Aurelius@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 10 months agoWho in history (either present or in the past) do you think has had the biggest positive impact on humanity?message-squaremessage-square243fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareWho in history (either present or in the past) do you think has had the biggest positive impact on humanity?Aurelius@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 10 months agomessage-square243fedilink
minus-squarefrightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·10 months agoThe enlightenment is overrated. History is driven by contestst of groups not contests of ideas.
minus-squaremindbleach@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·10 months agoAs a counterpoint, may I submit: your own fucking username?
minus-squarefrightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·10 months agoHow is historical materialism a counterpoint to historical materialism?
minus-squarefrightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 months agoBe weird if they had made the first line of the Preface a counterpoint to the first line of Part 1
minus-squaremindbleach@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 months agoWhich group contested your attention to this idea two months later?
minus-squaregapbetweenus@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0·10 months agoAnd people are often governed or motivated by ideas.
minus-squarefrightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·10 months agoPeople are governed/motivated by self-interest.
minus-squaregapbetweenus@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0·10 months agoSo you don’t have ideas in your head about the world that affect how you interact with the world? Might be true for you, but I would say it’s not an universal experience. Also I don’t say it’s juts ideas but ideas are part of our psychology.
minus-squareCarrolade@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·10 months agoThat statement sounds an awful lot like … an idea.
The enlightenment is overrated. History is driven by contestst of groups not contests of ideas.
As a counterpoint, may I submit: your own fucking username?
How is historical materialism a counterpoint to historical materialism?
Be weird if they had made the first line of the Preface a counterpoint to the first line of Part 1
Which group contested your attention to this idea two months later?
And people are often governed or motivated by ideas.
People are governed/motivated by self-interest.
So you don’t have ideas in your head about the world that affect how you interact with the world? Might be true for you, but I would say it’s not an universal experience. Also I don’t say it’s juts ideas but ideas are part of our psychology.
That statement sounds an awful lot like … an idea.