#Civilization

[mirrutatep]

Notre Dame

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[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Nicolas de Largillière (French, 1656-1746) Portrait of A Lady, Late 1690-s Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

[not-your-asian-fantasy]

What an absolutely fucked thing to do, he made multiple attempts knowing that the community is against this. Not to mention that the Sentinelese had killed someone who did this in 2018 and the police just went 🤷🏻‍♀️

[foone]

it's interesting how everyone calls out factorio for having the "don't forget to watch out for the natives!" line, but the Civilization series has always had the idea that there are "uncivilized" tribes randomly arranged around the map who serve no purpose and have no value and must be exterminated or they will continually attack your innocent settlers. it's okay, we called them "barbarians", because clearly some humans are just Orcs without culture who only exist to be killed.

Like, how are these not the same thing? Factorio at least has the weak justification that their natives are bugs who don't show any signs of having sapience, but Civ barbarians build settlements and develop weapons. The game just uses its rules to make it so you can't talk to them, you can only kill them or let them kill you.

Unlike, you know, the named civilizations. Even the most warlike civ in the game can be reasoned with, you can make treaties with a warmonger who is currently building nukes, but these nameless local tribes? they must be wiped out. There is no other option.

[opendirectories]

[erqixi]

Parkour people go brrr

[futurebird]

We think of the big adaptations of human civilization:

farming livestock grain storage irrigation and sewers dense cities multi-story dwellings specialized labor

As achievements of human intelligence and technology. But considering ants have all of these same adaptations maybe they are a function of massive cooperative populations, rather than intelligence.

[gloriousgwendolinechristie]

Gwendoline Christie for Sid Meier’s Civilization VII (2025)

[apesoformythoughts]

"To speak of the Christian heritage of Europe bothers me. And for even greater reason, speaking of “Christian civilization.” Christianity was founded by people who could not have cared less about “Christian civilization.” What interested them was Christ, and the reverberations of his coming on the whole of human existence. Christians believed in Christ, not in Christianity itself; they were Christians, not “Christianists.”

It took centuries to translate Christian reality into institutions. Think of the time it took for the Church to reverse inveterate habits and impose the consent of the engaged couple as the sole indispensable condition for marriage. The famous monogamous marriage that we now call “traditional” was in fact a hard-won innovation. What is really traditional is the contract between two families for an exchange of spouses, whose opinion was seldom asked. Until quite late, so-called “Christian” society regarded with a jaundiced eye those who married—before a priest, to be sure—without consulting father, mother, or the social conventions. In one telling example: when the silk-worker Gonzalo de Yepes married Catalina Alvarez, a poor weaver, for love, his family disowned him. Moreover, when Catalina became a widow, she had to make her way alone to raise her son, later known under the name of St. John of the Cross.

Who can say that Christianity has had the time to translate the totality of its contents into institutions? I have the impression that instead we are still at the beginning stages of Christianity."

— Rémi Brague

[mirrutatep]

Himeji Castle

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[mysharona1987]

I could be wrong here, but is this an admission to war crimes?

That they broadcast on live television.

Oh, right. Why Israel is scared shitless of the UN.

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Luis Paret y Alcázar (Spanish, 1746-1799) Esther faints before Ahasuerus, Detail, 1785 Museu do Caramulo, Portugal

[weirdlookindog]

Eugen von Baumgarten (1865–1919) -‚Civilisation‛

from Jugend #25, 1896

[chinesehanfu]

[Hanfu · 漢服]China's national Important Cultural Relics Impression Series By Artist @陆曼陀

 China Neolithic Period:The Hongshan culture(4700-2900 BC)Relics<玉猪龙/Pig dragon>

China Shang dynasty / Western Zhou dynasty(1200–800 BC) · Shu state Relics < 太阳神鸟金饰/Golden Sun Bird>

China Western Han Dynasty (202 BC – 9 AD)Artifact Relics<长信宫灯/oil lamp in the shape of a kneeling female servant>

After the lamp is lit, the soot enters the base of the palace lantern through the sleeve to achieve the purpose of cleaning the air.

China Eastern Han Dynasty(25–220 AD)Artifact Relics<铜奔马 or the Galloping Horse Treading on a Flying Swallow (馬踏飛燕)>

China Eastern Han Dynasty(25–220 AD) Artifact Relics<摇钱树/Money tree (myth)>

China Tang Dynasty(618–907CE) Artifact Relics<女立俑/Female standing figurine ​​​​>

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China Song Dynasty (960–1279) Painting<千里江山图/A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains>by 王希孟(Wang Ximeng)

China Yuan dynasty (1279–1368) Artifact Relics<霁蓝釉白龙纹梅瓶/Ji blue-glazed plum vase with white dragon pattern>

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[philosophybits]

In the second half of his literary activity Dostoevsky no longer sought for the real fruits of life. There awoke in him the Russian, the elemental man, with a thirst for the miraculous. Compared with what he wanted, the fruits of European civilisation seemed to him trivial, flat, insipid. The age-long civilisation of his neighbours told him that there never had been a miracle, and never would be. But all his being, not yet broken-in by civilisation, craved for the stupendous unknown.

Lev Shestov, All Things Are Possible