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Gwydion Madawc Williams

Who I am and some of what I've done in my life

  • 00) Main Menu
  • 10) Human Biological History
    • And So Say All of Me
    • Blond Hair Occurred at least Twice
    • Chimp DNA Changed More Than Ours
    • Chimps Are Never Tame
    • Cooking Made Us Human
    • Dark Skin, Blue Eyes – the Original Europeans
    • Gifts Close to Madness?
    • Human Altruism and Psycopathy
    • Letter About Memes
    • Mice more evolved than humans
    • Natural Selection as ‘Survival of the Grandkids’
    • Rational Chimps, Hobbits and Starch-Eating Humans
    • Superorganisms – Ant Nests and Human Religions
    • The ‘White Race’ does not exist
    • The Usefulness of Group Thinking
    • Why Motherhood was Created by Natural Selection
    • Why Only Some Children Bounce Back From Bad Childhoods
  • 15) Other Science
    • Big fierce animals are losers
    • Blog on Science
    • Constellations – a Human Invention
    • Does Physics Find Only Holes Within Holes?
    • Evolution Prevented By Competition
    • Fearsome dinosaur-eating mammals (deceased)
    • Humans On A Cosmic Scale
    • Lovelock’s Gaia Hypothesis as Rehashed Religion
    • Physics and the Nature of Reality
    • Schrodinger and Cheshire Cats
    • Should We Fear Alien Civilisations?
    • The Decline of US Science
    • The Large Hadron Collider in 2008
    • The Unexpected Muon
  • 20) British History
    • Arkwright and the rise of the factory system
    • Being An Aboriginal European
    • Britain’s Mixed Feelings About Hitler in the 1930s
    • British Democracy Began in 1884
    • Coleridge’s Alternative for British Capitalism
    • Edmund Burke’s Beliefs
    • Mary Tudor and Elizabeth – almost a beautiful story
    • Petty Describing Real Capitalism
    • Race & Reformist Rioting – Brixton 1987
    • Rival British Christianities of the 17th Century
  • 25) World History
    • Agnes Smedley and China’s 1930s Red Army
    • Agnes Smedley in the Sino-Japanese War
    • Celtic, Germanic, Multicultural
    • Civilisation Alley
    • Crusaders, Nomads and Conquistadors
    • Deaths Caused by Hitler
    • Falsehoods in ‘Seven Years in Tibet’
    • Hitler – the 13th Chancellor
    • Israel Taking Too Much
    • Memories of the Opium Wars
    • Nation States existed long before the Peace of Westphalia
    • The invention of agriculture and cities
    • The original guerillas of Spain
    • The Truth of Troy
    • Traditional China Resisted Modernisation.
    • What If the Russian Revolution Hadn’t Happened?
    • Why The Ming Sea Voyages Led To Nothing
    • Woodrow Wilson’s Deceptive ’14 Points’
  • 30) Human Dynamics
    • ‘Everyone’ and ‘Anyone’ are Rival Simplifications of Human Nature
    • ASCII – an Unhappy Legacy for Computers
    • Baby Boomers to Blame?
    • Behind every Great Man there’s a Great Ape
    • Business Success a Mix of Skill and Luck
    • Don’t Confuse Mao with Mao
    • Don’t Speak of Cold Misty Mountains
    • Is Giftedness Tied to Cultural Values?
    • Market Minorities Across the World
    • Months in English – an Odd History
    • Must We Have the Profit Motive?
    • References on Green Issues
    • Secret Internets and Gullible Fools
    • Western Influence Failing Globally
    • Why ‘The Individual’ is a muddled idea
  • 35) Politics
    • Anti-Capitalist, For What?
    • Awed by the Amazing Twentieth?
    • Democracy and one-party states
    • Fear of Socialism by the Labour Defectors
    • How John Stewart Mill twisted the idea of liberty
    • How National Economies Really Grow
    • Thatcher struck at the roots of Britishness
    • The Original Conspiracy Theory
    • What Was The Minimum for Sovereign States?
    • Why Profit Needn’t Mean Wealth Creation
  • 37) Adam Smith Misled Us
    • Adam Smith and the New Right
    • Adam Smith Faked His Most Famous Claim
    • Anti-Capitalist, For What?
    • Arkwright – How Money Conquered Work
    • Coleridge’s Alternative for the British Economy
    • Corporations Are Against Individualism
    • Economics is About People, Not Money
    • How Real Economic Growth Was Not Based on Adam Smith’s Ideas
    • The Core Falsehood of Capitalist Economics
    • The Mixed Economy Won the Cold War
    • The Original Conspiracy Theory (Which Didn’t Include Jews)
    • William Petty Describing Real Capitalism
  • 40) Against globalisation
    • Anti-Globalisation in 2001
    • Business Success a Mix of Skill and Luck
    • Chinese Politics Working Well
    • Degraded Globalisation
    • Ha-Joon Chang’s “23 Things They Don’t Tell You about Capitalism”
    • How Everything Changed in 1979
    • How Roosevelt’s New Deal Saved the West
    • How the British Empire Blighted Britain
    • Market Minorities Across the World
    • Money and Gun-Power – Globalisation as it is
    • Steven Pinker Misunderstands the Enlightenment
    • Thatcher struck at the roots of Britishness
    • The Anglosphere in 2004
    • The Internet as Secret Policeman’s Friend
    • The Left Redefined ‘The Normal’
    • The Unnatural Nature of Commerce
    • The Web Is Always Insecure
    • The World After 9/11
    • The World as a Global Night-Club
    • Why ‘The Individual’ is a muddled idea
    • Why All Freedom Includes Limits
    • Yeltsin’s Final Election and the Near-Return of the Russian Communists
  • 45) Why Humans Make Religion
    • C S Lewis as hypocrite
    • Religions as Imperfect Human Understanding
  • 50) Literature, Film and Art
    • Book Covers
    • Bulstrode: the Complexities of English Hypocracy
    • Mark Twain, The Unfunny Underside
    • Mary Shelley’s misinterpreted Frankenstein
    • Minterism: an English Vanity
    • Orwell Looking Down on British Workers
  • 55) Tolkien
    • 000) Lord of the Rings, Chapter by Chapter
      • 101) Opening, and A Long-Expected Party
      • 102) The Shadow of the Past
      • 103) Three is Company
      • 104) A Short Cut to Mushrooms
      • 105) A Conspiracy Unmasked
      • 106) The Old Forest
      • 107) In the House of Tom Bombadil
      • 108) Fog on the Barrow-downs
      • 109) At the Sign of The Prancing Pony
      • 110) Strider
      • 111) A Knife in the Dark
      • 112) Flight to the Ford
      • 170) When Would Normal Gold Melt?
      • 180) Gandalf, Rings and Ringwraiths
      • 201) Many Meetings
      • 202) The Council of Elrond
      • 203) The Ring Goes South
      • 204) A Journey in the Dark
      • 205) The Bridge of Khazad-dûm
      • 206) Lothlórien
      • 207) The Mirror of Galadriel
      • 208) Farewell to Lórien
      • 209) The Great River
      • 210) The Breaking of the Fellowship
      • 270) Who Is Tom Bombadil?
      • 301) The Departure of Boromir
      • 302 – The Riders of Rohan
      • 303 – The Uruk-Hai
      • 304 – Treebeard
      • 305 – The White Rider
      • 306 – The King of the Golden Hall
      • 307 – Helm’s Deep
      • 308 – The Road to Isengard
      • 309 – Flotsam and Jetsam
      • 310 – The Voice of Saruman
      • 311 – The Palantir
      • 401 – The Taming of Smeagol
      • 402 – The Passage of the Marshes
      • 403 – The Black Gate is Closed
      • 404 – Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit
      • 405 – The Window on the West
      • 406 – The Forbidden Pool
      • 407 – Journey to the Cross-roads
      • 408 – The Stairs of Cirith Ungol
      • 409 – Shelob’s Lair
      • 410 – The Choices of Master Samwise
      • 501 – Minas Tirith
      • 502 – The Passing of the Grey Company
      • 503 – The Muster of Rohan
      • 504 – The Siege of Gondor
      • 505 – The Ride of the Rohirrim
      • 506 – The Battle of the Pelennor Fields
      • 507 -The Pyre of Denethor
      • 508 – The Houses of Healing
      • 509 – The Last Debate
      • 510 – The Black Gate Opens
      • 520 – The Rohirrim Song and Sibley’s Additions
      • 601 – The Tower of Cirith Ungol
      • 602 – The Land of Shadow
      • 603 – Mount Doom
      • 604 – The Field of Cormallen
      • 605 – The Steward and the King
      • 606 – Many Partings
      • 607 – Homeward Bound
      • 800 – Tying Chapters to Dates
      • The Evolution of Gandalf
    • 888 – Finding Tolkien Hard To Read?
    • A Letter to Private Eye Defending Tolkien
    • Defending Tolkien Against Michael Moorcock’s Condemnation
    • Filming Tolkien
    • Gollum as Stream-of-Consciousness
    • Power and Politics in Tolkien’s Work
    • Tolkien and British History
    • Tolkien and Le Guin
    • Tolkien as understood by Peter Jackson, Brian Sibley and Ralph Bakshi
  • 60) About Science Fiction & Fantasy
    • A look at Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
    • Blog on Science Fiction & Fantasy
    • Game of Thrones and Other Filmable Fantasy
    • Home Movies of the Soul
    • Priam’s Tragedy and the Wrath of Achilles
    • The Harry Potter Books (in 2000)
    • The Moral Void in Star Wars
    • Planets of the Hainish Cycle
  • 70) My Own Science Fiction
    • 700) Very Short Stories
      • Becoming Dangerous Yellow
      • Einstein and the Official Christmas Day
      • Fire works, Ice Endures
      • How Galadriel Gained Her Ring of Power
      • Love Among the Little Sparkles
      • Mistcrap in Flipworld
      • The Binding Hammer
      • Turning the Year
      • Vindalf’s Gift
    • 710) Stories under 1000 words
      • A Ghost Wind for Christmas
      • The Golden Teddy-Bear and the Bloody Shovel
      • Third Time Lucky
    • A close transit of a gas giant
    • A fight at the Temple of the Black Cloud
    • Bring Me The Head of Lady Godiva
    • How a robotka was left behind on a primitive planet
    • Kindness, Choice and Psychopaths
    • One Walked To War
    • Several Stars Away From Home
    • Sociopaths and Osteopaths
    • The Ashes Of My Brief Existence
    • The Seven Months War of 1914: 1)
      • The Seven Months War of 1914: 2) The Marne and Tannenberg
      • The Seven Months War of 1914: 3) The Christmas Truce and the Bryan Plan
      • The Seven Months War of 1914: 4) Peace Plans and the Problem of Bosnia
      • The Seven Months War of 1914: 5) The Consequences of the 1915 Peace
    • What If Frodo’s Ring Was Not the One Ring of Sauron?
    • Young Homer Changes the Songs of Troy
  • 80) Holiday Photos
  • 90) My Humour
    • A Multiverse Excursion
    • Black Hawk Down Snow Dogs
    • Coral alarm dwarfs pact to cut gases
    • What to do with non-BBC Accents
  • 95) My Artwork
    • My t-shirt design
  • About Me
    • My DNA results
  • Ideas You Might Borrow
  • My Blogs
    • Ukraine – the Current Conflict
  • My Father Raymond Williams
  • My Forecasts Over Past Years

Category: World War

Sep 15, 2018 Globalisation / Hitler / Human Evolution / Human Nature / World War

Baby Boomers and Old-Time Racism

Baby Boomers to Blame?  How the wealth-grab by a more-than-millionaire class has been overlooked, with ordinary people tricked into blaming

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Jul 24, 2015 Human Nature / War / World War

How the Great War might have ended differently

Alternate History – The Seven Months War of 1914 Part 1: The Fall of Lloyd George and The Tory War

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