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Originally Posted by bm bradley
so you disagree with t sowell's 'conquest and culture' then?
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Honestly, I'm not sure. Determinism is one hell of a line of thinking. I like Jared Diamon's quote from Anna Karenina in "Guns Germs and Steal"--"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way". It is so appropos to this discussion. Determinism kinda takes the wind out of the power of the pecularities that make up history. There's no such thing as inevitability. If you take out one or a few elements and play the historical record's video back, you might just be looking at differing outcomes.