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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;EWC3, post: 4309212, member: 93416&quot;]Delighted you make that point. As I recall the only political statement we have from Darius himself is translated as “I will protect the weak from the strong from the strong from the weak” which seems to make him a proponent of justice for all. And Greek sources scoff at him for encouraging market freedom – calling him a “shopkeeper” (brings to mind comments from Napoleon). And was it not a Greek democrat, an opponent of Spartan Greek authoritarianism, who piloted invading Persian forces ashore at one point?</p><p><br /></p><p>However, I am less sure that what we find behind paywalls is quite as wholesome as you wish to think.</p><p><br /></p><p>Academia itself waged a kind of war on objectivity back in the 1970’s. For instance Feyerabend, with Professorships at Berkeley, Yale, LSE and a bunch of other places, promoted the idea that the novels of Carlos Castaneda were legitimate contributions to scholarship! Where are the academics pointing that out? In the 1980’s Archaeology followed up with a political coup against the old guard of objective scholars (1986 World Archaeology, Southampton meet as I recall). I can gladly explain intellectual disasters that has led to.</p><p><br /></p><p>So its been a kind of double whammy. Hippy Professional scholarship attacked independently minded objectivity back through the 1960&#039;s to 1980’s - and now steps up to offer its own, often inferior, post-modern virtue signalling replacement.</p><p><br /></p><p>No, thanks.</p><p><br /></p><p>To go further, we would have to get into nitty gritty details. That SAA document offers amusing possibilities on that score.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rob T[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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