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@vitalis ... explain yourself...

On the bright side, we've been slowly over the past few centuries selected for obedience and herd behaviour. This is a selection event undoing all of that work.

The survivors of this cataclysm will be the most distrustful of authority and willing to rebel.

In any healthy nation young men are willing to put their life in danger to fight for their community because they know that if they survive they'll have women throwing themselves at them and if they don't their memory will be cherished by their family.

Instead we have families falling over themselves to turn them in the moment they show the slightest bit of backbone.

This image gets worse and worse the longer I look at it...

@vitalis

#france

Turns out the sun king was a scenary builder

There's about only about 4,000 inuit women in greenland of marriagable age. Even if you bleached the entire population most americans aren't getting an inuit gf.

Link?

@Rose

So sm0rt! 🐮 🧠

Fading also happens from washing and being in the rain.

And when they were at home... sure they probably wouldn't have worn their best tabard out every time they went hunting, but on campaign they would have worn them any day they could reasonably expect a battle.

Also dyes back then often weren't as colour-fast as they are now and detergents weren't as gentle.

Sorry, forgot she paywalls old articles. Here's an archive link.

Her point is that they did used to brightly dye and embroider their clothes, but that their clothes were hard-used and probably faded and wore out quite quickly.

https://archive.is/p8b5d

As always, there's a kulak essay for that...

https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/no-medieval-armies-didnt-look-like?utm_source=publication-search