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Shakespeare is important because he straddles the psychic delineation of the last truly human war, between Catholicism and Protestantism. Wars afterwards are wars of machinery and raw killing power over the ownership of humans as quantifiable production output. But the forces that would culminate in the English Civil War were already deeply felt in Shakespeare’s time a generation earlier. It was the last time men fought purely for ideas alone.
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Rev. Onan Canobite, SubGenius 2y ago

#[0] "It was the last time men fought purely for ideas alone."

Islam?

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Forrest Gummo 253 2y ago

#[0] Pft, West is best.

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Forrest Gummo 253 2y ago

#[0] I KEED I KEED

Naw, Islam, once removed from the continent, ceases to be an intellectual force and devolves into what it is today. They never recovered from the Reconquista, which is why they’re not a serious alternative to anything offered by the West. In fact, it allowed Europe to colonize Africa and the Subcontinent by actively denigrating technological progress that wasn’t in their sphere. I don’t consider Islam anything but slowly settling ripples.