America's too.

the phallusy fallacy

Look at the volume of quotations of Avicenna (Ibn Sina) and Averroes (Ibn Rushd) by medieval philosophers as a counterpoint.

you could more accurately relate it to the Greek war with the Persians. That's where many of the tropes about Western freedoms vs Eastern tyranny originate. Long before the Latin church was heard of.

See Aeschylus' The Persians

That's more of a statement of the 'Plato to NATO' Western civilization meme than anything real.

Newgrange has nothing to do with the Celts: it predates their arrival by several thousand years.

humans are not designed

In Ireland at least local calls were a fixed price, no matter how long the call was. Long-distance calls were billed by the minute.

No they weren't - they were billed by the minute. About 5c/min in new money. That's why you had things like night and off-peak tariffs for 56k dial-up services in Ireland in the early 00s.

is that you. Adrian Zenz?

thank god at least 1% of HN users aren't so heavily propagandized - makes me believe in the future a bit more.

> "The future has lost it's appeal to me"

culture is stuck in endless remakes of optimistic 70s futurism

it's an important point: we don't have a future, a telos, that doesn't fill us with foreboding