Bret Campbell

Just another malfunctioning robot, stochastically assembled by an unfeeling universe from the cosmic wisps of cadaverous starstuff. Or maybe a Boltzmann Brain.

[Bret Campbell @BretCampbell]

@fakehistoryhunt The term is definitely used misleadingly at times, but I don’t understand the urge to expunge it from our vocabulary entirely, especially regarding its usage in contexts like the collapse of Roman Britain or post-Gothic-War Italy.

[Bret Campbell @BretCampbell]

@Danthedrive75 @fakehistoryhunt There are few sources for the period in question, but there are even fewer for preceding periods. Classical Greek and Roman sources are few and far between, but the best of them are truly magnificent. There’s certainly a perceived quality gap, but this may also result from bias.

[Bret Campbell @BretCampbell]

@PerAhlberg1 @fakehistoryhunt I agree. The term “Dark Ages” makes a degree of sense from an Anglo-centric perspective, and that’s probably the context that many people still use it in. The problem is over-generalizing that perspective.

[Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill]

"Either the thing is true, or it isn't. If it is true, you should believe it, and if it isn't, you shouldn't."

– Bertrand Russell

[Bret Campbell @BretCampbell]

@ActualAurochs Great specimen. Is there a date for it? Or does this fall into the Hallstatt plateau uncertainty?

[Scott Greenfield @ScottGreenfield]

Of the many things I admire about @CathyYoung63, I most admire her willingness to take on the most fraught subjects and deal with them with brutal honesty and accuracy.

And she does it again "sorting out the Florida-teaching-about-slavery mess."
https://t.co/Z6oRqVil0s

[Bret Campbell @BretCampbell]

@wolftivy See, I thought you were referencing the Bene Gesserit and was riffing off of that.

[Bret Campbell @BretCampbell]

@wolftivy But not those of Shai Hulud.

[Bret Campbell @BretCampbell]

@wolftivy And by anti-technological means, we mean drugs. Mystical desert space drugs. Lots of them…

[Bret Campbell @BretCampbell]

This study is a good indicator of how awful the pop philosophy and pop psychology can be. Thought systems that have had the actual wisdom watered out of them do more harm than good.

If you want to be a sage, you have to do the work: reading and practice.

https://t.co/i38LuMybg4

[Bret Campbell @BretCampbell]

@aleksil79 True. The existence of that perspective kind of proves your point!

[Bret Campbell @BretCampbell]

Happy 4th, everyone.

https://t.co/OU5KR4DUYD

[Vivid Void @vividvoid]

gm

[Bret Campbell @BretCampbell]

@JeremyFowkes @BhattiQaisra @wartranslated Yes. As frequently as they offer nuclear threats at the Kremlin, it’s difficult for me to believe that there weren’t any being made in this case.

[Bret Campbell @BretCampbell]

@Varangian_Tagma @mikeduncan There are certainly more parallels to the late Republic than to late antiquity, but one should always be cautious in drawing these kinds of comparisons. Some of the most important elements present during the Roman revolutionary period are conspicuously absent now.

[Bret Campbell @BretCampbell]

@mikeduncan Maybe he saw that Musk tweet about Sulla and decided to accept the challenge.

[James Medlock @jdcmedlock]

This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in many American cities.

[Bret Campbell @BretCampbell]

@sfmcguire79 Fairy tales can come true.
It can happen to you.
If you’re young at heart…

https://t.co/i2snhqcO9N

[Bret Campbell @BretCampbell]

@olivertraldi