EUROPE
As @nntaleb postulated, History is fabrications, hearsay and some truth.
Entirely true for Europe now when technology used for DNA and historiography has concluded that NOTHING deemed European now is actually European.
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As @nntaleb postulated, History is fabrications, hearsay and some truth.
Entirely true for Europe now when technology used for DNA and historiography has concluded that NOTHING deemed European now is actually European.
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https://twitter.com/ektrit/status/1454018716103028738
@nntaleb In the 19th century when the current concept of Europe was created, it was believed that Rome copied Greece, and Greece invented stuff by itself.
Now, it has been discovered that Greeks copied from Egyptians, Assyrians and Phoenicians.
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Now, it has been discovered that Greeks copied from Egyptians, Assyrians and Phoenicians.
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@nntaleb Heck, even the name Europe comes from the Phoenicians, now modern Levantines.
We can say now that Modern Europe is based entirely on what is now called Middle East, Iraq, Levant, Egypt, knowledge unknown in the 19th century.
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We can say now that Modern Europe is based entirely on what is now called Middle East, Iraq, Levant, Egypt, knowledge unknown in the 19th century.
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@nntaleb And quite funny that there is immense difference between European and American academics.
Europeans focusing on Identity and Americans saying "What is Identity"?
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Europeans focusing on Identity and Americans saying "What is Identity"?
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@nntaleb True historiography is now being made only in America, whereas European Elite has switched from History to Religion again, to fight off the ...imagined... threat of Islam to Europe.
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