Ancient modern history dates back to ancient Greece? Mhe... when great Greek cholars like Thales, Hippocrates, Pythagoras, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle arrived in Egypt the great pyramids of Egypt where already ancient.
Perhaps that may be why the Greeks accorded the Egyptians a great respect for their antiquity.
Why the need to discount the Greeks?
The Greeks invented the philosophical, naturalistic way of thinking that is the foundation of modern science. Other great civilizations existed; but outside of a few relatively isolated instances of inspired thinkers, their investigations of the natural world were mostly pragmatic, and they never even thought to be
objective. Insofar as is known to history, only the Greeks developed a trend toward doing what later became
science and moreover, doing it for its own sake. Thus, the modern world does indeed descend from the Greeks.
Without the Greeks, you would not now have the Internet with which to make that post, and there would be no TV and smartphones... Wait, now I hate the Greeks. Damn it, they also invented democracy. Lunatics. The ancient Egyptians, Hindus, and Chinese were much wiser and moreover,
saner!I love history it gets really crazy the more i search.
Most of what you think you know about history is wrong.
Thats not personal. It is just a general observation. Most of what people believe to be history is fake news, either twisted or just made up by somebody with an agenda somewhere along the linethe Bible being only the worst and most notorious example. Indeed, if you want a neat demonstration of just how bad the problem is, peruse the idiot-bait on Wikipedia and follow the verifiable citations to so-called scholars who crank out arrant nonsense supporting or investigating the historicity of completely fictional stories.
I wrote the foregoing yesterday, but did not consider it to be finished. I have not edited it, because I really think its done now:
in his worldwide bestseller "Sapiens - A brief history of humankind" (which is a great book, that I can deeply recommend, even for historians) Harari explains why our ability to cooperate with strangers to build kingdoms and other large entities was an important driving force of history. shared beliefs (or intersubjective truths) like religions and money were the tools humans used to cooperate. progress was happening but was relatively slow. then came the invention of limited corporations (yet another shared belief/intersubjective truth) a few hundred years ago. since then we treat limited corporations as legal entities that can be sued and held liable for their actions/products. (before that the liability was always on the founder/owner and that crippled any progress for millennia.) Harari argues that it was the invention of limited companies that brought all the economic progress of the last couple of hundred years. he writes it was capitalism via limited companies, technology and science that were the main driving forces.
Nice narrative. And another case in point.
Ironically, just now when I saw this, I was writing a condemnation of Globalist Capitalismanother guise of International Communism, with stock market enterprises who own the State in lieu of State-owned enterprises.
Highlighting has been very purposefully selected, word by word. The tail wagging this historical dog has been underlined.