Archimedes' treatise on steam powered and geared mechanical devices, written circa 250 BC, destroyed at Alexandria (along with many other things) in 48 BC.
This is why we didn't start to live like the Jetson's 2,000 years ago...
True story.
Having thus excluded conversation and desisted from study, he had neither business nor amusement. His ideas, therefore, being neither renovated by discourse nor increased by reading, wore gradually away, till at last his anger congealed into madness.
"People sometimes say that today's ascendant far-right isn't fascism, because its ideology sometimes differs from that of mid-20th-century fascism.
But the ideology of mid-20th-century fascism *contradicted itself*, as it moved the goalposts around in service of the only thing it truly cares about: the dominance of the privileged group.
Fascism is a politics of chauvinism. Everything else is just window dressing to justify the chauvinism and give it a veneer of intellectual legitimacy. The details can and will be revised as expediency demands."
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