• vga@sopuli.xyz
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      4 days ago

      Opposing things sure, but “totally opposing”? I don’t think so. They have tempered each other, not invalidated.

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        2 days ago

        Ah yes, European history, famously full of compromise and tempering. /s

        Edit: I guess what I’m saying is, each of those stages fed the neighboring one to, like, lions or guillotines. It wasn’t really an additive, growing process, and classical Roman culture is a lot more like Chinese culture than modern European culture, in some ways.

        You might as well add in the bronze age cannibals and Neanderthals as well, at that rate.