[NON BLOG] Several More Uchronias

[rfmcdonald]

Some items that I forgot to mention from yesterday's gathering:

• The potential for Trudeau, following a sudden conversion, to pioneer neoliberal/Thatcherite thought in mid-1970s Canada.


• pauldrye referred to John Keegan's argument that the conquest of Greece and the Persian Empire by Alexander the Great and the hillpeople of Macedonia would be an achievement roughly comparable to that of the Scots conquering Europe to the Elbe. That is a difficult challenge. It does seem quite possible, though, to either advance Scottish crossbow technology or retard English crossbow technology in order to all Scotland a victory over England.


• schizmatic suggested that a Europe where the Huguenots successfully took over France might be a very dour and reactionary Europe indeed. He raised the spectre of a Calvinist-run Western Christendom meeting a Wahhabi-run dar al-Islam, constituting two mutually genocidal realms united by, among other things, a common death penalty for the possession of musical instruments.