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In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. Friedrich Nietzsche

daniel November 20, 2021November 20, 2021 A Nation Divided, A Revolution Born in Defeat, Another Frightening Similarity between French History and Modern America: The Paris Commune, Paris Commune, Some disturbing similarities, The Bloody Week, The Paris Commune, the Paris Commune of 1871, Trauma and Revolution

Another Frightening Similarity between French History and Modern America: The Paris Commune

Those policies were a total rejection of the new National Assembly at Versailles and the results of the 8 February 1871 election. Hence, we see another reminder of modern America in which people reject the results of elections for ideological reasons.

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daniel November 14, 2021November 14, 2021 Big Data, Information Revolutions, Information Revolutions Old and New, The Big Data Revolution, The Digital Empire, The Digital Welfare State, The First Information Revolution, The New Information Revolution, The Response to the First Information Revolution

Information Revolutions Old and New

Big Data and Social media are driving the Information Revolution that is transforming our world.

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daniel November 13, 2021November 13, 2021 A Golf Game that ultimately cost Billions, How DC Comics Helped Create the Marvel Universe, Marvel Universe, The Comic Business in the 1950s, The Lawsuit that Killed Captain Marvel, The Rise of the Marvel Universe, The Silver Age and the Fantastic Four

How DC Comics Helped Create the Marvel Universe

Incredibly, the true origin of the Marvel Universe could have been at a golf game in 1961.

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daniel October 30, 2021November 3, 2021 A Frightening Similarity between Revolutionary France and Modern America, Income Inequality American Style, La Terror, Revolutionary France, Revolutionary France and Modern America, The Bankrupt Kingdom, The King’s Dilemma, The Paper King

A Frightening Similarity between Revolutionary France and Modern America

To explain, by 1786 France was broke because people with income were not paying taxes. Moreover, most historians blame King Louis XVI’s clumsy efforts to tax the rich for triggering the French Revolution.

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daniel October 24, 2021October 24, 2021 Books that Made History

Books that Made History

No author in human history had better timing than Thomas Paine. The English immigrant published Common Sense, the first work to popularize the concept of the modern nation state on 9 January 1776.

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daniel October 6, 2021October 6, 2021 A Lasting Legacy, Charles Fey - The Man With The Plan, Charles Fey’s Liberty Bell, First Slot Machine, history of slot machine, slots, The Legacy Of The First Slot Machine: Charles Fey’s Liberty B, The Story of The Liberty Bell, video slots

The Legacy Of The First Slot Machine: Charles Fey’s Liberty Bell

It might be hard to imagine just how wild the people went for this machine, but it was the biggest hit of its time. In fact, so hugely positive was the reception that Charles Fey had to go around to saloons all over California to install his machine. Suffice it to say that this was the beginning of the slots revolution in earnest.

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daniel September 19, 2021September 19, 2021 Americans need to learn what losing and Defeat are, Blame the Military, How the “We Lost Vietnam” Mythology led to the Afghan and Iraq Wars, losing and Defeat, No we Did not Lose in Vietnam, we lost fallacy, Why do we Think Americans lost in Vietnam?

Americans need to learn what losing and defeat are

I think supporters of American imperialism spread the “we lost fallacy” to hide their own failures.

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daniel September 12, 2021September 12, 2021 A Video Game Revolution, Can Video Games Trigger a Revolution?, Video Games and Revolution, Will Video Games Destroy the People’s Republic of China?

Will Video Games Destroy the People’s Republic of China?

Given that history, restricting video games could trigger revolts or demonstrations against the Chinese Communist Party.

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daniel September 5, 2021September 5, 2021 Chinese tea monopoly, East India Company, Grease, Legal Documents the Stamp Tax, Opium, Salt, Some Stupid Things that almost destroyed the British Empire, Stamp Act, Tea Act of 1773

Commodities that destroyed the British Empire

Hence, two humble commodities tea and opium transformed the world by setting the stage for the rise of the two great powers of the 21st Century, the United States of America and the People’s Republic of China.

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daniel September 4, 2021September 4, 2021 1. The Jacksonian Revolution. Roughly 1820 to 1835, it is not the 1960s All Over Again, Prelude to Civil War the Crazy 1850s, So what earlier political eras resemble ours?, The Jacksonian Revolution, The Progressive Era, What Political Eras Resemble Ours?

What Political Eras Resemble Ours?

I think our era is more violent and dangerous than the Sixties. However, the radicalism and violence we see today is not unprecedented in American history.