The irony is that a *foreign* enemy would never force barbershops to close.
But an internal one sure would.
Another irony: the decline of violence in the modern world has been cited as a reason to doubt the necessity of an armed populace.
But what if the very fact of pacification leaves us vulnerable to a society of #Karens flipping out over a bad flu?
To put it concretely: is someone destroying your livelihood through bureaucratic fiat any less an act of aggression than destroying it with arms, fire, etc.?
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Was the French Revolution a race war, a slaughter of Nordics by Alpines?
Madison Grant thought that stereoscopic vision evolved to allow accurate brachiation. Similar to @MarkChangizi's theory that it evolved to see through leaf clutter
The Yankee establishes the frontier, the Germanic develops it.
Eeben Barlow recruited an informant by having her fortune teller foresee that she'd be in a fender bender, that her lucky number was 777, & that a stranger would solve her money problems
Barlow's team then rear ended her car & arranged for her to meet Barlow in a hotel room #777
@EebenB is on Twitter. Maybe you consider his services for your next geopolitical transaction.
Barlow claims that members of the South African government had a private interest in keeping Angola's diamond fields in the hands of the communists. Anything to this?
Durant, in 1931, with something close to the Pendell/Rushton theory of cold winters
"Change within to meet the change outside"
Durant noticed incipient gynocracy in the 30s
Keyserling saw African Americans as supplying a factitious culture for ethnically fragmented whites. Durant thought the observation malicious but true.