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I love you Anna's Archive <3 thank you for all the books

Will SciHub ever allow uploads again?
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>>24713954
Yeah, same. I already have everything i'm interested in reading in my lifetime. It must suck dick for anyone that won't be able to figure it out once its all gone.
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>>24716032
Kike hands typed this.
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>>24716032
How do you figure? There mentions of copyright laws and the internet in your book of worship of choice?
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Is it worth getting an external hard drive for ebooks and pdfs or is that retarded
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>>24717709
Only if you intend to hoard rare scanned books or something. Pictures take a lot of room, but text files not so much. To give you an idea my library is a few MBs shy of 10GB and I have 2600 books.

Sorcery, Wizardry, Witchcraft, Psionics, and General Magic and Powers Edition

FAQ:
>What is worldbuilding?
Worldbuilding is the process of creating entire fictional worlds from scratch, all while considering the logistics of these worlds to make them as believable as possible. Worldbuilding asks questions about the setting of a world, and then answers them, often in great detail. Most people use it as a means of creating a setting or the scenery for a story.
>"Isn't there a Worldbuilding general in >>>/tg/ already?"
Yes, there is. However, that general is focused on the creation of fictional worlds for the intended purpose of playing TTRPG campaigns. Here you can discuss worldbuilding projects that are not meant to be used for a roleplaying setting, but for novels, videogames, or any other kind of creative project.
>"Can I discuss the setting of my campaign here, though?"
If you want to, but it would probably be better to discuss it on >>>/tg/ . We don't allow the discussion of TTRPG mechanics, however. If you want to discuss stats or which D&D edition is best, this is not the place.
>"Can I talk about an existing fictional setting that is not mine?"
Yes, of course you can!
>"Does worldbuilding need to be about fantasy and elves?"
Worldbuilding, as already stated above, and contrary to what many believe, does not inherently imply blatantly copying Tolkien. In fact, there are many science-fiction setting out there, and even entire alternative history settings which do not possess supernatural elements at all. Any kind of science fiction book has an implied setting at least, which involves a certain degree of worldbuilding put into it.

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Any examples of worldbuilding with platonic, neoplatonic, even Hermetic themes? It seems like most genre fiction these days is modernist atheistic, or some variety of gnostic.
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>>24716389
>It seems like most genre fiction these days is modernist atheistic, or some variety of gnostic.
Please elaborate on this.
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>>24715989
>Okay, so how would you add other abilities to the different elements then?
Of the top of my head: Highly proficient benders can turn their bodies on their own element
Earthfags can sense people through the vibrations on the ground, travel through the ground without being crushed by the pressure, create earthquakes
Waterfags gain an immense speed boost underwater, can breathe underwater, travel the deep ocean without being crush by the pressure
Firefags are immune to extreme temperatures, have thermal vision and can create heat related mirages
Windfags don't need to breathe at all, can fly, can modify atmospheric pressure on a small area
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>>24717395
>Earthfags can travel through the ground without being crushed by the pressure.
horrifying
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>>24716036
>Can you honestly say you can think of any other time a elemental magic system was done even slightly well besides ATLA that wasn't just thinly flavored game mechanics for a more complicated system of rock paper scissors for strengths and weakness?
Have you ever heard of the webcomic Aurora?

>>24716047
>Meaning > matter. So like powerful curses that take time,
I'd love to hear more about this concept, just how much time would you think it should take for stuff, and what about things that each element can be used for besides manipulation of the physical element itself? Like, maybe fire magic can enflame emotions?

>>24717395
Neat ideas! What about elements beyond those four, like Light or Darkness (besides obvious shit like being able to see in the dark for the latter)?

>>24717450
I'm getting claustrophobia just looking at this! The Hell?

Torch Edition

Stubbed >>24709839

>What is /wng/ — Web Novel General?
A general for readers and authors involved or interested in the growing phenomenon of 'web novels', serialized English fiction posted to websites such as: Royal Road, Webnovel, Scribblehub, Wattpad, Archive of Our Own, Spacebattles, HFY, various personal author websites, and more

>Why read web novels?
Not for prose or tight editing or deep themes, frankly. As a whole, web novels are infamous for content sprawl and pacing issues. If you enjoy having millions of words to sink your teeth into to get to know the world and characters, though, you may be interested. Keeping up with other readers on a weekly basis to discuss the story's events unfolding is another perk, in the same way discussing an ongoing TV show might be.

>Why write web novels?
Ease of access & potential for Patreon earnings. Many successful authors gain an audience on their website of choice and funnel their readers into a Patreon. See graphtreon.com/top-patreon-creators/writing for an idea of what some are earning.
Also, once an author has earned a fanbase, transitioning into an Amazon self-publishing career is several orders of magnitude easier than starting 'dry'.

>Advice for Noobs!

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>>24717669
her ass is fat, nice
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>>24717669
I was going to say "strong A New Hope inspiration" but it's not 1:1. Awesome regardless.
Love the space battle in the background, reminds me of Target Earth's intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KucLHqqbY7k

You're gonna put the title on top or on the bottom? Or no title?
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>>24717681
I'm with anon
We need to go fatter
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>just saw the Demon Slayer movie
>kept getting distracted thinking about the next fight scenes I want to write
Is this making it or narcissism?
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>>24717686
I think it'll be at the top most likely.

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Gollum should have been killed simply for being ugly and disgusting. Tolkein’s slavish, decadent, obscene moralism is infuriating. He builds a world that looks pretty, with the pleasing scent of the untamed European, but is sick with the putrid rot of herd values. Image how great he could have been if he wrote about blonde beasts instead of leftist midgets
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>>24717434
>the individual
Where is “the individual?” Where is his location in time and space? Who are you to say what respects this thing is owed if you cannot tell me where it is at? Oh right, you’re just parroting a universal construct of the decedents, a dream of the sick metaphysicians. The only thing that demands respect is the concrete instance of living power.
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>>24717401
*creampies you*
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>>24717401
Just one more ugly race bro, just one more, we just need to kill just a few more, than everything will be perfect for all time. Fucking Stalin-Sauron
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>>24717448
Yes because you can locate something as diffuse as "power".
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The gaping hole in his philosophy is the utter lack of engagement with the "Apollonian". Following his line of thought to best disclose Alethiea we may as well go back to mud huffing troglodytes worshiping the great juju up the mountain otherwise we're "enframing" with "metaphysics". I mean even his taste in art is embarrassingly gushy... He really seems to think that simple bongo rhymes are superior to Wagner because they are more "immediate to being". He seems one step away from just becoming an outright primitivist.
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Wagner is, without a doubt, over-intellectualised slop. Thus isn't because his work makes use of theory and sophistication, but because it *only* makes use of theory and sophistication. Well-execution expression of nothing in particular. All craft, no art. In this respect, Ongo Bongo from the depths of the Congo certainly is a greater artist.
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>Non German doesn't understand Heidegger
Many such cases. OP, youre just another casualty.
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>>24716722
I recommend you make more of an effort to get into the spirit of the people you're reading.
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>>24716722
Thread going how you hoped?
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fuck this Nazi bitch
he has absolutely nothing of note to say
just wankery

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>it's ok to have a gay phase as long as you grow up out of it
>but if you don't you, you will end up bitter, poor and diseased
wow
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>>24717524
Based. I face similar internal contradictions and Brideshead was the first work of fiction in a long time to make me feel deeply.

in all honesty I think being gay, and being a gay man specifically, is a very longstanding catholic experience. That’s not meant a slur - I think monasteries, the priesthood etc. were a refuge for a lot of dudes.
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>>24717524
I'm Protestant and straight
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>>24717429
The italian lover of Sebastian's father kinda points out they were kinda gay for each other.
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>>24717724
but that it was a passing schoolboy thing
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>>24717350
To be fair, Charles did just more than trying to convert Julia. He also ruined her life by setting her up with scandals and making her have a divorce. On top, he also ruined his own wife and children in the process.

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>God invented and made the universe — like a man making a picture or composing a tune. A painter is not a picture, and he does not die if his picture is destroyed. You may say, "He's put a lot of himself into it," but you only mean that all its beauty and interest has come out of his head. His skill is not in the picture in the same way that it is in his head, or even in his hands.
but what’s the paint and canvas supposed to be?
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>>24717528
>nothing existed
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>>24717577
Suppose that there once was no thing. No thing was. One can't really picture it, but one can think it. One can contemplate the fact, and indeed one can contemplate this very no-thingness. And in a sense wouldn't this nothing underlie all that is? Wouldn't nothing be the Absolute and all that exists be Contingent? Doesn't existence feel quite arbitrary?
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>>24716890
The answer is the necessary being whose essence is existence, subsistent being itself. The structure of reality is that being uttering its Eternal Word, the Logos, and breathing into creation its Holy Spirit.
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>>24717645
Incredible
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>>24716773
polytheism
>>24716776
pantheism
>>24716829
dualism
>>24717002
dualism
>>24717645
pantheism

you must answer OP without falling into heresy

If you want a long, detailed fantasy series that has tons of lore, monsters, magic, gods and whatnot, you can't beat this. The heroes feel virtuous and the villains make you hate them. 10/10 fantasy series here and there's thirty-two books to delve
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>>24713070
>Did you ever play Myth? It has beautiful animation sequences and a great story,

Never even heard of it, the only Video Game backstories I ever got into were Castlevania and Mortal Kombat, from playing them as a kid. However I wonder if the future for many fantasy authors now is in creating lore and dialogue for Video games like, God of War Ragnorok, and Elden Ring, rather then trying a straight up novel.
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>>24713934
It's great. Written by a university professor, i.e. someone who can actually construct a sentence.
It's not fantasy, however, but science fiction. It's a "planetary romance" inspired by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
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>>24712715
>just read the two books with no Drizzt. The pretty good one thats all Wulfgar, and the one thats all Artemis and Jarlaxe which fucking ruled.
Which two are those?
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>>24717365
I think it's called the Assassins trilogy
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>>24713694
Can you read these in any order?

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"Catzilla" edition

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>>24717458
>it took a near death experience for me to turn my life around and try go completely honest.
Then why you just said " I spent the last week having an affair with my youngest niece"?
I mean, sure you probably went from 0 to 70 or something, but that still sounds off.
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>>24715097
https://litterbox.catbox.moe/
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>>24716980
>>24715154
Okay, how’s this?

https://litter.catbox.moe/ts9q6x75fy6umos6.pdf
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>>24717653
people don't like to click on pdf files, fren
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>>24717716
Goddamnit

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Write your suicide note with your best prose.
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>>24717421
dis guys suicide note was ruined by autocorrect. talk about getting fucked up the ass by life. lol
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>>24712349
there once was a young man from detroit
who tossed and turned every night
with remorse and regrets
and sorrow for the past
and decided to give up the fight
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I couldn't go anywhere without having to take something ridiculous like 6 urgent shits and I know you all think it's funny and not life destroying and that's why I did this
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>>24707999
509 words of worthless slop
>>24708431
26 words of unfiltered brilliance

Amazing how much more you can do with less if you've got the talent
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>>24713651
Don't get me wrong, I have no delusions I'll ever be anything even in death. All the same though my work and giving form to my characters and their story is more important than my life.

To what extent do you think modern humans are beholden to natural evolution?

By that I mean: natural selection is the process where genetic differences lead to certain individuals being more likely to reproduce, and thus pass on the specific genetic traits that made them more likely to do so, leading to organisms changing over many generations. But for modern humans, there are many factors beyond the purely genetic that determine whether someone reproduces or not, and these factors aren't (necessarily) inherited as genetics are, which would suggest "natural" evolution isn't at play anymore.

Wealth, status, education, occupation, political or spiritual membership and community in general, personality; some of these you could potentially argue can be traced back to purely genetic differences, but many have nothing to do with the material makeup of the person being born, and even larger abstract factors like "the state of the nation's economy" or "the geopolitics of the continent" have an effect on if or when humans reproduce. At that point we are lightyears away from genetics mattering.

Not to mention, if we assume that free will exists, someone who is in the position to could simply choose not to reproduce simply because they can. Is "natural selection" still at play there?

And no, I'm not really interested in how you think your god(s) factor into this.
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>>24714661
Lack of coitus. Freud had a point.
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>>24717234
Unfortunately I'm referring to the retarded personality cult around people like Eliezer Yudkowsky and Scott Alexander rather than the genuine philosophical movement.
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>>24717240
Oh I should have known. Carry on.

But on the topic of mimesis and mimetics what literature is relevant?
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>>24717236
People are more promiscuous nowadays than ever before.
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>>24716532
I meant Lucifarians are the ones who engineered and promulgated this false doctrine under the guise of scientific discovery and enlightenment. Succeeding generations of scientists are oblivious to its true origins and propagate it like useful idiots.

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Τῆς ὀπώρης edition

>τὸ πρότερον νῆμα·
>>24669573

>Μέγα τὸ Ἑλληνιστί/Ῥωμαϊστί·
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>Mέγα τὸ ANE·
https://mega dot nz/folder/YfsmFRxA#pz58Q6aTDkwn9Ot6G68NRg

>Work in progress FAQ
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All Classical languages are welcome.
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>>24717105
seemed excessive at first but I guess it can be quite useful, is it automatic?
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>>24717105
Wouldn't it be autismus? It's ecce homo, not ecce hominem.
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>>24717105
Anything to avoid reading smoothly.

>>24717425
Aint dat da vocative or sum shiet? Agreed.
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>>24715647
there's more ON poetry than skaldic such

>>24711564
>>24712136
worst fucking approach imagineable
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>>24717628
ESL detected.

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does /lit/ have an opinion on Johnathan Haidt? I remember him floating around the Sam Harris/Rogan circles a decade ago then vaguely recall falling off for being a junk science charlatan but I still see him pop up in mainstream interviews about cog-sci culture matters.
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Happiness Hypothesis is also very good. It covers the various components (genetics, environment, actions) for achieving the state.
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>>24716985
he is threatening to pseuds who overvalue their metaphysics masturbation
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>>24716985
He just applies Hume to political psychology honestly
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>>24717396
>Would YOU have taken the empty seat in
Yes, city buses are astonishingly safe compared to cars. Much, much, much more likely I'm killed in a car crash while driving alone than killed in a bus crash, and a bus crash is much, much, much more likely than someone stabbing me on the bus
>factor in all that and the probability of being stabbed to death skyrockets
If you vividly imagine someone stabbing you on the bus, it's more likely you'll be scared of it happening, yes
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>>24717411
Guessing you thought Haidt's book was really good

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Books on the future of society and remedies ?
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>>24710088
>Prof
He's an ex-high school teacher who probably got fired for being crazy.
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>>24710231
>namely that Israel would start a war with Iran and drag the US in it.
dude. everyone predicted that.
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>>24710023
He has some incredibly interesting takes on the modern political/social/economic plight of the West, and makes some really thought provoking explanations, theories, and analogies about them that at first might seem very kooky but eventually click in your mind, get stuck in there for a while, and influence your way of looking at things. He’s /ourschizo/, God bless Professor Jiang.
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>>24710860
>Also that there's too many retirees, but also that old people aren't relinquishing their jobs? He just blames too many things on the aging population
Sounds paradoxical but they both could simultaneously be real issues. Just think of it as a large number of Boomers who can fall into either category, hence making things harder for the younger generations in either way.
Since the Boomer generation is so big (that’s why they’re called Boomers, there was a “baby boom” after WW2, or a huge increase in births), you could have a lot of them retiring and hence being difficult/making demands on the economy and Social Security system propping them up, and, if disabled or becoming disabled, on their younger children, or on the nursing homes they’re put into.
And, conversely, on the other hand, since it’s such a big generation, there could also be a bunch of them not retiring, whether in fields like middle and upper management at corporations, or as tenured professors at universities not giving up their posts and contributing to the brutal job market for new professors, etc. Hence also harming the younger generations by making the job market more difficult for them, not freeing up as much space for new talent. If you assume they also tend towards filling the positions of authority in various of these jobs, we can also talk about their hiring practices, perhaps how they make things harder for younger gen’s in that way too. (For instance, seemingly petty small stuff like requiring a bachelor’s degree even for their basic shit office job, when they didn’t necessarily need it, or when in their day college wasn’t as prohibitively expensive and the loans/debt incurred wasn’t so much of a possible fatal albatross around one’s neck.)

You don’t have to view this strictly as a moral criticism of Boomers. According to conventional logic, they can basically either retire, or they can choose to keep working, they have to do one or the other, so it’s hard to blame them for choosing one. But it could still be true that both of these can cause issues, and it’s part of a larger demographic crisis the West is facing. Look at it apart from moral judgment, and just as a description of the state of affairs.
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>>24711505
He's just rehashing Spenglers history of religion then. Dawson and Voegelin are better in that regard

The most tragic figure of the 21st century
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>>24714977
Please check out https://byzantinus.net/ some time, it's a textboard centered around the humanities and you two have an spirit that would very fitting for the site's purpose. It's invite-only but you can get an access code through a faucet right now.
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>>24716741
>It's invite-only but you can get an access code through a faucet right now.
who do you do this and who owns/runs it?
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>>24716705
That’s not it. His thesis, even if it is just restating Hegel, is the main doctrine guiding the post-Cold War West.
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>>24717174
>is the main doctrine guiding the post-Cold War West.
no its not. thats the low IQ think tank take. history ended in the first half of the 19th century. accept it.
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