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Latin America was basically colonised as a gold mining area for the benefit of Spain, the Thirteen Colonies actually created an independent economy.

Hadn't he already had that with his invasion of India?

All "AI" does is generate a statistical average of its training data. That's it. Which is why when you ask it to write a biology paper it makes stuff with pseudo-biological diagrams of rats with penises bigger than themselves, and why when you ask it to draw a "Where's Wally" picture it makes a...

All evidence indicates that AI is impossible to accomplish, at least with traditional computing. All "AI" systems do is create pictures and text based on their algorithms without understanding what they're doing ... because there's no "there" there.

The Russian Orthodox Church has been a front for the NKVD/KGB/FSB since Soviet times, after they realised they couldn't exterminate all religious people.

The thing is, Russia has no institutions except the secret police, since communism destroyed and hollowed out everything else.

He was a political and historical commentator and neo-Spenglerian academic: www.benespen.com/spenglers-future/

According to Wiki:

One has to note also that Mohism died because the other schools of thought took for themselves everything that was appealing about it and its main selling point, siege warfare, was redundant because China had now been unified.

An interesting book review on the potential form the future may take: https://www.benespen.com/journal/2019/12/30/the-long-view-empires-of-trust-how-rome-built-and-america-is-building-a-new-world-by-thomas-f-madden

One should note that: A: American domestic politics are seemingly starting to merge with those of the general 'Western cultural sphere'. B: @Skallagrim estimates that there will be another military crisis in Europe which America will intervene in. C: America is at the centre of a network of...

@Skallagrim did say that the Optimate/Populares split would cut across current party lines.

At the least, staying defensive in the west keeps Britain neutral, which weakens the French and means no Royal Navy blockade. I seriously doubt the French will be able to push through the narrow corridor of Alsace-Lorraine on their own, and if they try Plan XII that obligates Britain to go to...

Not to mention that the Chinese "high culture" seems to have eventually revived itself relatively unchanged after the fall of the Han - there's even more continuity between the Han and the Ming than between Rome and medieval Europe. Which seems to argue against his thesis that after its...

Something I don't think really makes sense with Spengler is his bizarre insistence that all "high cultures" are fundamentally completely different and incapable of influencing each other in any way. Not to mention that he totally fails to explain where the "symbol-concepts" that he claims are...

Very true. I don't think a declining empire would descend wholesale into Mad-Maxery so much as break up or be conquered by foreign powers. If we can look at technological progress for instance, the Middle Ages actually had a higher technological level than Rome, but reduced organisational...

According to Reilly, there's a plague caused by Thing-esque bacteria from Europa. Then everything just goes to shit over time and genetically-engineered neo-barbarians rampage around doing Mad Max shenanigans while the Empire builds giant pointless megafactories until eventually it just withers...

You're not going to have that till Kingdom Come.

I thought the lower classes were going to be genengineered to be less intelligent?

Hmm, it's certainly telling that you worry so deeply about the very "ideal society" you want to manifest in the world ...