On Tue, 05 Nov 2019 08:02:24 -0800, pyotr filipivich
wrote:

who worked with their hands anyway, were mostly into working on thier
cars and motorcycles. The only woodworkers I met were pros."

There are a whole lot of cultural reasons, as you point out. The
difference between the Aristocracy and "Trade" goes way back. And
while his Lordship might take up woodturning as a hobby, it was not
something "serious". This was prevalent even in the late 1800s: the
British boffins would discover a means to make an artificial fibre,
dye, "thing", but it would be the Germans who created an industry.
Research and the pursuit of Science was a noble thing. Making money
from it was just so, so, well, it just wasn't seemly.
Which is why so many British aristocratic family had American
daughters in law. With the bride came the money to keep the family
estates.

Anyway, this still doesn't explain how so many Englishmen got
wealthy "in trade" making steel, coal, cloth, etc, etc, and other
parts of the world didn't. "Culture" explains some of it, but that is
a very large tent.
The question comes: why did (the English especially) Western
Europe get not just the "science" but the technological advances?
Starting with gun-powder. The Chinese had it, but firearms never
became "big".

The Brits were very big contributors to science and technology up to
the end of the Great War. Radio, medical technology, radar,
microwaves, internal combustion engines in new ways and materials
workings. There are 83 different thread types in the British
inventory..pipe threads, nut and bolt threads, steam and gas threads
etc etc. From the Victorian age right through 1918 and the loss of a
SIGNIFICANT number of their boffins who got themselves killed in
France..many of who left no children to pass along their genes. Those
that did..managed to make enough children to die in Dunkirk, El
Alamein, the far East and of course..Europe. That has really..really
hurt the British gene pool. It left the halt, the lame, the stupid and
the moronic alive to breed. And thats largely what makes up the
British gene pool today, sadly. It will take another 100 yrs or more
to build up good genes. In earlier times..the survivors of English
wars were the smart, the quick and the nimble. With the Maxim Gun,
came indistriminate slaughter and a hidieous culling of the
adventureous.

Gunner
__

"Poor widdle Wudy...mentally ill, lies constantly, doesnt know who he is, or even what gender "he" is.

No more pathetic creature has ever walked the earth. But...he is locked into a mental hospital for the safety of the public.

Which is a very good thing."

Asun rauhassa, valmistaudun sotaan.


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