obscure sources: it was very common for a discussion about theses with another student to result in both of us finding new material to peruse.

>>18053768
In which case you're "just" down several of your prime years.

I did a research project for a degree a little while back on the role of eschatology in late Roman political thought.

>>18053971
like pagan bureaucracy where you can't bulldoze a building because it's from a sacred ancestor?

>>18053971
Was it during the christian times of Rome? I studied late medieval-early modern eschatology, but never the antique one. Must be very interesting!

>>18053998
Pretty much
>>18054014
Yes, it was during Christian Rome. The tension between Pagans and Christians is very interesting, pagans clinging to cyclical sacred places, Christians pushing a new eschatological vision that relativized old sacred spaces.

Everything exists on two levels, the signifier and the signified. Everything I can control is a signifier, and that includes anything

physical .
There may be few decisions available in a given moment, but planning makes free will scale with time instead of being limited to 5 second increments, like most living things are. Most life, you're there - you're doing something - you're somewhere else. Memories and instincts are just a plus. Human free will on the other hand, allows "responsible life choices" that plot a track. Thus any action is part of the powers of

signification ,
the mind's output imagining the world. Every mind makes a facsimile of reality. This is sign making, even when it's internal. The mind's purpose is to translate a detailed distant reality into coherence, which is only possible through radical abstraction. Forget touching the divine, it doesn't make sense to directly interface with most things. Instead symbols and imagination held in physical people are the currency of so-called

knowledge .
Given the universe is greater than the individual, true knowledge is proportional to age -- experience. I'd say rocks are the most knowing, trees much more so than people, just imagine basking in God's light for eternity. Life is ultimately a form of beautiful decay. But I

digress . . .
To sum up progress, all minds and actions are signification explicitly. The underlying reality of them is sublimated to the process of creating and applying worldviews, even the physical humanity which can be planned. The

problem
created, is how different the signified world really is. It's built on abstraction thus the rules of reality don't apply. Leaps of understanding and also complete insanity become possible, when neither is the reality of the outside world. Reality is experienced through infinitely varied, often highly magical perspectives, who contribute no less to humanity. That inescapable history is what causes confusion between signifier and signified.

>>18054657
>The tension between Pagans and Christians is very interesting
I can imagine. In France, we have Paul Veyne who wrote on this a lot. I read "Quand notre monde est devenu chrétien (312 - 394)" (When our world became Christian) like 15 years ago, it was very interresting. I also remember working on Hypatia of Alexandria a long time ago, and that she was a pagan murdered by a christian group.

But I don't know anything about eschatology specificaly, it's a fascinating topic

>>18054657
That sounds amazing. How do you tell people their gods and their ancestor cults are no longer real? Just physically harm anyone who does it?

>>18054866
nta but I did some research on this. It’s largely an ‘out of sight out of mind’ approach. Officals were generally fine with it as long as they practiced behind closed doors. People who were powerful enough tended to get away with it. Senators like Symmachus still practiced with the state cult, although he bemoans that people aren’t joining in on meetings as often. Their issue is that the state wasn’t funding the state cults, and without funding the existence of a state cult was pointless. There’s also changing trends in pagan worship which was already making this push to put it behind closed doors more acceptable to pagans. For example public sacrifice in the 4th century was just no longer that popular, with Julian being seen as excessive when he did so. Most worship didn’t occur in temples either but instead other spaces. So when sacrificing in temples was outlawed it was not too hard in them.

>>18054934
I'd imagine Julian did it on purpose. It's interesting to think religion was little more than a regulation in a world that had yet to differentiate between secular and theocracy

>>18053560
Lol, so its fine for a far left Jew like Hochschild (civil rights activist, anti apartheid activist, co founded Mother Jones, worked at Ramparts which bailed out and employed Eldridge Cleaver after he admitted hunting and raping white women on purpose to get revenge on whites, said trump is a modern fascist with connections to the kkk and "endorsed QAnon which is fundamentally just the antisemitic "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" updated for today) dedicates his entire life to writing books about how evil white people cruelly murdered and enslaved countless nonwhites for no reason other than heinous racial prejudice and self interest, but if a chud like me actually reads his book, fact checks all the sources, and points out unambiguous lies, doctored quotes, and misrepresentations which all coincidentally make European colonists look as evil as possible that's suddenly a big problem and 'racist negationism'? Give me a break.

>>18050581
You need a master's for any decent white collar work.
It pays once you get into management, so make sure you eventually do.
You could just fuck off and invest, but it's much easier when you have an income, consider it a way of differentiating your investments, on yourself AND on the market

>>18055013
If he was talking about Trump in the late 19th century he's a genius and you need to sit down.

>>18053721
Thanks for the answer, OP. I'm in Europe so I would welcome those websites. I already read academic books but I never paid attention to the bibliographies because they seem daunting.

>>18053878
Interesting. I consult wikipedia from time to time for very basic summaries, especially when some authors mention something I wasn't familiar with.
What are those databases?

>>18056525
>What are those databases?
The foremost is jstor, but google scholar is right on its heels.
Academia.edu and researchgate are also decent, but they're a couple tiers below at minimum.
And remember that if a jstor article is gated behind a paywall just knowing it exists allows you to search it elsewhere.

>>18050448
>Both Protestants and Catholics
not real. End this social construct retardation now.

>>18056815
Wym

>>18054866
I've heard there were a lot of cases of Christians trashing Pagan ceremonies in the Roman Empire.

>>18050581
You're retarded. Enjoy being poor.

>>18057079
sounds like a good way to get stabbed. for some reason it makes me think of jeets vs. muslims in India

I would love to go back to uni and do a PhD like my father (I already have a non-research Masters) but I have a mortgage and children, I don't know how I could go to working part-time for 6 or more years. My academic background is in Laws but my passion is in theology and medical culture and there are lots of intersections to examine there, though I've never been able to identify one worthy of a full doctorate.

>>18053346
I haven't studied US regulation since I got my masters at a European uni.
my opinion of EU regulation is that it is in general quite good. that is as long as it isn't political and they just let the eurocrats hammer things out.
both EU and US regulation are to wide and deep to fully understand never mind compare. and you'll need a legal expert to advise you regardless of if you are subject to US or EU regulation
>>18053357
Leopold sold the Congo to the Belgian state to cover some of his debts. this was done via law that still regulates ( a small)part of the public funding for the royal family.
It was the Belgian state's when they gave it away and there's no recourse to be had in any way. not that frankly the royal family or the belgian state would want it back. the congo was always a money sink for the state and the few families that got rich off of the congo did their level best to abuse the taw system as hard as they possibly could
>>18053425
>Yes, well the 10 million claim has never really been taken seriously in most history departments
I knew a few history departments in belgium take it very serious. they see it as their inherited sin and so they can't be lefty enough to atone for it. the local version of the holocaust

>>18050448
Not quite there (getting my BA in world history for now) but one of my goals is to produce an intellectual/cultural genealogy that led to the recent phenomena of the male virginity crisis. It will get me yelled at possibly but I need to drive home a point.

>>18058552
It was a joke at the expense of the genocide rhetorician