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				Culture War Roundup for the week of October 12, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Again, a very specific Arab flaw. I'm not even a particularly big fan of Arabs personally, the Eastern ones lucked out with oil and now seem to think they rule the place, while in reality they aren't any different to Algerians or Tunisians or Libyans, some more humility from them would be very welcome.




I'm not sure that's fair; the record of countries discovering massive amounts of natural resource wealth and using it to improve the lives of their citizens seems mixed at best (Iraq, Venezuela, and Iran come immediately to mind). I think places like the UAE and Bahrain deserve some credit.


I'm interested in you saying you're not huge on Arabs though. Am I correct that this is a minority view among non-Arab Muslims? My sense was that Arabs are basically the most admired ethnic group among Muslims, being the progenitors of the religion, the Quran being written in Arabic, and so on.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for October 18, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Fire and Blood, by George R R Martin. Being a fan of ASOIAF from back in the day and having mostly enjoyed the first three seasons of House of the Dragon I figured I'd give the source material a go.


It's basically good, but the main problem with dragons in Martin's world is that they're so overpowered that they basically ruin any storyline they come into contact with. The only thing that actually makes the civil war that HOTD adapts work is that both sides have them. Aegon's conquest, for instance, basically felt like one case after another of "Lord such-and-such all his nobles gathered the greatest host anyone had ever seen and marched against Aegon who promptly burned them all with his dragons until they surrendered".


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for October 18, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It's not exactly the same as what you're asking, but I'm very sad knowing we'll (likely) never know anything about the vast, vast majority of human languages that have ever been spoken. It'd be incredible to know exactly how Proto-Indo-European sounded, what other language families it was related to (did it share a common ancestor with Proto-Finno-Urgic?), whether the Altaic hypothesis in any of its forms really is correct, and so on.