| | | You are really out of touch with "Negro," Mq. I don't mind the rejection of it by our Blacks. Quit thinking of it in terms of race and think of it in terms of culture. Were you aware that our Black African immigrants do as well here as our White? It's the American Black culture that is ruining our Blacks.
I have learned one hell of a lot the last ten years since I got involved with this thread. The Internet has made a wonderful difference in our ability to learn.
I have a "Ted Talk" almost ready to go on this subject. We have a "Nerd Night" here at a local bar where you pay $5 to hear three 20 minute talks on whatever subject interests our local Nerds. My talk is called, "The River of Knowledge." The Headwaters are Philosophy, going down river to Physics to Biology to us. Eventually, I will video it and put it on YouTube.
The Anglo Saxon Culture is dominate, IMO, because we started with the Greeks. Aristotle gave us a knowable universe and the use of reason as the tool to explore it. All major world cultures made to a Medieval level, and then stalled. Aristotle kicked in for us when we finally settled our Euro religious wars and the Age and Reason and Enlightenment was allowed to happen. The Anglo Saxon culture was the strongest of all the Euro cultures in the use of Latin and Greek. Which led to more use of Aristotle than any other Euro cultures. The Asian and Middle East Cultures did not have this BG.
This reached it's culmination in Issac Newton's PRINCIPIA, which gave us an operational definition of gravity and the three laws of motion. This integrated physics and is, IMO, the anchor point of history. Out of this period came the industrial revolution and our modern world.
Plato was on the other side of the coin. He proposed a separate unknowable universe where the Gods were, and the concept that reason was of no use. His major followers are Hegel and Kant. Rand called them, "The three destroyers of the modern world."
So the modern fight is "Plato vs Aristotle." We here are on the side of Aristotle. Our enemies are on Plato's side.
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