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For a while, I had thought that the modern world had finally transcended the grip of medieval-minded ignorance. But the medievals didn't go away, and they even
by pklausler 10y ago
For a while, I had thought that the modern world had finally transcended the grip of medieval-minded ignorance. But the medievals didn't go away, and they eventually organized and voted and, in the U.S., got lucky with a system that disproportionately allocates presidential voting power, allowing the GOP to win 3 out of the past 7 elections despite having won the vote only once.
- ginko 10y agoNation states are an invention of the 19th century. Give the Middle Ages more credit.
- pklausler 10y agoSurely the U.S.A. (a 1776 result of the scientific Enlightenment responsible for every single improvement to human life, assuming that you don't want to be a disease-ridden illiterate peasant lucky to make it to your 30's) meets any reasonable categorization of a nation-state. 46% of Americans believe that humans were created in their current form sometime in the last 10,000 years by a Bronze Age deity fond of stoning. Don't even start trying to convince me that the medieval world is behind us.
- mi100hael 10y ago[Citation Needed] I realize there are some folks with their head in the sand, but I've never once met someone who actually believed that and I'm not even coastal.
- pklausler 10y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Earth_creationism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Earth_creationism
- jamiek88 10y agoCome to Texas you can meet someone every day if you like.
- pklausler 10y agoThe old joke: we could boost average living standards and educational accomplishment in two countries at the same time by giving Texas back to Mexico.
- DaiPlusPlus 10y agoRight, I'd rather live in a fiefdom.