Dwayne wrote:
> Sigh. Look, if you're ignorant of history, don't parade it.
> The mongols never made it past Vienna. In fact I don't think they
> made it *to* Vienna. ...
You may be thinking of the Turks, who besieged Vienna in 1529 and 1683.
The Mongols (coming through Poland) reached central Germany, if memory
serves; they turned back in 1241 because their leader died.
> > So you admit that cultural evolution is "a long row of bad coincidences,
> > backstabbings, and battle for power"? If this is so, why do you say that "power
> > structures need to end" for human evolution to occur?
>
> Because without this scrabbling for power we'd have evolved a lot
> further than we have to date. Look at how long it took Europe to
> climb back up after the fall of Rome.
Gee, call me naive, but I'd have sworn the fall of Rome amounted to the
end of a power structure.
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