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17446435 No.17446435 [Reply] [Original]

Any books that explain why the 19th century was the absolute peak of human history? I can't imagine a better time to live in, and it all went downhill since then.

>> No.17446439

>>17446435
It was a pretty bad time for everyone outside of Europe

>> No.17446446

>>17446439
It was a pretty bad time for everyone inside of Europe who wasn't rich. They weren't the ones framing the time though, which is why OP thinks it was paradise.

>> No.17446453

>>17446439
Nothing that happened outside Europe mattered at that time. Similar to how now nothing that happens outside America matters. Only one nation matters during every period of history, I'm sorry but your third world country will always be irrelevant.

>> No.17446458

>>17446435
There was a slight counter-Enlightenment romanticism and a wielding of science that wasn't overly detrimental to society yet (whether in the form of war technology or increased methods of industrial control). The art was amazing, the intellectual horizons reached were unparalleled, but rapid industrialization and the "death of God" right around the corner doesn't make it the best period of history in my opinion.

>> No.17446462
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>>17446435
>... the 19th century was the absolute peak of human history[.]
>I can't imagine a better time to live in, and it all went downhill since then.


YOU ARE, EITHER: IGNORANT, OR: DELUSIONAL.

YOUR IMAGINATION MUST BE IN DIRECT CORRELATION WITH YOUR INTELLECTION, AND YOUR DELECTION.

>> No.17446463
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Pic related is a good overview of Europe during that period, both the good and the bad. I wouldn't say it was a great period to live in, but it was certainly an interesting one.

>> No.17446472

>>17446453
>Nothing that happened outside Europe mattered at that time.


YOU ARE AN IDIOT.

>> No.17446478
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>>17446463
My mum's got a copy of this

>> No.17446482

>>17446478
Your mum has good taste

>> No.17446507

>>17446478
Intellectual mother.

>> No.17446515

>>17446439
OP said “human”

>> No.17446536

>>17446458
>There was a slight counter-Enlightenment romanticism...

ROMANTICISM WAS NOT A COUNTERREACTION TOWARD ILLUSTRISM, BUT, RATHER, A DIRECT CONTINUATION OF IT.


>... and a wielding of science that wasn't overly detrimental to society yet (whether in the form of war technology or increased methods of industrial control).

IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, THE ILLUSTRISTIC, ANTISCIENTIFIC SUBSTITUTION OF REASON WITH EXPERIENCE; OF RATIONALISM WITH EMPIRICISM; WAS SYSTEMATIZED.


>The art was amazing...

AMAZINGLY KITSCHY —EXCEPTING MODERNISTIC ART, ALL NINETEENTH CENTURY ART WAS TASTELESSLY IMITATIVE OF «CLASSICAL» GRECOROMAN FORMS.


>... the intellectual horizons reached were unparalleled...

HA HA.

>> No.17446541

>>17446435
Hm no internet, unironically a retard