Ribh's D'Coopage

[Ribh]

I've always been an idealist. It's a big problem for me.

I think we have focused on different things too. I don't often see papers like this. By the time I'm reading this stuff it's become a book & very well notated so I can source everything referenced & cross check everything. My library is exceptional this way. While I've been accused of being an idealist I don't think I am, so when I read stuff like this I tend to see it as unrealistic & starting from a false premise ~ That ethnicity & place don't matter. We are all cosmopolitans. I would challenge this based on language alone because language reflects how we think & how we think is formed by language. In Gaelic the male/female gender allocations are a little weird @ times ~ maybe I shouldn't go there... The neuter gender has been lost. English is very different to say nothing of the click~click languages of Africa or Hungarian or the number of words Eskimos have to describe snow! All of which reflects priorities in culture & is massively important when you think about ethnicity & what it means to identify with a certain culture.

Sorry if I'm a bit disjointed. I have the kiddies & am trying to keep up in between cries of Morai!

 

[BY Bob]

Oh goody! Someone who understands why I might find Herodotus questionable.

Whoever that is!

 

[Ribh]

Whoever that is!

Ancient Greek *Historian* ~ not always terribly accurate, though quite a bit is, so you have to be rather careful about what you accept as truth from him.

 

[BY Bob]

Ancient Greek *Historian* ~ not always terribly accurate, though quite a bit is, so you have to be rather careful about what you accept as truth from him.

Got it. Thanks.

 

[featherhead007]

Ancient Greek *Historian* ~ not always terribly accurate, though quite a bit is, so you have to be rather careful about what you accept as truth from him.

Same as a public history book in this USA! No truth

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

Noodle is gorgeous!

She is the cat who walks alone. You can pet her, but only on her terms.

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

You kidding? Kids these days think Plato is a toy for grammar school !

Oh dear Alex. We really do need an eye roll response emoji.

 

[Ribh]

She's getting close to being a lap chicken.

 

[Shadrach]

What does @Shadrach think of the paper?

Shadrach thinks this is an academic style paper that puts foreward an arguement for discussion. It's about culture more than a set in stone version of history. I don't know much about history and I haven't read the references sited.
I got sent the paper because we are having a discussion about the independence movement in Scotland. I'm against the seperation of Scotland from the UK. My objection has nothing to do with liking the way Scotland has been treated by the British Government.
My main objections are these.
Without the Scottish socialists the UK is destined to be run by the privilidged right wing of the Tory party for the forseeable future. The only way this can be changed is with the Scottish and Welsh socialist vote.
I'm not a fan of Nationalism. It seems to me to be divisive rather than inclusive. It usually ends up as not we are different but we are better than the other lot. I haven't seen any evidence to support this.
So, while I'm happy to have cultural roots, I favour a society that permits the expression of such roots in a boader system of government.
The paper goes some way to help support my view.

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

She's getting close to being a lap chicken.

Is that our Desdemona? She is sounding so grown up and looks so relaxed on your lap! Adorable.