Social order in most of the rest of the world was traditionally based on clan and dynastic honor systems (which typically result in inbreeding of the local gene pool), fealty oaths, pre-literate verbal traditions, superstition, and so forth.
The US federal govt has preserved the pre-western sites of ritual human sacrifice in Hawaii to preserve indigenous traditions and for the edification of tourists.
"Wokeism" mostly fetishizes non-western culture, but some social scientists think that pre-modern Japan was near to evolving something like "classically liberal" culture (Constitutional order).
Islamic culture generally did not have the geopolitical, climatological or economic pre-requisites (trade+an expanding, literate, educated, urban commoner class) for cultural evolution toward a liberal social form. The Arab gene pool reportedly started becoming more inbred a couple of hundred years of the establishment and spread of Islam, after some initial mixing due to conquests. A liberal middle eastern historian I used to know claimed that muslim social elites came to an agreement about 800 years ago tht they had reached the pinnacle of advanced civilization (arts, architecture, libraries, international banking, etc.), so they needed to freeze the culture to prevent it from declining. But it declined anyway, becoming urbane, cosmopolitan, sophisticated but too weak to be able to fight off the Mongolian Hordes. To be fair, no one else had much fighting off the Mongolians, some of which converted to Islam after giving up nomadic life.
Without something like an industrial economy, the Muslim world was highly dependent on the slave economy for labor, which is why the Royal Navy made a big deal about abolishing slavery, to weaken the Muslim world and made its colonization easier.
Maiden, Mother Matriarch was just super! I'd left subtitles on; the AI trying to make sense of properly pronounced Latin in an Australian accent was added hilarity.
My extrapolation and inference:
The Romans extending citizenship for tax reasons doomed the Empire by creating the conditions for religious lunatics to take it over just as the Roman Warm Period and "Halcyon Days" were coming to a natural conclusion and an immigration crisis was emerging. We introduced Civil Rights and tinkered with Immigration Law just as another Warm Period was coming along naturally and ending our "Halcyon Days" as an immigration crisis was emerging. The unintended consequences (Including religious lunatics grabbing the wheel) will see our analogue for Humiliores and Honestiores rock-up. If we implement that (Whatever 'that' proves to be) with eyes wide open, we might save ourselves. If we don't account for the unintended consequences of our previous unintended consequences, (The car-crash of "Liberal Facism"; "Regressive Progressivism"; "Intersectionality; and "Wokism"; etc. with NATURAL climate change and migration crisis) we won't.
So looking forward to this....
Excuse typos, what happens when one's internet is on the fritz.
"By contrast, the Netherlands has never codified its Roman-derived law.."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgerlijk_Wetboek
Social order in most of the rest of the world was traditionally based on clan and dynastic honor systems (which typically result in inbreeding of the local gene pool), fealty oaths, pre-literate verbal traditions, superstition, and so forth.
The US federal govt has preserved the pre-western sites of ritual human sacrifice in Hawaii to preserve indigenous traditions and for the edification of tourists.
"Wokeism" mostly fetishizes non-western culture, but some social scientists think that pre-modern Japan was near to evolving something like "classically liberal" culture (Constitutional order).
Islamic culture generally did not have the geopolitical, climatological or economic pre-requisites (trade+an expanding, literate, educated, urban commoner class) for cultural evolution toward a liberal social form. The Arab gene pool reportedly started becoming more inbred a couple of hundred years of the establishment and spread of Islam, after some initial mixing due to conquests. A liberal middle eastern historian I used to know claimed that muslim social elites came to an agreement about 800 years ago tht they had reached the pinnacle of advanced civilization (arts, architecture, libraries, international banking, etc.), so they needed to freeze the culture to prevent it from declining. But it declined anyway, becoming urbane, cosmopolitan, sophisticated but too weak to be able to fight off the Mongolian Hordes. To be fair, no one else had much fighting off the Mongolians, some of which converted to Islam after giving up nomadic life.
Without something like an industrial economy, the Muslim world was highly dependent on the slave economy for labor, which is why the Royal Navy made a big deal about abolishing slavery, to weaken the Muslim world and made its colonization easier.
Read Ernst Junger’s “The Worker.”
The world is changing.
Maiden, Mother Matriarch was just super! I'd left subtitles on; the AI trying to make sense of properly pronounced Latin in an Australian accent was added hilarity.
My extrapolation and inference:
The Romans extending citizenship for tax reasons doomed the Empire by creating the conditions for religious lunatics to take it over just as the Roman Warm Period and "Halcyon Days" were coming to a natural conclusion and an immigration crisis was emerging. We introduced Civil Rights and tinkered with Immigration Law just as another Warm Period was coming along naturally and ending our "Halcyon Days" as an immigration crisis was emerging. The unintended consequences (Including religious lunatics grabbing the wheel) will see our analogue for Humiliores and Honestiores rock-up. If we implement that (Whatever 'that' proves to be) with eyes wide open, we might save ourselves. If we don't account for the unintended consequences of our previous unintended consequences, (The car-crash of "Liberal Facism"; "Regressive Progressivism"; "Intersectionality; and "Wokism"; etc. with NATURAL climate change and migration crisis) we won't.
Would those be fair inferences and conclusions?