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<blockquote data-quote="Ydars" data-source="post: 4656240" data-attributes="member: 62992">I think you have now gone a little too far SkyOdin!&nbsp;The fact is that Japan HERSELF, her government, her people, decided largely break with their traditional way of life and adopt most aspects of western culture after Perry shows me that THEY judged western technology to be superior to their own. You can hand-wave about that as much as you like.&nbsp;And as for guns and knives etc; I don't see many battalions of knife-wielding soldiers in the modern world; most have guns and this is empirical evidence that in most situations, guns are superior to knives. Similarly, the samurai would have been annihilated if they had fought the US; sometimes you are right that &quot;better&quot; or &quot;superior&quot; don't exist, but like many historians, take it a little too far and are a little too in love with your own vision of the world!&nbsp;I understand your earlier arguments, but in fact NO-ONE understands the past; we only think we do. We were not there and we do not have the mindset of the people who lived with and through any time in history outside of our own experience. Your posts are starting to come across as if you are the &quot;one true arbitor of historical truth&quot;. Take a step back Sir.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ydars, post: 4656240, member: 62992"] I think you have now gone a little too far SkyOdin! The fact is that Japan HERSELF, her government, her people, decided largely break with their traditional way of life and adopt most aspects of western culture after Perry shows me that THEY judged western technology to be superior to their own. You can hand-wave about that as much as you like. And as for guns and knives etc; I don't see many battalions of knife-wielding soldiers in the modern world; most have guns and this is empirical evidence that in most situations, guns are superior to knives. Similarly, the samurai would have been annihilated if they had fought the US; sometimes you are right that "better" or "superior" don't exist, but like many historians, take it a little too far and are a little too in love with your own vision of the world! I understand your earlier arguments, but in fact NO-ONE understands the past; we only think we do. We were not there and we do not have the mindset of the people who lived with and through any time in history outside of our own experience. Your posts are starting to come across as if you are the "one true arbitor of historical truth". Take a step back Sir. [/QUOTE]

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