The Off Topic Topic

[The Brain]

Your Result: Junto Whig

77%

You are a courtly Whig corruptionist who is keen on the Protestant Succession and War with France, but mostly what you care about is exercising power in a highly disciplined way: you're a manager and a power-broker, more interested in your own personal gain and power than principle. What is convenient to the Whigs' chances of holding power - like the Act of Union - is convenient for you. You are also pretty handy at raising a loan to fund the standing armies and corrupt pensions and places that you are so keen on. Examples: Somers, Wharton, Russell, Montagu, Walpole etc

71%
Court - Non-Aligned

57%
Moderate Hanoverian Tory

46%
High Church Tory Partisan

45%
Country Whig

41%
Whig Commonwealthman

22%
Backswoodman Country Tory

0%
Jacobite Crypto-Papist

[Sheilbh]

Same result for me.

Given that as a imaginary XVIIIth century Spaniard, when answering these questions my agenda was to undermine English power from within, maybe you might want to rethink your position though. 

Well it turns out that in 18th Century England being a crypto-Papist outweighs most other considerations.

[Syt]

[Grey Fox]

Kind of accurate.

[Syt]

Speaking of, who would be the last writer who had a major influence on a young generation? Besides JK Rowling.

Alternatively, what are the counter cultures of today, and how are the ypropagated?

[The Brain]

Always the jazz maniacs.

[Legbiter]

Excavation of a former German field cemetary on the Eastern Front a few months ago. Very interesting process.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym8GN0NUXCo&t=1s

[Josquius]

Speaking of, who would be the last writer who had a major influence on a young generation? Besides JK Rowling.

Alternatively, what are the counter cultures of today, and how are the ypropagated?

Before Rowling you mean?
RL Stein?
At the same time/after her?... Hunger Games person?

[Syt]

Speaking of, who would be the last writer who had a major influence on a young generation? Besides JK Rowling.

Alternatively, what are the counter cultures of today, and how are the ypropagated?

Before Rowling you mean?
RL Stein?
At the same time/after her?... Hunger Games person?

I threw in Rowling for giggles.

I meant writers who influenced youth counter culture.

[Sheilbh]

I think Rowling's not a bad shout in fairness. All the people making references to Dumbledore's Army on their protest signs. I mean it's cringe as fuck, but she's had influence.

I always think of that John Cage line from the 80s-90s, "We live in a time not of mainstream but of many streams, or even, if you insist upon a river of time, then we have come to the delta, maybe even beyond a delta to an ocean which is going back to the skies." I think we are now beyond the delta: there is no clearly distinguished mainstream or counter-cultural streams, just the ocean and the skies.

I think people are more comfortable and able to define themselves and need to use their cultural consumption as less of a synecdoche for themselves and a declaration of their role. Which maybe allows them to be - in the best way possible - a bit more shallow in their consumption, picking the elements they like and skimming across the various currents. I certainly see far less rigid policing of style/cultural borders than I did when I was young (and I think that was far less intense than it was, say, in the late 70s-early 80s with punk etc).

[mongers]

I went to college with Mary, Lord Beaulieu's daughter; can you believe it, there was a time in England when some nobility sent there children to state schools. 

[Monoriu]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36UrLDiTLvU

Not sure if this has been posted before.  But this guy's videos are simply epic.  He animated the entire WWII Eastern Front.  This time he animated France 1940.  I learn a lot more about these wars from his videos. 

[Sheilbh]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36UrLDiTLvU

Not sure if this has been posted before.  But this guy's videos are simply epic.  He animated the entire WWII Eastern Front.  This time he animated France 1940.  I learn a lot more about these wars from his videos.

"In 1939, Germany found itself in a war with Britain and France"

[mongers]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36UrLDiTLvU

Not sure if this has been posted before.  But this guy's videos are simply epic.  He animated the entire WWII Eastern Front.  This time he animated France 1940.  I learn a lot more about these wars from his videos.

"In 1939, Germany found itself in a war with Britain and France"

It was an accident waiting to happen.

[The Brain]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36UrLDiTLvU

Not sure if this has been posted before.  But this guy's videos are simply epic.  He animated the entire WWII Eastern Front.  This time he animated France 1940.  I learn a lot more about these wars from his videos.

"In 1939, Germany found itself in a war with Britain and France"

Yes? My understanding is that Germany didn't hope for the war against Poland to lead to war with the West.