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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? | |||
* [[Guns, Germs, and Steel (nonfiction)]] | |||
=== 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. | |||
[and] | |||
You're not tilting at windmills. You're eating a fucking tar baby for breakfast every day. | |||
[[Eating the Tar Baby for Breakfast]] - Tales of the Post-Napalm Generation | |||
== In the News == | == In the News == | ||
Latest revision as of 05:48, 23 December 2020
Online diary of Karl Jones for Sunday September 27, 2020.
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Ely, Minnesota - First and Chapman - 20200927 074120.
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.
[and]
You're not tilting at windmills. You're eating a fucking tar baby for breakfast every day.
Eating the Tar Baby for Breakfast - Tales of the Post-Napalm Generation