RE: The only woman to win the Fields Medal was a Muslim
April 12, 2018 at 5:52 pm
(This post was last modified: April 12, 2018 at 5:59 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
The contribution of the umma to modern society is the transmission of classical western culture..back to westerners, who'd lost their minds in the intervening centuries. Atlas "perspective", otoh, is propaganda he's been fed since birth about a legendary muslim kingdom that never existed. Which is ironic...because the product of that theft was written into his own magic book. He outta know.
If I had a time machine, I'd have no problem shaking some 7th century arabs hand and saying "hey buddy, thanks for holding our shit for us - and btw, watch your back..because we aren't gonna be overly grateful about it in a few years". I only pushback on Atlas because he;s under the impression that the arabs who swept across the med and africa were somehow a greater and more intellectual society than they were...when the truith is that their greatest exertion came in the form of counting horses barefoot while vassal states did the heavy mental lifting. Hell..it was pagans what wrote the first islamic magic book.......
We've all been there....and it's important to acknowledge that fact.
If I had a time machine, I'd have no problem shaking some 7th century arabs hand and saying "hey buddy, thanks for holding our shit for us - and btw, watch your back..because we aren't gonna be overly grateful about it in a few years". I only pushback on Atlas because he;s under the impression that the arabs who swept across the med and africa were somehow a greater and more intellectual society than they were...when the truith is that their greatest exertion came in the form of counting horses barefoot while vassal states did the heavy mental lifting. Hell..it was pagans what wrote the first islamic magic book.......
We've all been there....and it's important to acknowledge that fact.
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