'Civilization" and "height" were bad choices of words by the article IMO. Maya is more of an ethnicity than a social structure.

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10% finder's fee by law.

He also had a flare for the dramatic.

Brough?

The people were, I do believe. That time period represented the height of the civilization, not the alpha and the omega.

Fall of Civilisations has an incredible podcast on the rise and fall of the Mayans, and many other civilisations. Highly recommend a listen

>The Maya civilization reached its height between 250 and 900 AD

So was it still really Mayan when it was conquered by the spanish?

Well yeah, not only WW1 but also WW2. If it wasn't for the USSR and the USA, Churchil and the French would've kept their colonial empires. Kinda funny how propaganda works

I'm just trivalizing your issue since you do it so easily to more important ones, obviously there's more to it, but it's still nothing compared to other problems

That's a caricature.

The Grifters On Parade want to maximize their own power and position...just like the Democrats.

To do this, they lie to voters and pretend to share the values and interests of those voters...just like the Democrats.

JUST LIKE EVERY OTHER POLITICAL PARTY AND FACTION.

All of the above employ propagandists whose job it is to persuade voters that their team are the good guys and opposing teams are comprised of fools and demons. All are lying. There are no good guys in politics, just power hungry psychopaths who want to rob the public treasury, seize control over private industry, and tell the rest of us how we must live.

In societies that are not morally and spiritually bankrupt, the ability of these villains to rob and enslave the public are limited. They must maintain a facade of legitimacy in order to maintain the support of their victims, aka voters. They can only go so far. When one political faction or another oversteps its bounds and does things that are clearly immoral or contrary to the public good, their support drops, they lose elections, and another faction increases its power instead. Over and over, round and round, every faction competes for the folly of the electorate, with no side gaining permanent supremacy.

We call this the political process, in which we the people decide which band of criminals we are going to give power to based upon whose lies and empty promises seem most appealing at that moment. Criminal ambitions on all sides are constrained because criminal ambition is set against criminal ambition, and no gang ever wins forever.

But as America proceeds headlong into abject moral and spiritual bankruptcy, this mechanism increasingly fails to function, and the worst of the worst on all sides are emboldened to be overtly criminal in their actions and aims.

Welcome to 2022.

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…according to his self-aggrandising, partially fictitious accounts.

I’m 80% sure the Turkish soldier thing is Lawrence’s homoerotic slash fiction, so don’t feel too bad for him. Controversial area, there is some decent scholarship on this issue.

Left it on a train actually.

Too much to dig in . Good collection

I have a 2nd edition of that book; it is a very good read, and a nice little volume.

Trevor Lawrence felt bad for his poor performance in London and for some reason apologizes for the price of oil too

Edit: also he switched to a tight end...

A 3 hour long Mastodont of a slow burn that will leave you wondering just how many recordings of dustdevils are necessary to understand that arabia is a desert.

I've always thought it was a bit naive to assume the Arabs would ever be given self rule.. if you draw a circle 3000km in radius around that part of the world in 1918 you pretty much only find one "self ruled" country, Ethiopia.

Its always felt a bit like mental gymnastics on his part to suggest he expected the British to just give up the Middle East post-war.

It's also a convenient industry to control when you sometimes need to make evidence or body bags disappear

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They weren’t British colonies though. They allied with the British against the Ottomans.

How can you put the bullets before the bayonet ‽‽

Actually the city was handed over to Australian forces before Lawrence and the Arab forces arrived. But they departed to pursue fleeing ottoman forces