#modern civilization

[1000-year-old-virgin]

I pretty sure men are responsible for the down fall of every great civilization that ever was and to be more specific I'm sure the vast majority of them were white men as well.

#shakira #barbie movie #toxic masculinity #barbie #modern civilization

[bigdatadept]

Accelerationism Unfolding: The Real-World Impacts of a Controversial Philosophy

Explaining #Accelerationism: A deep dive into how elite strategies might hasten societal change and our role in a rapidly evolving world.

As someone who values practicality, I often reflect on simpler times, before the pervasive dominance of the internet. My recent encounter with the term “accelerationism” in decentralized media struck a chord, prompting deep contemplation. To put it plainly, accelerationism is akin to driving a failing car engine to its limit to manage the aftermath of its inevitable failure. It’s a metaphor for…

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#accelerationism #capitalism #Chinese governance model #controlling the future #crisis management #decentralized media #economic dilemmas #elite strategy #four turnings theory #future of society #geopolitical trends #global affairs #global crises #intellectual movements #modern civilization #Nick Land #political ideologies #practical philosophy #pragmatist viewpoint #public welfare #radical thought #societal change #societal collapse #technological advancement

[gazellesapphire]

Look at this... 👀

Look at this... 👀 https://pin.it/6cDB72c

#social norms #lakota #modern civilization #respect #amazing nature #wilderness

[in-sightpublishing]

An Attack on Salman Rushdie is Indeed an Attack to Freedom of Thought and Expression

An Attack on Salman Rushdie is Indeed an Attack to Freedom of Thought and Expression

                      Author: Isakwisa Amanyisye Lucas Mwakalonge Numbering: Issue 1.B, Idea: African Freethinking Place of Publication: Langley, British Columbia, Canada Title: African Freethinker Web Domain: http://www.in-sightpublishing.com/ Individual Publication Date: August 27, 2022 Issue Publication Date: TBD Name of Publisher: In-Sight Publishing Frequency: TBD Words: 332 Keywords: courts…

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#courts of law #East Africa #Isakwisa Amanyisye Lucas Mwakalonge #modern civilization #religious radicalism #Salman Rushdie #Tanzania

[lazycranberrydoodles]

woe mundane monopoly headcanons be upon ye

follow for more of modern au hua cheng’s outfits

#mostly completed this a month ago and then procrastinated the final touches until now lmao #its. so low quality. i also switched to a new brush for lineart and now this is kinda 🥴 #i wanted to draw my modern au designs :3 #fun facts: #hua cheng has a glass eye but he still covers it with his bangs #modern HC shops at prada btw #MQ is described as looking more like a civil god than a martial one so he has a goth academia type thing going on #FX wears sports team shirts everywhere sorry #mu qing’s mug has 3 different level markers #“fuck off” “i can hear you i just dont care” and “ok what were you saying?” #i think mu qing would hate that sort of mug but feng xin and xie lian keep giving them to him #apologies to anyone who doesnt know the rules of monopoly this is incomprehensible without previous knowledge #so: do i believe these four would actually voluntarily hang out post canon #yes actually. fxmq and hua cheng mutually tolerate each other for xie lians sake #imo after like a LONG time hc could actually be friendly towards fx (in book 2 fx admits how courageous hong hong’er is) or mq (bitch2bitch #but i dont think thatll happen there is way too much resentment that goes both ways #remember that theyve canonically fought multiple times ‼️ #tgcf #art #tian guan ci fu #天官赐福 #heaven official’s blessing #hualian #hua cheng #xie lian #fengqing #feng xin #mu qing #xianle trio #my art

[canisalbus]

Just the thought of a wedding between Vasco and Machete is mind-numbingly sweet. They deserve the best one possible.

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#awh TmT #people sometimes ask whether they'd get married in the modern au #and by all means they would #I don't know who would be the first to bring that up but I think both of them would be very much into the idea #same sex marriage still isn't legal in Italy I believe? it's one of the last countries in western europe where that's the case #civil unions offer many of the same legal rights and benefits as marriage but it's sort of a second-rate consolation prize situation #answered #anonymous

[captain-price-unofficially]

The suspension of a Toyota barely handles the recoil of a 90mm gun. Syria

#assault gun #improvised armor #modern #syrian civil war

[brother-emperors]

so it’s. it’s like. man this is so hard without my laptop.

alright so Crassus is a weird guy, existentially. There’s a tendency to speculate, assign, and insert him into whatever places are conspiratorial and shadowy because he fits into those narrative places with ease. My personal favorite (aside from all of it) is the idea that he may have pulled strings wrt to Sulla and Caesar’s conflict to help get Caesar out of it.

The Defeat of Rome: Crassus, Carrhae and the Invasion of the East, Gareth C. Sampson

In the universe that exists in my head, he definitely had a hand in it, but he didn’t really intend for Caesar to figure out he played a part in it, but Caesar’s good at puzzles, and noticing someone goes both ways. Binding someone to yourself goes both ways.

Crassus: The First Tycoon, Peter Stothard

This scene takes place sometime relatively soon after Sulla’s death. Crassus has complicated feelings about it, Caesar less so. Veni, vidi, vici, baby!

Here’s a bonus thing that I keep thinking about with them.

The Roman Revolution, Ronald Syme

like, utang na loob. and it is DEEP between them.

#this is actually an old first draft script from a much longer Caesar/Crassus arc I’ve been writing #To go along with the Pompey/Crassus one #Accidentally it’s turned into a whole arc bc why not do the Caesar/Pompey civil war break up while I’m at it #anyway formatting all of this on my iPad was a nightmare no more comics that I have to split up for posting until I get a laptop #tris homines #roman republic tag #komiks tag #drawing tag #there’s a modern gangster AU version of this scene where Crassus and Caesar fuck on the floor in front of Sulla’s funeral portrait #Pompey is there too bc I finally remembered how I was tagging my tris homines live blog and found #The quote comparing the three to some kind of transgressive incestuous relationship. Thank u at my past self for live-blogging that #anyway this was relegated to first draft pits bc Crassus needs to have more bite about it but I wanted to draw them kissing. So. #(Waving a flag) get it caesar #(Bite as in sharp teeth and edges you could cut yourself on if you aren’t careful. Which is why Caesar is Always Very Careful #Pompey’s the opposite about it but I’ll get to those comics. Soon…….hopefully……………..) #gaius julius caesar #marcus licinius crassus

[murdrdocs]

Stepbro!Ethan and Stepsis!Quinn 🤤

How do you think Ethan would act if he found out about Reader and Quinn?

oh he would be pissedddd offf!!! (very very slight dubcon)

mostly because since they were young, he barely had anything to himself. everything that was his also had to be quinns or richies, because they were the golden children and ethan was the nuisance.

so he's finally had this one thing, this special connection, this fated match with his stepsister out of all people and he thinks that this is it. he's dumb, but not dumb enough to not notice how quinn takes a liking to you. of course, at first, he doesn't know it's like that. but he's just so happy that he has a definite stronger connection with you then she does. so he feels like this relationship is retribution for all of the things that quinn has one-upped him in or took from him.

but if/when he finds out ?? he sees a hickey that he definitely didn't give you and when you're accidentally wearing a pair of panties that aren't yours, not even the brand you wear, and he's livid. first, at quinn because of course, she had to take something else from him.

then, he's mad at you. not in the vengeful, almost murderous, way that he's mad at quinn, but in a possessive way. he has you trapped underneath him, forcing you to take when he gives you no matter how much you beg for more or for less. he's trying to convince you to swear that you won't go back to quinn for more, that he can be the only one to touch and feel you. it takes forced orgasms and orgasm denial and so many hickies that it's concerning but you're finally agreeing, dried tears tightening your cheeks and fresh ones already doing the same.

of course, to quinn, this is a sibling battle. civil war in the bailey household.

#modern day civil war #stepbro!ethan #stepsis!quinn #ethan landry x reader #ethan landry smut #ethansworld! #celeste writes scream #quinnsworld! #quinn bailey x reader #quinn bailey smut

[hexagr]

Lately, I've been reading about Sumer, Egypt, Assyria, Asia, Greece, and various early human civilizations. In the past, the general notion of 'religion' once entwined art, science, and ethics. That is to say that religion has, by and large, been a quasi-unifying way of viewing nature as one dynamic, connected thing.

Modernity seems to have abstractly tried to separate these ideas and isolate them into their own realms, as if they exist independently of one another.

This is kind of ironic. Because today we know from both physics and plain observation that ideas and things are interconnected. Denying this is absurd.

Knowledge itself, like great art and science, is often forged through great adversity. This is counter-intuitively good. One can get an understanding of a culture from how its inhabitants view both its ancestors and the hard-earned knowledge that's been passed down from generation to generation. Or, failing that, inquiring about where, exactly, it gets its knowledge from.

And physical and spiritual traits tend to be entwined, too (medical issues aside). One tends to accompany the other. For example, traits at a spiritual and metaphysical level get reflected at the object level. Thus, we can observe that the morals or values of a culture are sometimes reflected in the outward appearances, behaviors, and artistic creations of the people. Many of these principles are surprisingly generalizable.

A culture is the sum of this and more. Categories of things like these can reveal how a culture organizes itself. How it reproduces itself—not just sexually but memetically. It's customs and practices. How it records itself, thinks of itself, and artistically expresses itself. And what it permits and forbids.

Religion is like culture. And culture is almost indistinguishable from religion.

The main difference, I think, is that religion is encompassing in the sense that it has functionally served as a container for science, art, and itself for much of history.

In this way, religion is like an overarching organic structure that has served various functions in structuring ideas as well as social order.

Furthermore, every culture and subculture is a sort of quasi-religion, even if it doesn't explicitly identify as one.

Some claim that we have transcended religion, that we have eclipsed the past, and that we have left even our primitive shadows behind. But I don't think this is true at all.

It's religion all the way down. We still worship; we still play primal games; and we still play with fire and blood, albeit in different ways. It's just today that we're a primitive culture of Simians with computers. Some might say we are savage robots.

Others assert we are more highly evolved and know more today than ever before. And maybe, in some ways, we do know more. But in some other ways, it seems we have forgotten many of the obvious things that we once knew.

*This post is not a claim that religion is intrinsically good. It's an observation that religion is organic—and that in the spirit of functionalism, it served a purpose—that it was once (and still is, to some extent) a container for many things. But knowledge, science, ethics, and so on are collectively dynamic and evolving things. And we can all agree that nobody would want to live in a universe where people are put to death for wearing the wrong clothes or some other frivolous triviality. To say that humanity was completely better off at some point in the ancient past is blasphemy against human progress.

[slut4-haydenchristensen]

gaz: we should settle this like civilized adults

soap: i agree

gaz: so, a rap battle?

soap: a rap battle.

#spoiler alert: they are NOT civilized adults #source: incorrectquotesmcu on tumblr #john soap mactavish #johnny soap mactavish #soap cod #kyle gaz garrick #gaz cod #incorrect call of duty quotes #call of duty modern warfare #cod mw2

[gods-favorite-autistic]

People who are like “Omg gen z theatre kids only know *proceeds to list every single musical that came out after 1999*” are the most annoying assholes like hey maybe we just don’t like shit from the 1960’s or we have specific tastes have you ever considered that

#something can be said for people who are like annoyed with people who only know like Hamilton and heathers and ast like they know everything #but they’ll be like ‘gen z only knows Hadestown six bmc deh wicked in the heights heathers rtc-‘ #like just say you don’t like modern musicals and move on??? #they completely forget that like with different eras you’re gonna get different styles #like of course some people only like musicals from the past two decades that’s just their style #same with people who only like classics #people do this shit with everything like #you know what pop culture is right #could you imagine if we did this shit with like regular music #no shit saw someone say something ab people who only Hamilton and heathers and people were in the comments making whole ass lists and like #SOMEONE SAID LES MIS. THATS ISNT EVEN A POPULAR MODERN MUSICAL AT THIS POINT ITS JUST A CLASSIC #LIKE THAT MUSICAL CAME OUT IN 1980 AND THE BOOK IS LIKE OVER 100 #LIKE LES MIS CAME OUT DURING THE CIVIL WAR YOU CANT BE ALL HIGH AND MIGHTY AB IT NOT BEING SOPHISTICATED ENOUGH FOR YOU #sorry for ranting tiktok pissed me off #but didn’t we literally go through this on tumblr in the 2010’s? #I thought we all agreed that was horrible and to not do that again but like when has tiktok ever learned from tumblrs mistakes #madurday night live #musicals #musical theatre

[herebecritters]

Messes - 3-

Hopps - @ickyguts teehee

#happy tree friends #htf #htf be brave #htf geshtu #htf hopps #hopptu #they are both so clueless #this is probably only a few months into Geshtu becoming a regular at the bar #also alcohol makes Geshtu more likely to engage in bein a little silly™️ #but he has developed a fondness for this mortal informant #he has been learning much about the modern day civilization though…very informative #he’s missed so much while in hiding #perhaps this is why Theia sent him here #he’s not complaining of course #he’s worked hard for 66 million years it’s about time he got to take it easy from time to time #the defenses are breaking down

[dayurno]

any kevjean headcannons to share?

yes YES yes

i think jean is one of the few people (among neil, and occasionally andrew) who can actually make kevin laugh. he has very dry and dark humor and during their time at evermore he would often try to make kevin crack up during tetsuji's long team-wide sermons

they're one of the very few aftg ships i actually see doing the whole marriage thing. but saying marriage wouldn't be right either, because what they actually do is elope, and andrew was Very Mad when he found out

they have very intimate knowledge of each other's bodies! and yes, in the sexual sense, but i also mean this in a clinical way too. kevin specifically knows what its like to stitch jean's skin together, what pressure points to poke at to make his muscles twitch and relax, the crook of his fingers and the spots where kevin himself has splintered them, where jean aches after practice and what injuries still give him trouble

kevin is remarkably cool and uncaring when it comes to romance. jean is the only partner he's ever had that has made him feel jealous

they're absolutely MONSTROUS as a team!!!! jean does not often hang around the foxes, but the one time he and kevin paired up for beer pong in the foxes' company, they beat everyone else so badly they were disclassified on account of unfair privilege

they never truly lose that raven hivemind with each other, but it's not in the way you'd think. it's not hard to catch them doing or saying the exact same thing at the exact same time, sharing a task meant for one between the two of them, completing each other's sentences. yes it's scary. yes they're horror movie twins

they! can! only! play! piano! with! four! hands!

jean never actually gets along with wymack. as in-laws they're terrible. they can stand each other at their best, but can't be kept in the same room for long. this is not for any particular grudge; their personalities just clash. hence the elopement.

jean is very large but he is used to crouching down to make himself look smaller. this often ends with kevin patting his head absent-mindedly when he does something he approves of. even after jean loses the habit of trying to look shorter, he still lowers himself for the headpats

i have more but i will abstain because i just realized how long this is. theyre so crazy though. literally insane people. they make andreil look normal and well-adjusted

#asks #kevjean #I ALSO THINK theyre one of those couples people get SICK of #like you will third wheel. and it will be so bad. they have no actual friends that can stand being with the two of them at the same time #except for jeremy #also the jealousy thing for kevin is so real. hes glaring hes holding jeans shoulder hes biting your hand hes not being civil about it #theyre like an insane couple for more reasons than one but #if they were more average people and living in the modern world #jean would be one of those accounts on tumblr that post shit like Man i love him so much i need to be his dog #do you understand. hes logging in every day to talk about how he needs to be leashed and collared immediately by his crush

[the-masked-artist05]

Today I offer you another hairstyle and earrings I made for Orion. Tomorrow, who knows? (Hopefully a proper drawing or something since I finally have some free time for once.)

Previously version is under the cut. Let me know what you think!

#art #my art #digital art #oc #my oc #sda #orion evander #im doing research on native american tribes (specifically the Lakota) #so im trying my best to get it right #for both Nyx and Orion #for context Orion has more modern styles and is influenced by other cultures and trends (especially since he is born in the modern day) #Nyx on the other hand was born during the 1800s and tends to have a bit more traditional values despite being raised by only one individual #and was not in constant contact with any human civilization growing up #the individual in question was not human and not of their and the others' universe #but yeah im still working on it and things are subject to change nonetheless #i wouldn't mind getting some feedback or advice on stuff like this btw (it would help a lot actually)

[compacflt]

wip wednesday: made a HUGE amount of progress this week (for context—purple is unfinished & yellow is finished; last week all of them were purple) … i am in the home stretch here

#and then… it will be time for me to say goodbye i think #some darkstar politics in here #driven by an essay I read last year titled tinted blue: Air Force culture & American civil-military relations #everyone has a different idea of what modern warfare will look like #1 & 2 are from the same section obviously… i just think it’s interesting #& i wrote elsewhere in may maybe that ice & mav would be on opposite sides of this debate #ice with his big picture managerial perspective… it’s good for warfare… mav with his specialist pilot loyalty POV #obviously their conversation predates the russia-ukraine war which has shown drone warfare in its fullest to date potential #4. is… idk. does it help to tell you it takes place in 2014? #3. * #pete maverick mitchell #tom iceman kazansky #icemav #top gun #top gun maverick #top gun fanfiction #sorry for the like defense ethics conversations if that’s boring #i just think that stuff is philosophically so interesting