Steppe nomads
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Steppe nomads is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between May 04, 2022 and November 14, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as ““Steppe nomads. Horse archers. The Eurasian hordes.””; “Vikings and steppe nomads and Spartans”. It most often appears alongside 1 Corinthians 6, 1000, 1200.
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- Category: Concepts
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: May 04, 2022
- Last seen: November 14, 2024
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- 1 Corinthians 6 (1 shared issues)
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- 1000 (1 shared issues)
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- 1200 (1 shared issues)
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- 1400 (1 shared issues)
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- 1650 (1 shared issues)
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- 400 AD (1 shared issues)
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- 700 (1 shared issues)
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- Amazon (1 shared issues)
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- America (1 shared issues)
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- Amida Buddha (1 shared issues)
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- Artemision (1 shared issues)
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- Avars (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
“Steppe nomads. Horse archers. The Eurasian hordes.”
“Exactly! With modern technology, the next time could be so much worse! Usually the steppe nomads are limited to a small fringe around the steppe where they can still graze their horses. But with modern logistics, you can get horse food basically anywhere. There’s no limit to how far the next steppe confederation could get. That’s why I think this is a true existential risk, not just another 5 - 10% of the world’s population like usual.”
“I was going to say that with modern technology, it just doesn’t seem like steppe nomads should be such a problem any more.”
I admit these people’s position makes rational sense. But on the deepest level, I don’t believe it. There was an old 2010s meme video about all the characters in all the comics and TV shows fighting, and in the end the one who came out on top was “Mr. Rogers, in a bloodstained sweater”. Human history is the cosmic version of that meme. After all the Vikings and steppe nomads and Spartans have had their way with each other, the leading ideology of the 21st century thus far appears to be a hyper-Christian bleeding-heart liberalism: COOPERATE-BOT in a bloodstained sweater. I don’t know why this keeps happening, but I wouldn’t count it out.
Inline links: an old 2010s meme video