Thursday, January 28, 2010

Review of "The Arabian Nights Entertainments"

Wikipedia has a lot on this book. I don’t have a lot to say on it, other than to point out that the Arab world has been in an incredible decline for a long time. I what the HBD explanation for the decline of the Arabs is? Their clearly not stupid and they were responsible for many technological and intellectual advances for centuries. Then they completely stopped doing anything productive. It seems like even those of us who put emphasis on genetics would have to recognize the importance of culture when it comes to explaining how messed up Arab civilization (what’s left of it) is.

[Via http://foseti.wordpress.com]

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