I really love anything that reminds me of a time and place in which the centre of the world was basically everything including and west of Türkiye, and everything east of western China.
YES! I am obsessed with the area I think of as the Silk Roads world--the area around the Mediterranean over to the edges of China. From ancient times up till the Renaissance, basically. This sweeping area where people were swapping ideas and goods and religions! It's so cool to me!
She's a textbook example of a very clever person, incredibly perceptive about some issues (i.e. the global interconnectedness of right-wing authoritarianism) so trapped by certain biases and ideological frameworks that she's incapable of seeing past them.
As frustrating as they are, I sometimes appreciate encountering these people because they remind me to think about what my biases are. But gosh they're so irritating to read!
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YES! I am obsessed with the area I think of as the Silk Roads world--the area around the Mediterranean over to the edges of China. From ancient times up till the Renaissance, basically. This sweeping area where people were swapping ideas and goods and religions! It's so cool to me!
She's a textbook example of a very clever person, incredibly perceptive about some issues (i.e. the global interconnectedness of right-wing authoritarianism) so trapped by certain biases and ideological frameworks that she's incapable of seeing past them.
As frustrating as they are, I sometimes appreciate encountering these people because they remind me to think about what my biases are. But gosh they're so irritating to read!