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Online diary of Karl Jones for Sunday September 27, 2020.
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Guns Germs and Steel
It's been fifteen years since I've read Guns Germs and Steel.
Diamond argues geo-solar determinism: Eurasia is East-West oriented, giving it a solar radiation advantage over the Americas and Africa, which are North-South oriented.
Europe got the "cargo" — the goods and services of the Industrial Revolution — because Europe was the right size peninsula in the right place on the right continent at the right time.
I can't find anything in Diamond's work which alludes to mutation, or provides a metaphor or reference point for mutation. What am I missing here?
Condemn the prison system
First priority — condemn the prison system for eating young men alive, and champion prison reform.
Amish preferential treatment is a minor injustice embedded in a major injustice.
This is another float in [REDACTED]'s anti-Christianity parade, alienating yet more potential allies.
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You're not tilting at windmills. You're eating a fucking tar baby for breakfast every day.