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Fun facts about An Lushan:
-He was the son of a sorceress and his name meant "war"
-He disobeyed his commander changing into a enemy army and got crushed
-He would've been executed for this but his superior liked him so the decision was given to the Emperor
-He met the Emperor and forgot to bow to his son and justified it saying he was a barbarian so he didnt know it any better
-The Emperor found this adorable
-He then bowed also to the Empress, which confused the Emperor
-He said it was because barbarians kneeled to mom before dad, which the Emperor also found adorable
-In fact the Emperor liked him so much that instead of executing him he adopted him and married him to his daughter
-When the Emperor died An Lushan thought his "brother" the prince who's now the new Emperor would execute him for the one time he forgot to bow to him
-The new Emperor actually wanted to make him his chancellor
-To do that the Emperor sent a eunuch to test his character to see if he was worthy being chancellor
-He bribed the Eunuch
-The new Emperor thought the eunuch was saying bullshit, killed him and sent another to test his adopted "brother" wholeheartedly believing his character
-He bribed the other eunuch too
-The Emperor then asked him to come to the capital so they could talk because surely those eunuchs were lying and he could make him his chancellor
-An Lushan panicked so badly he went to hide in his province not daring to leave his house and not going even to celebrations and burials where the Emperor would be
-The Emperor then appointed his rival who wanted him to answer for his bribery as chancellor, which he thought confirmed that the Emperor wanted to kill him
-He then led a army to siege the capital so he could capture the Emperor and make his "brother" be friends with him again once he executed his rival chancellor
-His rival used this as proof he wanted to usurp the throne all along and they had his whole family executed
-He understandably lost it when his family got executed so he tried to usurp the throne for real by proclaming his own dynasty
-He lost because the Sieg of Suiyang took too long giving time for the Tang to recover and was it's own level of mind-fuckery, just search the meme "strategic Tang Victory"
-He was killed by his own son who sent an assassin to stab him
-He was too fat to grab his sword or even move, also blind, so the assassin just akwardly stabbed him once and his organs popped out like a fart
- Did I say he was fat? I mean it, he apparently crushed a horse to death once with his ass trying to ride it
-Anyways his last words were "THERE'S A THIEF IN MY HOUSE" or "THIS IS A THIEVE FROM MY OWN HOUSEHOLD"
-The later is more likely meaning he knew it was his son who did it but the former is funnier because I like to imagine him thinking he was being randomly muggled
-After his death and defeat of his dynasty he actually received a traditional Tang burial given to a royal princ "ause they were more disappointed with him than anything else
-His post-death name given by the Emperor simply meant "unthinking" because of his recklessness, but I personally prefer to translate it as "stupid"
Seriously it was the stupidest war ever
Also it killed a higher percentage of the human population than any other conflict in history, roughly 1/6 of the global population in the highest estimates
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I had an ex-girlfriend, with whom I watched a TK documentary on Netflix. It was the first time I had ever been exposed to his ideas. Keep in mind, my ex was an over-medicated, hyper-sensitive, modern, romance book reading, tiktok brained, cat girl with little understanding of self-restraint. I remember, after watching the documentary, we sat on the couch and sipped wine while talking about the whole thing. I remember stating that I found his ideas wholly true and sound, while his methods were reprehensible. She was appalled. She stated, "but we are so much better off in modern times because all the advancements in technology allows us to be happier". I then asked her, "are you truly happy, though?" She didn't understand. It was then I realized that he was right about everything and my ex was a visible manifestation of all that he warned about, and she couldn't see through it at all. She will defend the system of her enslavement until the day she dies and believe that I'm the crazy one for believing otherwise.
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I'm a 23 year old Ukrainian, from Kiev, and I urge you not to underestimate the irrationality with which your mind avoids the reality of war. Even if you say to yourself "The russians might invade in a month" or "Second American Civil War will start over elections", you are still not accustomed to the idea of large-scale violence enough to react accordingly, because you lived a peaceful life.
You just wake up one day with missiles flying overhead and your home city under siege. You can store food, arm yourself or build a bunker, and still, your life might end because of stray missle, crossfire or maraudery.
In the very end, it all boils down to two choices: join one of the sides and do everything to bring its victory or flee to a place that will not be engulfed in the conflict. If you go with the first one, may God help you make right choices for yourself, your loved ones and your society. If you want to avoid the cruel meatgrinder that is war, take yourself and whoever you hold dear (somewhat forcefully, if it comes to it), and get away to a foreign country, or at least as deep into cuntryside as you can. It may seem like a overreaction, doomerism and apocalyptic thinking right now, it may hurt your career, relationships or finance, but these things wont matter when the war starts.
I wish you all the best luck, may you and your loved ones come out alive and well from the struggle, and may our children inherit a better world than we did.
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I read an interesting book recently called "After Nationalism" that discusses various different phases of American identity. The author talks about how deeply Anglophilic the old Anglo-American elite used to be, particularly the leaders of Federalist Party. Even long after the revolution, English-American elites used to really venerate British culture and history, and view the United States as being largely continuous with "English Civilization," as opposed to some entirely new thing. This manifested not only in continued allegiance to the old English churches, but also a preoccupation with teaching the history of England and venerating English cultural ideals like Shakespeare, the Magna Carta, the Glorious Revolution, and so on. There was also a deep obsession with viewing everything through a France-v-England or Spain-v-England lens, with England's traditional enemies presumed to be America's as well.
It's interesting how much of this has faded now. I think we now associate Anglo-Americans as having been mostly subsumed into distinctly "American" cultural traditions that are entirely detached from any identifiably British heritage, including Evangelical Christianity and the culture of "the South" more broadly. Other than defensiveness about the English language, I am not sure what would be the most visible signs of an ongoing effort to preserve English culture in America. I can only think of small things, like the ongoing fascination with the British royal family, or perhaps what Christopher Hitchens once described as America's distinctive "Churchill cult."
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When I watch your videos, I get partly black-pilled, frightened and a little white-pilled at the end. I have no doubt the world is in for some turbulent (or as the Chinese say, "interesting") times but I have a good feeling most of us will make it and it will be grueling and hard but necessary. Heck! My grandparents and my great-grandmother, along with my parents and their respective families, made it through the colonial era of Nigeria, our civil war, military juntas, the cold war, and even I made it through the 2000s, the great recession, the SARS, Ebola, Avian flu pandemics, and much more. We humans are a stubborn and resilient species and many of us have experienced so serious stuff and I am damn sure we will survive what's coming, Amen.šš
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I have an anecdote about our broken education system.
Two years ago I graduated with a bachelors in history, and I wanted to be a high school history teacher. I got into a masters program that included teacher training, and assigned me to a local high school to be a student teacher.
The master's program was of course ideological propaganda, but that's for another time.
I ended up being assigned to an 11th grade US history class for one semester. My mentor teacher was a former prison guard who took me on because he wanted me to do everything, which I was honestly fine with. I liked being able to control the curriculum.
I noticed that he didn't have any essay assignments planned, which I thought was odd, since reading and summarizing are pretty basic skills that have applications beyond history. So during our WWII unit, I decided to assign one.
After two days of telling the story of WWII, I had the students select a country to write an essay on. They could pick any country that significantly participated in the war, and had to summarize that country's war experience in a page in a half, double spaced. Easy. When I was in highschool, I could have done this in twenty minutes.
I soon learned why my mentor teacher had not planned any essays. Most of my students simply could not do it. Most of them thought research was googling something than paraphrasing the example text that appears under the search results. Most of them did not even click on an article without me pestering them. Writing quality was generally atrocious. One student thought double spacing meant pushing enter twice after each line of text.
I gave them a week to complete it, and gave every one of my 120ish students some tutoring. When the time came to turn them in, only about a fourth of them submitted anything. Of that number, about half were nearly unreadable, way too short, or contained significant plagiarism. In one hilarious example, the student had pasted in an entire article next to her own fourth grade level writing, without even making sure the stolen material was the same color and font as the rest of the paper.
The best papers were from the two exchange students, one from France and the other Kazakhstan. About 5 of the American students did really well.
My mentor teacher realized there would be trouble, since nobody was turning in the assignment. He made the executive decision to cut its value down to 20 points, the same amount as the other throwaway assignments we were required to give out twice a week. When the students realized its low value, they stopped worrying about it, and we got maybe five more submissions.
A few months later, two weeks before finals, my mentor teacher called me over to his computer. On the screen were three colored bars representing our student's grades. the first was green, representing As and Bs. The second was yellow and a bit longer, representing Cs and Ds. The third, which was longest, was red and represented Fs. This was the same year covid ended, so our students were still in the remote learning mode of not turning anything in. My mentor teacher said our mission now was to get half of the yellows to green and most of the reds to yellow. If not, we'd be investigated by the admin and have to deal with a legion of angry students and parents. Every level of the system, from the teachers to the administration to the parents to the students themselves, were incentivized to lower the standards and push everyone through the system, year after year, regardless of competency. The end result was illiterate students arriving in my class, who I was completely unable to help, and could do little for other than put my own seal of approval on their embarrassing performances and send them on to 12th grade and college beyond.
My lessons on the internet age and rise of mental health problems were scrapped, and the rest of the semester would be homework makeup days. The students mostly copied late assignments, some which were due three months ago, from students who had actually completed them. I was flooded with late work that was mostly cheated, and from which the students likely learned next to nothing. We also spent a long time preparing for the final, for which my mentor teacher provided a study guide with the exact multiple choice questions that would appear on the test. No critical thinking required whatsoever. Even after all this, the red bar was still too long, so for the last week of school, my mentor teacher gave participation credit for showing up and watching movies. The amount of points the students received for one class period of sleeping through "Red Tails?" 40. Twice the maximum they could have received for my essay assignment. Multiply that by five school days equaled 200 points for watching movies, enough to shorten that red bar to the necessary level.
After that I decided to quit high school and get another masters so I can teach college.
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As an old man now I see the difference in the world I grew up in, and the world young men have now.
Women my age (in the 80ās and 90ās) wanted a man, and the family that comes with that relationship. They openly talked about it, and the men that they knew in the community.
My wifeās friends hanging out at the house gave me more than a glimpse of that side of the equation.
There was a definite competition between women.
Now with the younger women I know the difference between the generations is clear.
1. Women may not be the ones who ask for a first date. But when I was young men were told āAmy likes youā. I had female teachers and professors tell me, Amy wants you to ask her out. It seemed as if the entire female community played matchmaker.
2. Men and Women were given positive stories about relationships. Happy Ever After was assumed to be the result. It may have been the white washing of marriage. But it was encouraged. Now itās assumed by both sexes most relationships will fail painfully.
3. When I was younger the Men in TV or Movies were not the bit of the joke, or shown to be a fool at every chance.
Women were not expected to be the leader in a relationship. They certainly were in most ways, but it was done in private. The woman may plan the entire roadmap for a marriage. But appeared to follow their man, as if they were showing off to the world the Masculine man they possessed to the world. Yet the strength and confidence he showed the world, was rooted in the support from her.
Today I see women more often trying to showcase their own strength and in many ways masculinity to the world. Even if that means causing her man embarrassment.
4. Men were focused on work. It was seen as just part of being a man to put your head down and work harder. Yet it wasnāt that the men were tougher, or more selfless. Just that the support you needed would come from your woman. And as men her approval and affection was all we cared to have. Nothing else mattered.
And the women that knew relished being the focus of all he required.
5. Leaving a wife and child(ten) behind through divorce, if initiated by the husband was Reason for social ostracism. And would cut men off from family and friends.
Once you had children, the expectation was you would endure misery if necessary. Because being divorced was seen as a negative for both men and women by society.
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2:11 Taiping rebellion, the little brother of Jesus Christ starts the third most deadliest war in history
4:00 Demetriu's invasion of northern India, greeks invade India
4:46 The An Lushan Rebellion
6:42 The second Congo War
8:04 Imjin War, the war with admiral Yi, nation hero of both Koreas
6:44 War of the triple alliance, Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay vs Paraguay
10:54 The great northern war, Supersweden vs all it's neighbors, including, but not limited to: Russia, Denmark (plus Norway) and the Commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania, later I understand the english join
13:08 The fall of Assiria, the beginning of the end of the first dark age
15:53 Bizantyne-Sasanid war, the end of antiquity
17:35 The Spanish succession war, the whole of Europe and half of Spain vs France and the other half
19:47 Rise of Maurya, the birth of the first grand Indian empire
21:22 30 years war, a big chunk of Germany is killed over a guy being throw out of a window
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Mao was a librarian. In my opinion, he simply photocopied not Rousseau, but a book from his own land from before the 3rd century BCE, The Book of Lord Shang. It's all there in The Book of Lord Shang, a shockingly cynical book of totalitarian rule that makes anything written in Europe such as Machiavelli look like a children's fairytale. A sample: "Farming, trade and office are the three permanent functions in a state, and these three functions give rise to six parasitic functions, which are called: care for old age, living on others, beauty, love, ambition and virtuous conduct. If these six parasites find an attachment, there will be dismemberment ... If in a country there are the following ten evils: rites, music, odes, history, virtue, moral culture, filial piety, brotherly duty, integrity and sophistry, the ruler cannot make the people fight and dismemberment is inevitable; and this brings extinction in its train. If the country has not these ten things and the ruler can make the people fight, he will be so prosperous that he will attain supremacy." The Book of Lord Shang argues that anything we would consider a virtue has to be stamped out by the totalitarian government. China's philosophical legacy from the ancient past that is reverberating today has nothing to do with Abraham, it is their own philosophy of Legalism.
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Tolkien in his literary universe, created two races: Elves, which were immortal till the end of the Earth, and Men, who lived on earth only a little while, but then departed the world to go elsewhere. You might think the Elves had the better deal, but they lived in a marred world which was prone to entropy, thus the Elves became wearier with each passing year. Whereas Men would only be on Earth a little while, and then escape beyond the circles of the world upon dying. A fallen world is no place to be an immortal. Tolkien was expressing the Christian ideal of the Resurrection, and that it wasn't just getting tossed into an afterlife, but a transformation of the soul to prepare it for the unfallen Kingdom of God.
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This is highly oversimplified. The business elites are roughly equally split between the republicans and democrats, as evidenced by the majority of silicon valley business leaders and the everyday programmers who lean democratic. It is also not very true that the "religion" of the right includes classical liberalism and that the "religion" of the left is confined to social justice. Clearly, classical liberalism is championed by parts of both the left and the right, while disdained by their other, more extreme halves.
In reality, there is the social justice left, the big government traditionalist right, and the majority of centre left/centre right Americans, stuck in the middle. I think the increasing party polarization that you described reflects not the increasing polarization of most Americans, but rather that both extremes have managed to gain more power and prominence through organization/the dynamics of national and social media.
The best analogy to our current craziness, I think, is the Italian "years of lead" in the 1960s-80s, where communists and fascists gained prominence and bombed businesses and killed politicians, while gaining support by saying that they're "defending" society against the other extreme. Eventually, the silent majority of reasonable people got tired of the violence and division, and banished the communists and fascists into the political wilderness.
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āPeople who do not trust one another will end up cooperating only under a system of formal rules and regulations, which have to be negotiated, agreed to, litigated, and enforced, sometimes by coercive means. This legal apparatus, serving as a substitute for trust, entails what economists call ātransaction costs.ā Widespread distrust in a society, in other words, imposes a kind of tax on all forms of economic activity, a tax that high-trust societies do not have to pay.ā
~ Francis Fukuyama
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I've been thinking lately how the One Ring in LOTR is very analogous to technology in general and smart phones specifically. Like the one ring smart phones give you great power but slowly destroy you. The one ring makes you invisible to the normal world, look around, everyone is buried in their phones, are they really there IRL? The one ring grants Sauron constant surveillance of you, how many eyes and ears are on these devices we carry around 24/7? Imagine Frodo in Mt Doom with the ring in his hand, except that its you and it's your smart phone, no so easy to let go.
Look around at the world and the state of technology, the internet, smart phones, all of it, and the direction we seem to be going. These words suddenly gain new meaning "One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them."
Great video!
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Im a construction worker. I build pools, which entail plumbing, dirt work, concrete work, tiling, painting, plaster work, and carpentry. I make 22/hr and i work on the road for 5 - 10 days a week, just so i can barely scrape by and provide for my family. I have no control over my life or my destiny. But if i fail, then people that depend on me feel the impacts. My wife works as well, we live paycheck to paycheck, no savings no retirement, no light at the end of the tunnel. I will work till i die
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I started watching Whatifalthist in Junior High (about 8 years ago), as I was very drawn to alternate histories during that time. However, the difference between Rudyard and say alternate history hub for example is that his content matured along side me. While alternative history is fun, I stopped being as interested when I hit my Junior year in Highschool. Currently Iām a freshman collegiate wrestler and Whatifalthist is really the only channel I still watch from my childhood. His videos analyzing American cultures, civilizations, and predictions of the future resonate with me. To explain why, Iām from a Midwestern city of about 140,000 people. Itās in a really unique demographic position as itās about 60% white surround on all sides by corn fields which are farmed by rural whites. In the city, thereās a hallowed out industrial sector which is decrepit and in ruins. However, my city found a lifeline in having a couple large companies headquartered in my downtown as well as a massive state school of 20,000, a smaller private college of 5,000, and a community college. Finally, thereās large black, Hispanic, Asian, and Indian (from india) populations. The American cultures of the Midwest, foundry, bourgeoisie intellectuals, and yankee are all present to a significant degree. Next about myself- I grew up in a single mother household with two older brothers. My biological dad is a scumbag whoās off doing whatever trailer park white trash estranged dads do. Despite this, I formed very close bonds with my brothers and mother. I would say love for my family most of life choices. My goals in life are to move out of the lower middle class, take care of my mother in her old age, and settle down with a wife and children. With this combination being how I grew up when Rudyard would talk about Americaās issues and future it just made sense. Everything he talked about damn near perfectly described my life and my community. To say that his videos have impacted my life would be a bit of an understatement. As a result of Rudyard, I have read Oswald Spengler, Euripides, Virgil, Gilgamesh, Homer (Iliad and odyssey), Aeschylus, and more. My political and personal identity is deeply shaped by the morals and virtues that Rudyard spouts. Today, Iām entering the final stretch of my freshman year in college and my season ended a couple weeks ago. Iām majoring in economics and have been dating a wonderful Chinese girl for the last year and half. Perhaps Iām not alone in being an OG Whatifalthist fan thatās still here, absolutely loving the new content, and looking forward to every new video. Or, I suppose that also a possibility is that Iām some weird guy that spends too much time on YouTube. To each his own I guess. Rudyard if you read this- Iām sure Iām one of many guys thatāve been here from the start who youāve impacted in some pretty significant ways. Keep up the amazing work
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I currently teach Japanese adults, mostly businessmen, at an online English school, and it disgusts me how some of these people take pride in dedicating their entire lives to their jobs and not giving a shit about their family. They usually tell me that on the weekdays they would start work at 8 AM, end at 9 PM, and go home at around 11 when their wife and kids are already fast asleep. On the weekends, they either continue their work from home, play sports with their coworkers/bosses or study some skill their bosses demand them to learn (like accounting, English etc.)
I often ask them whether they spend time with their families, and they say yes, but only one or two times a month when they take them on outings. And when I ask them if they ever get worried that they're not being for their kids, they just say no, they don't, because it's "just the wives' job" to do such things apparently.
The fact they say that so nonchalantly, and even take pride in it, really hits home what Whatifalthist said about modern bourgeoise capitalism and postmodern thinkers, on how they see basic human needs like socializing, to be a "weakness" or even a second priority because of how it doesn't contribute to the industrialized economy.
Sorry for coming off as rude, I don't mean to generalize the Japanese, it's just these few salarymen that think that taking care of children is a "wife's job" because they couldn't bother about their own offspring really hits me. It makes me thankful that my father, despite working late hours too in another country, still messages me sometimes if I'm okay.
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There was a good point near the end that should never get overlooked, being the reaction. "Rubber band" movements as I call them fling themselves far in the opposite direction of the previous or mainstream thought. Some of the most extreme ideologies of the modern era are arguably rubber band movements against aspects of the medieval period; e.g. communism rejects the landed nobility in favour of top down bureaucracy which ironically is what the king wanted most of the time, and Facism which is a direct rejection of the idea that the weak should be protected and cared for and that there are more important things than your nation to fight for.
Arguably we are on the trend of returning to effective paganism, as the rise in atheism has precipitated a massive reduction in moral teaching among those who do not pursue it, this leads to the standard massive inflation of a single moral precept above others in society as happens in all ideology: loyalty to ones family and local community in confucianism at the cost of long term stability; provision for the down trodden in marxism, at the cost of the successful; loyalty and stability in facism, to the cost of freedom; protection of ones people in Nazism, to the cost of the minority; and the pursuit of truth at the in enlightenment philosophy, to the cost of tradition (not always good or bad). In the worst cases only the negatives come out; warring states, holodomor, Holocaust, and I think we're experiencing the move towards full rejection of tradition for the first time at the moment (though that point will likely never be reached).
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As someone born in 1998, I largely agree. Despite having been on a dozen dates with different women and having moderate success on the dating market (a few matches a week) having good social connections and close friends in various groups (family, students, party politics, hobby groups, plenty of social media followers), I am still an incel. I am in relatively good shape due to jogging and good diet even if otherwise I don't do exercise much. And I can communicate with women and men in a normal manner, I am just considered too "nerdy" for their tastes for liking school, video games, books, art, history, classical music etc. and taking myself seriously. I have some weird traditional upper-class mores like self-improvement, curiosity, seriousness, propriety and good manners, which are generally disrespected
Despite being highly intelligent, coming from a good family, and studying a degree which should provide me a high wage level, I still feel hopeless in today's job market. My field is extremely hard and requires an extensive understanding of math, statistics and programming. School before university was a child's play, now it is a constant grind and banging my head against the wall (metaphorically). Even so demanding, that I am thinking of maybe trying a different education field or career path. I do enjoy learning things, but the price for success is high. I am burned out after doing my bachelor degree, and right now I have no motivation to continue my studies, even if I could continue to complete the masters degree.
I have been in two-entry level jobs which can be replaced by robots. I have handed out forms in buses and did telemarketing for useless products. The former was the more decent one for a job, and I actually enjoyed it. I have also volunteered for counting votes in election but thats only once a few years. But, what you do when you can't get even a damn job as a shopkeeper or waiter or something, even if I have often applied. Even if my relatives are all highly educated in three generations, have been executives in companies or hold high positions in public sector and other jobs. Even if I have large amount of savings (hundreds of thousand of euros) invested in bank account thanks to my relatives, who I might later inherit for millions, I am still worried for my financial future. I don't know if it is good that I have gained so much wealth for nothing as an employed student, it breeds apathy in me for working.
The bit about mental illnesses and nihilism hits me. During corona I became depressed, had anxiety, just like all the people I knew. Plenty of them have had those even before. In addition, I was diagnosed with autism as a child and I might have ADHD as well. This all seems fairly common for my generation and people I knew. Especially the prevalence of ADHD is skyrocketing and will probably continue due to changes in our society.
Above all I hate modern pop culture and popular phenomena, which feels soulless and appealing to the most common denominator. What do I even use Youtube for then? To listen to classical music, find documentaries on history, math and science, and on video gaming.
But the dopamine thing is hard. Thing is, I would like to concentrate and stop using social media and waste my time on Internet. But everyone else uses it, so I must too if I want to participate in discussions and planning events. I need to use the computer constantly whether I like it or not, in my job and studies. I was addicted to porn, but I got mostly free off it. Now I only addicted on video gaming and social media. I am also addicted to Wikipedia surfing and gathering more information from the web. I am NOT a person who you should give a device which can provide endless information for them and endless debates with strangers.
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As our parents grew up, they saw the world get better. They lived through the dissolution of the USSR, they lived through some of the biggest economic booms from the latter half of the 20th century, they saw Dictatorships going from the norm to a shunned ideology that was ousted by Democratic values, they grew up in a time where focusing on your family was the priority and your happiness was seen as a necessity. But we didn't. As we're getting older, we're just coming across more economic decay, and the outlawing of national identities, and the promotion of the idea that what we as individuals think do not matter and it's what we do as a collective that define us. I (b. 2002) have never lived in a world where the average person not only owns the house they live in, but can afford a mortgage and to have children, and I don't know if I ever will. But history is full of surprises. Like he said at the beginning of the video, we all have this feeling in our gut that a breaking point is almost upon us. And if that happens, I predict that the corrupt leaders we all hate will be deposed from office and younger, more knowledgeable people will take over. It'll take a lot of time but it'll happen eventually, if things continue how they are.
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1) I agree with you on all points. I would like to point out that if you haven't looked into the relationship of wealth and status with attractiveness, that maybe be a good jump to go to next.
2) I'm out of my depth on this one but I have come to the conclusion that Western Philosophy isn't dead and doomed to failure, but is at a limited dead end. Like taking the wrong turn at a Y intersection, we are going to have to go back to the intersection and take the other path. (From my own understanding, Liberalism and the Enlightenment were absolute wins (grounding that each person has social rights that they should be treated with by the state was great) however, the evolution of that where people believe that people deserve economic rights has done little but hypercharge envy.)
3) Agreed
4) As a geopolitical person, I think geography (topography and climate) is one of the major pillars in economic development. You will notice that thriving civilizations have gone from Rivers, to Basins, to now Temperate Climate Zones. Couldn't disagree more that geography is "easily disproven." Pretty much agree on anything else.
5) Agreed
6) That's an interesting take, I kind of agree. That being said, I think if Millennials can't answer up to those who came before us we are totally fucked. The systems are breaking down, either we get through it or we don't.
7) BASED, and part of where I disagreed with you in the last part. People act like everyone back in the day was just harder, tougher, and the like. However, when it comes down to it, very few point out how many people dealt with their issues by drinking bottle after bottle.
8) There is a balance between Unitarianism and Diversity. Societies that are Unitary are easier to move but far more rapidly fall into decay with a need for revolutionary overhauls. Diverse Nations tend to be disjointed (sometimes to to point of collapse) however, they tend to have manpower, resource, and intellectual capacities that more Unitary states just can't match.
9) Simple answer is yes. While war can absolutely break nations, it is in short a geopolitical competence check. Nations that are uncompetitive absolutely get crushed in war, and with that comes their removal or replacement. Without war it is very likely most people wouldn't have access to WRITING.
10) I am fully convinced that Men and Women have a massive underlying dislike for one another. For reasons you talk about in this video, men and women want to play by different rules. Whenever one sex feels it is injected into the rules of the other sex, I find that there is massive amounts of distain. One of the biggest issues Liberalism and Tolerance has it that it tries to treat people as equals, but that clearly breaks down when coming into the conflict of the sexes.
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The way working conditions are today is mind boggling, and the way they don't cover expenses fully is even more so. My dad worked a good, high paying job just about all his life as an electrician in southern California. At the best of times, we were lower middle class. At the worst of times, we had gotten evicted due to rent prices being raised. The only reason why my dad is now able to finally try and afford a home at 52 is because my mom passed due to us not being able to afford a life saving hospital stay (the hospital didn't let her stay despite her having issues with diabetes and kidney failure, and she died not even two weeks later. My dad thought about suing, he's a strong, hardass man that I had only seen cry once before my moms passing in my life, but after all the heartbreak and tears shed, he didn't want to deal with all the hassle.) and because he doesn't have to pay for her any more. Let me reiterate: my dad, an electrician paid quite well by many standards, couldn't afford to keep his family alive. What kind of world do you have to live in for that to be the case?
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Im history student in Mexico and my favorite topic is religion and spanish institutions in the colonies and there's a lot of this new age indigenists ideas that are so absurd and exagerated once you have a quick check to the archives.
I'm not graduated and I'm not a pro either but here's a quick sum of stuff people believe about colonial america that aren't very true.
(Sorry for my English)
1. The Spanish conquered america to rob it.
Literally were a bunch of guys in the edge of the law that went on its own to do adventuring and by sheer will, cunning and absurd luck (everyone hated the aztecs and the inca were at civil war) they conquered a lot of stuff and gifted it to the king of Spain. It's free real state i guess.
2. The aztecs were a cool civilization that didn't deserve to be murdered. Also, aztec Identity in general.
Yeah, no civilization deserves to be exterminated. But literally (almost) everyone hated the aztecs because they were a supremacist ultra militarized human sacrificer tribute demanding society. Cortez had the idea to invade Tenochtitlan because the totonacas asked him to please protect them.
Also there's a lot of people in Mexico that said the aztecs are the ancestors or that there's a lot of aztecs in the country... No... There are Nahuas, Wich is a cultural and linguistics group to Wich the aztec kinda were part of (they migrated from the north) similar to how spartans were greeks but not totally greeks. Yeah it's like saying that you're ancestor was totally leonidas because youre Greek.
Also the aztec empire wasn't an empire like rome, were 3 allied cities who only colected tribute and dropped it into his capital. For cool mega indigenous civs there's the inca. Anyway I'm not saying aztecs were totally bad. They're cool and were wonderful engies.
3. Spanish looted america and didn't leave anything behind.
Have you seen mexico city? Puebla? Veracruz? Guadalajara? There's a lot and I mean a lot of stuff left by spanish. Like... You know... Universities. Libraries. Administrative centers and so on.
Yeah of course they take most of the metals to spain but they weren't 19s colonialist who only extracted raw resources. American states were kingdoms, no colonies, similar to NƔpoles, Flanders or Castilla itself (yes, they were the lest prestigious but still) so the spanish did try, with various grades of success, to improve the land.
4. Indigenous peoples were brutally oppressed by the spanish.
This semester like... Al my assignments have coincidentally been about this and now I'm disgusted to this statement.
I could argue, that the indians have actually more privileges than the average spanish peasent.
Of course they didn't were to the level of spanish nobility but they have a lot of rights.
They lived in the indians republics. Basically autonomous mini states ruled by indian nobility that only awnsered to provincial governors or the viceking.
There were corts specially for indians matters and usually they favored the indians republics over the spanish republics.
Indians who founded towns get instantly huge swaps of land.
Indians were forbidden to be slaves. (Unless they rebeled or something)
There were indian right, written by priests.
And yes, they were considered inferior only for being indians but it's the 17s please. But they didn't live under systemic oppression.
Actually most of there rights were stripped by the liberal mexican government after the independence.
5 and last because I'm tired. Everything about the inquisition.
The inquisition was asked for the spanish settlers so they were some kind of police to watch over the conquistadors and keep the morals. Also because secular priests that were in charge of that before were kinda rads sometimes.
The inquisition killed like... Half a dozen non foreigners in 3 centuries.
The indians were actually not subject to the inquisition. They were christians in development. Inquisition it's only for spanish mestizos and for some reason blacks.
The inquisitors were 2. Like... Just 2. They didn't went in a CIA operation cracking down witches. They were like supream court judges with a team of local priests and civilian spies. They were cool.
Also they were useless most times. America wasn't very prestigious so... There's was a lot of inquisitors who just didn't do anything.
Witch hunts... They do belived in witches... But they didn't believe every girl was one. There were very specific proves to witchcraft. And healers and shamans weren't considered satanic. Just immoral and ignorant people who make people fall in sin. But they really didn't care much about them besides the casual lashes when something scandalous happened. But again, this is the middle ages, the inquisition punishments (unless you had very good proves against you) were the merciful ones.
Also if you denounce someone for something to the inquisition and they didn't get proves... You had to pay reparations and be ashamed.
To conclude. I don't want to fall into the pink leyend of the spanish. I also could go on a list about everything they fucked up. But for another time.
There are just some things that people say about colonial times that are, as always, not black and white.
And one last thing.
The independence of Mexico was against the spanish government, the liberal constitution, and Napoleon.
The original goal was, a mexican ruled, catholic and conservative kingdom under the king of Spain.
Yeah i mean the criollos wanted to rule but they were loyal to the empire. And liberalism? This is MĆ©xico. ReligiĆ³n Independencia y UniĆ³n.
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Youāve heard of convergent evolution, right Rudyard? Well, thatās what I feel Iām witnessing everytime I view one of your videos from the past two years. Even though Iām almost twice your age weāve arrived at almost the exact same conclusions about history, geopolitics, and the role of Judeo-Christian tradition in shaping the beautiful symphony that is Western Civilization.
What I find the most curious is that we arrived at these conclusions about life while coming at it from two completely different vantage points ā lived experience and intellectual research respectively. Iām a child of revolution and war, born in Iran to a Zoroastrian father and a Jewish mother, educated at British boarding schools in the Classics, a US citizen by choice, and civilian attachĆ© to military advisers on behalf of the State Department in post civil war Cambodia and pre-revolutionary Indonesia, and a professional musician of 25 years.
I was born at about the median point of Gen X, and Iāve lived in 36 different countries including Russia and China. We have drastically different experiences in life, but thereās this parallel inner path that we share and lately itās gotten super uncannyā¦I returned home from a Peter Zeihan presentation a few months back to find you talking about him in a couple of your latest videos. Meanwhile, you came about this knowledge through book learning, and what I find most astounding is not the amount of books you read because I was the same at your age, but rather that unlike many in your generation you actually arrive at the correct conclusions from the books.
The main conclusion Iām referring to besides the importance of religion in shaping our modern world is the Hobbes versus Rousseau debate. Suffice it to say that Iāve witnessed enough of mankindās inhumanity to man to have been thoroughly disabused of the notion that people are essentially good. Nor do I hold that we are essentially bad, but rather that we need the steadying hands of tradition and religion to keep us from the beastly aspects of our nature and to keep us on the path towards our higher selves. Keep up the good work!
Cheers, and warm regards šš¼
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This is an incredible take on the Boomer generation, and has put some things in perspective I didn't expect about my parents' generation ! Though they grew up in post-war Tito Yugoslavia, you can find many similarities with the West (Yugoslavia was indeed a socialist authoritarian regime, but they still gave the bird to the USSR, and remained neutral/distant with the West, sooo... Life wasn't that bad, I remember all the gramps loving Tito and living confortably until the 80s)
Also, an interesting point I discussed with my therapist, because I suffer terrible anxiety. She asked me "Did you notice how all the media and people are saying the world is ending, the world has never been more horrible, what the hell is up with the world lately ? What do you think of it ?", and I replied : "Well, I think it's just that we have means of information that spread stories like that, and that people don't realize the world's always been like that, it's just that before it was harder to spread information. And bad news travels extremely much faster that good ones."
And then she said : "There, in your sentence : 'the world's always been like this'. The current generation are seeing History return to its usual, millienia old course, that is never ended but was just on Pause for 75 years, and they're not willing to make their peace with that."
To which I could only reply flabbergasted : "Holy sh-..."
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As to the point about the cult of authenticity, which I wholeheartedly agree with you on, I think the explanation for how it came about and where it's headed is a tale in itself.
Historically, people were sincere or insincere. You were more or less born into a role, and how society judged you reflected a concern for how well you fit those mostly preassigned and prefabricated roles: How good of a mother are you? A man? A king? A saint? A peasant? A baker? A wife? A son? A warrior? A Christian? Or even a villain? A heathen?
We still partially relate to one another via these displays of sincerity, as when we consent to consigning part of our identity to a traditional role like husband or wife through marriage. But we have put increasing cultural emphasis the past two centuries on being yourself, being authentic, as the traditional structures reinforcing sincerity-based identity structures began to either crumble or so radically transform as to become unrecognizble to themselves. This shift created an odd paradox since society's encouragement to not bend to society's will is self-contradictory.
You no longer were asked to fit in but to stand out, to be who you truly are, and eventually the Gen X ethos would most fully embrace this distaste for ideology in place of a desire to be a fully authentic individual.
But just as sincerity became gradually replaced with authenticity as the primary mode of identification and truthfulness, branding or "profilicity" (the construction and curation of a public profile) is today starting to eclipse the authentic. Think of it as the difference between an intimate photograph meant to capture a fleeting moment that deeply means something to perhaps only yourself versus a group of friends taking a staged photograph with them all jumping in unison with big grins on their faces. The former is authentic, the latter is profilic. To people raised to identify with authenticity, the profilic photograph looks phony, what with its carefully curated staging and artifice. But to younger generations, the profilic display demonstrates a form of honesty by virtue of how invested in a particular image or display one is, by the cultivation of a profile and the labor invested in maintaining that socially accepted image.
I don't think the internet demands authenticity. Instead, it demands this mode of profilicity, where the injunction is not to fully integrate one's actions into a cohesive narrative about one's identity but instead to successfully promulgate a personal profile as it relates to second-order observations in a self-referential social system. So, when we are observing and engaging with an identity formation, it is as a means of communication, external, first and foremost and not as an expression of an internal consistency.
Gen Z is close to fully embracing this new paradigm, it appears.
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In the late 1980ās, there was a British political comedy show called Yes Minister, and a sequel called Yes, Prime Minister. The beauty of this show is that Civil Servants contacted the writers and shared their experience, so the show captured an accurate account of how the political mercenary in No10 works, and more importantly; why.
In one of the Yes Minister episodes (clip entitled: Yes Minister - Selling British Arms to Terrorists), we learn that Britain was selling detonators to Communist in Italy. Near the end of the clip, Sir Humphrey Appleby tells his Minister that āGovernment isnāt about morality. [Itās about] Stability; keeping things going; preventing anarchy; stopping society falling to bits; still being here tomorrow. ā¦ The government isnāt about good and evil, itās only about order or chaos. ā¦ Itās not my job to care [about the Italian terrorists getting British bombs], thatās what politicians are for. My job is to carry out government policy.ā
This is truly startling that Civil Servants actually believe this, however throughout the rest of both shows, there are far too many examples where they let a conflict of interest affect their decision making; they were effectively taking bribes, giving themselves honours, and quid pro quo.
The point the show subtly makes is that, even though Civil Servants are like robots who think themselves as serving the greater good, the corruption side of things is ultimately going to undo society and bring about chaos. This show came out nearly 40 years ago, and the damage that came about because of corruption is nearly complete.
Itās a really good series and it sheds a light on why things are getting progressively worse decade after decade, but more crucially, imagine this happening but in every country, every day.
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Iāve only gotten about thirty minutes into the video before writing this, but when I see how miserable my life can be(20 white college educated man, single, well read, currently bordering on near insanity from social isolation and extensive drug use thatās addled my brain, addled by relatively extensive trauma, very few close friends, usually go months without having sex yet Iāve had sex more than the vast majority of men in my age group) I find that thereās truly no way to not let the melancholy and bleakness of modern life affect you, besides ignorance and faux-positivism. Faux positivism is worse than the abyss. It is a lie. Ignorance is just ignorance. As stated in the blurb, recently Iāve been bordering, and perhaps sliding into insanity. My mind hasnāt been working correctly and a decent chunk of the time Iām not lucid. This morning I felt extremely nervous, nauseous, paranoid, and dissociated. Occasionally I have moments of near schizophrenia, (hallucinations, voices, irrationality). Living in this world truly kills, though I wouldnāt refer to it as ālate stage capitalismā as I feel itās a doomsday term, the current capitalist system has destroyed society and alienated everyone. The family today is not a close group, my experience with family is sadly the normal. Though my home isnāt broken, my parents teeter between reluctant cohabitation and not speaking to each other for weeks on end. My mother and father both, at multiple points in time have left major psychological impacts on my psyche that have blossomed into major hindrances of my life, and when I compare my experience with others mine is way better than most.
Letās face it, communities today are lame and shallow and do not fulfill any aspect of the inner soul. Theyāre built on shallow ideals, and are incredibly ineffective as they usually boil down to āyou should just be positiveā. Positivity and optimism are another form of opium for the masses. Sincerity is the answer, in my opinion and experience. Being sincere to the people who are in your life and building relationships that are worth having will save you whilst also accepting, as ugly as this truth is, your life can very well continue in the relative misery it has been defined by.
Iām not gonna say that romantic love is dead, but itās not faring well and is in rough shape. There is no blueprint for this, humans are randomly evolved animals, consciousness is a coincidence. Before self determination in romantic relationships, most women were subjected to daily rapes by someone they were forced to marry. However, in the same way that communities are lame and shallow and possess little to nothing, so are most relationships. Many are about satisfying sexual urges. Many are right place right time and have very little substance. Many are because of trends(see tik tok trends for tall skinny boyfriends, white women dating black men(further footnote: I am not espousing racist views with this, plenty of white women date black men for the trend, look at any college campus)). Love isnāt preordained either, there isnāt someone just waiting there for you. There are no stars that align, there is no fate. There is simply coincidence, and to be happy you have to take those chances. For example, Iām currently in a partnership, however itās a near entirely online thing. Iāve seen her in person once. The first chance I get I will take it with her, because she is very important to me and having her in my life makes it that much better.
The final thing that I will say is crucial for not putting a bullet in your head is abandoning expectations and hope. Our generation was sold a false bill of goods in childhood, and since pretty much most aspects of western(Iām an American so this may be different) culture are built off of an either constant living in or a nostalgia of childhood, when the world doesnāt line up to our childish ideals, everything falls apart or we choose to delude ourselves and continue living in this faux world. Abandon those expectations, even abandon the idea that you will be happy and you will lose about half of the desire to kill yourself.
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Iām 27 but in my āyoungā life I canāt believe the amount of cooperations swallowing every part of life. Back in the day it seemed like these companies would buy someone out their competitors and change them to their own brand name. Now these corporations buy out people and keep that bought out assets name and brand to make people think they have an option. I work for the largest pest company in California, we were bought out by Orkin whom operates in all of the US, Canada, Australia, and Europe. They cut jobs at the on the ground level, cut pay for supervisors, buy cheaper chemicals, but cheaper uniforms, and raised the prices of our services all the while not raising our pay despite the insane amount of inflation. Plus now that we are a publicly traded company we are so scrutinized. It feels like I no longer have no ability to promote because all those jobs are going to people with college degrees that have never worked the job. At the same time the place I live was bought by a corporationā¦ rent has gone up 10% a year, we are required to to get renters insurance, and a ton of rule changes to make their insurance cheaper. The quality of my life is going down because of corporate giants who donāt give a shit about us. 3 years ago I never struggled like this. I work my ass off to have nothing.
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Good video. Minor disagreements of course. But I really think the "The underdog is always good" and "There is always someone to blame" sections are the most important here.
"The underdog is always good" section is important because this is a axiom that has taken over our society. Not only did it originate in the Christian ethos, but it was popularized through dystopian movies. I like to use Nietzschean terms, this is a slave morality in the most extreme sense. We often here the "absolute power corrupts absolutely" saying. While I think this is true in some cases, I think the opposite is true in other cases. Absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely. Nietzsche said this as well. I'm forgetting the quote word for word, but he essentially said that if you spend too much time fighting monsters, you will likely become one yourself. And to remember that when you gaze into the darkness, the darkness gazes back into you.
"There is always someone to blame" is good too. I think there is definitely more than human will at play in history. And this is why I really don't like to take a moralizing view of things. For example, I'm someone who is really opposed to globalism, I see it as a negative force in the world, and it will lead to consequences that might as well be considered crimes against humanity. But I hesitate to call globalists or elites who perpetuate this agenda evil. People don't do evil things just for the sake of it. More often then not, they really do think that what they are doing is good. Evil for evil's sake is exceedingly rare. And this helps you avoid conspiratorial thinking or the marvel movie syndrome.
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Hey Rudyard, natural psychic, modern Rosicrucian and trained Remote Viewer here. I really enjoy your channel! š
I thought your video "Did the CIA Discover the Spirit World?" was very well done. You did a fantastic job for someone not directly involved with the program or being an RV student/teacher.
I completely agree with your assessment of the Catholic Church's role in the Western World. It certainly is the most 'mystic friendly' Church in the world.
I must agree with your assessment of natural psychics. The unfortunate part with untrained natural psychics is that they are typically hampered childhood trauma and don't really understand how their abilities work. Because they know they are different and can perceive things the average person cannot, they far too frequently become not only egotistical, but completely narcissistic, rendering themselves completely useless to themselves and mainstream society.
There is an old hermetic saying, "A philosopher without practicality is a tree without fruit." I would expand that to include psychics: "A psychic without practicality is a tree without fruit." Psychic perception and the Remote Viewing Skill specifically, have tremendous practical applications. But considering the dominate materialistic culture, it's difficult to get people to even look at Psi/RV. And many of the people who are interested in it are delusional New Age hippies who couldn't navigate their way out of a paper bag, must less map the Spirit World. š¤£
As a trained Remote Viewer, I can assure you that the accuracy of a full-trained Remote Viewer would scare the hell out of the average person and would absolutely traumatize a die-hard materialist. A doctor who is trained in RV could investigate future cure/treatments and bring them into the present for instance, and much easier than I could. I'm not a trained doctor, so I can sketch and document the raw data, but would not understand the context of it, like a doctor would.
The same goes for an engineer. I can pull through rudimentary engineering future developments, but a trained engineer could do it much better.
I personally believe we are on the cusp of a revolution with science and religion. But holy cow, is this a painful process! š£
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2:15 Absolutely. I automatically assume a self-proclaimed feminist will be inherently rude, combative, and uncooperative towards me, and I need to walk on egg shells around her.
3:01 This is a bit strange to me. As I understand it, getting laid is more costly for women because of the risk of pregnancy. I think what Rudyard means is that men need to actively court a woman and jump through a lot of hoops to be able to have sex with them. Men also have to face the chance of rejection from women. This all makes dating and romance more challenging for men.
3:15 I went through a sort of redpill phase in my early 20's. I put women on a pedestal, partly because I wanted sex from them and partly because I was taught that it's good to be very kind to women. I was also raised by a single mom, so I grew up with this notion that women were caring and loving, and men were irresponsible, selfish, abusive, etc.
After a string of failed courtship attempts and many rejections, I became kind of bitter at women and the fact that everything I learned about dating and romance up to that point wasn't working. And the crazy thing of all: women seem to respond better when I'm indifferent to them and don't put them on a pedestal.
4:13 Women generally communicate based on what they're feeling/what they want, not on what is true/rational/accurate/etc. A woman saying misandrist comments probably means that she's upset about a negative experience she had with a man. And she wants to confirm that the people around her will put up with her comments and still care for her.
A comment like all women are 10s and an attractive man is only found once every few years sounds like self-aggrandizement to me: she wants to feel good about herself. Calling herself a 10 makes her feel good. Devaluing and denigrating men gives her a feeling of empowerment
6:50 Yes! Women in the Western world have enormous rights and legal privileges compared to almost every other time period and culture. Western women also don't get stoned to death or have acid thrown in their faces, don't have to wear burqas, and are not gang raped as a societally-accepted form of punishment
9:52 As a civilization grows bigger, more safe and more prosperous, more bureaucratic systems need to get created to run things. As I learned from Whatifalthist, women thrive in these types of bureaucratic systems with low competition, generally high safety, and with great importance on following convoluted procedures and rules; women have a great eye for details.
It seems inevitable that women gain greater independence and economic importance once a society reaches this point of safety, prosperity and growth, and this means that the society becomes more feminist
11:27 I think couples need much more than just love to stay together for long. They need practical benefits to staying together and/or some form of cultural pressure. My mother didn't want to marry or have kids, and she had to be pressured into doing both. I consider the 50% divorce rate in America as mainly caused by no need or cultural pressure for couples to stay married. And a lot of entertainment media normalizes and even sometimes encourages divorce.
17:58 This may be one reason why I love this channel so much. My Big 5 very closely matches Rudyard's. The only difference is I have low Openness
19:49 As an engineer, I can confirm that not only do we generally not have gender discrimination, we try to be very accommodating to women. There are many efforts to encourage girls to go into engineering. It's just that a most women don't like engineering. I once tried to show a female project manager an engineering technical drawing, and she acted like I was trying to show her a dead animal carcass.
20:11 As I understand it: one possible reason why the lowest IQs are men is because women are less negatively impacted by things like abuse or neglect. Generally among the lower classes in societies, the women have higher IQs than men because the lack of things like education or proper childrearing has a lesser negative impact on women compared with men. I believe this could be for the same reason that women live longer on average and don't get sick as easily
21:14 In terms of reproduction, men are high risk-high reward for a bloodline. There's a chance he'll die in war before having children, or no woman will want to have kids with him. But on the other hand, there's the chance that he's able to get a harem or something, and ends up having dozens if not hundreds of children (ie. Genghis Khan)
23:53 - 24:23 Yes, people are not equal. The same person is not even equal to themselves, depending on the phase of life they're in or even the time of day (ie. a morning person in the morning is superior to that same person in the evening). As I see it, this pursuit of equality stems from envy and a desire to be a king in Hell over being a servant in Heaven
27:15 Yep. If we lose a war, the women will be taken in by the enemy as wives/concubines/maybe sex slaves. We'll either be executed or used as forced labor and worked to death. On a related note: In WW2 after France fell to Germany, a lot of French women tried to become friendly with the invading German soldiers and become their girlfriends/wives
38:00 This crazy Netflix show that seems like anti-Western Taliban propaganda reminds me of a People magazine article I found: Patrick Mahomes (the QB for the Kansas City Chiefs) was helping his wife by taking social media pictures of her while she was in a bikini and making sexually provocative poses. The article title was basically saying that he was so driven to help her, that he was bending his knees to get a better angle, and that all of this was good. I thought this was insane. What man would be okay with his wife taking sexually provocative pictures of herself for social media, let alone help her?!
42:48 This is going to sound awful, but I generally don't think it's possible to make women happy. Because of women's high trait neuroticism, they'll be unhappy no matter what. I heard a parable that says something like: God gave women hair, and they get hair extensions. God gave women breasts, and they get surgery to make them bigger or smaller. God gave women pretty faces, and they put makeup on to look prettier. If even God can't make women happy, what makes you think you can?
I don't really try to make women happy anymore. I just treat them well to the best of my ability and hope for the best
Lastly, I can see a post-feminist society that works on polygamy: most women are in the harems of very high status, moderately psychopathic men. The men who are single can use "corn" or robotic sex dolls in place of a woman. If these harems are allowed with no legal restrictions, and the robot sex dolls actually become widespread, the birth rate and society could be relatively stable
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0:55 Happy belated birthday Rudyard! You've read a lot, travelled a lot, and seen a lot, and you're wise beyond your years
3:45 For years, whenever I was going through a hard time, I'd sarcastically tell myself that Life in 1st world 21st century America is an unbearable hell, and that maybe I'd have a better life in the Congo, Uganda or North Korea (again, this is sarcasm). I extended this sarcastic callousness to others. Thanks to this channel, I'm now able to acknowledge that life in America has its own set of difficulties, and I'm able to better sympathize with people.
5:10 I now realize that whole "You'll be rich if you work hard and follow your dreams" as mostly Baby Boomer crap from the American Golden Age of the 1950s and 60s. It's not really a lie (it was probably true back then), it just no longer applies to us in today's day and age. The Boomers generally don't have any useful experiences or wisdom to pass on.
6:25 I was a mechanical engineering major in college. It was unusual when I didn't study or work on something class-related on Sat and Sun. Staying up until 3 in the morning to finish an engineering report for a class with my project team was a regular occurrence. For one class, I had to write an entire multi-page paper from scratch the night before it was due because I literally couldn't find anytime beforehand to work on it.
9:17 I've always been taught that religion and science were diametrically opposed. Learning about how cooperative the two are, has been one of the most mind-blowing things I've discovered on Whatifalthist
9:36 The mass shootings that happen semi-regularly. I can say that whenever I go to a public place like a mall, I have the uneasy feeling that a mass shooting might occur. Most strangers I meet seem like they're stricken with anxiety over something. Also, I'm somewhat concerned that if I try to start up a conversation with a woman, I might get accused of sexual harassment or something for doing something that I thought was fine. I can't speak definitively for other men, but they probably think similarly. It seems people can't form communities because we're generally too scared and can't trust each other.
17:29 The ranks of the leftists statistically consist of narcissists and psychopaths, and this would explain these kinds of immoral, insane acts done by the leftists. Harm avoidance seems to be an innocuous way of saying "avoid consequences for bad behavior," which appeals to these types of people.
18:22 If the Right ran academia, Christianity would be studied far more extensively and be a major academic field. There would be a firearms department dedicated to creating, upgrading, and studying the history of firearms. Internships with private businesses would be far more commonplace and wouldn't be restricted only to corporate office-type companies. There would be historical masculinity courses and even majors available, which can focus on things like Ancient Greek/Roman masculinity, masculinity in the Ottoman Empire, etc.
22:43 Yes! A fragile alliance of envious, resentful, spiteful losers who seek to ruin and undermine because it gives them a perverse sense of joy and empowerment
23:08 If something like CHAZ happens again, we should air drop in vegan meat substitute foods that are laced with laxatives. It'll make them disband sooner
24:50 There's also going to be a lot of failed elite aspirants. People who tried to join the ranks of the elites (in our case, by going to college and hoping to land a cushy corporate executive job or something like that but couldn't make it happen). They'll be resentful, and well educated. They'll be the vanguards of the political radical groups who seek to push for their agenda and interests
28:25 Agreed, and dangerous. I grew up with enough science fiction media to have the solid belief that AI would simply turn on us and become our enemy. This idea of technology attacking us has already kind of happened with social media making us lonely and depressed. Autonomous AI that's actively hostile towards us would just be the proverbial cherry on top.
29:03 This 76 cents for every dollar is misleading. As I understand it, adjusting for profession, hours worked, and years of experience makes the true ratio 98 cents for every dollar a man makes. That's still an underpayment, but who cares if it's only 2 cents less?
And lastly, forgiveness is a virtue, but it has to be balanced with practicality. If your defeated enemies are still secretly your enemies and only pretend to be friends to save their own necks, they shouldn't be forgiven.
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I was seriously sick about a year ago, waiting for a hospital procedure, expecting the worst.
Only a few months prior I'd been homeless, having to quit my inflexible full-time job due to the slowly worsening sickness I was feeling and the rent on my studio apartment going up.
I'd had about 20k saved, which I used to sustain a 6 month period of pure hedonistic escapism between quitting my job and becoming homeless during which I became sicker and more depressed and after which I was broke again. The only friend I had and could talk to during that time was my mother who was in rehab.
Fast forward to now, I'm feeling better than I have in years, in some ways better than I have my entire life.
I'm not sick like I was, I'm not depressed like I was, and I'm not alone like I was.
Prepare to scoff, but I've managed to bring these ailments down to manageable levels with the following, respectively and in this order; Diet, Exercise, Faith in God.
My illness got so bad I couldn't eat. At all. The pain of starving was less then the pain of digestion. So I just didn't eat.
Then, having heard about carnivore diet through Jordan Peterson and figuring I had nothing to lose, I discovered I could in fact eat beef and not feel so awful.
I started to feel better, and my symptoms subsided. I was still to anxious to really go anywhere but now I had a heap more energy than I knew what to do with, so I bought some cheap weights and started working out. Being so skinny from starving, I noticed my muscles increasing (noobie gains) which boosted my confidence and self-image.
Then Easter this year came around and, having thought a lot about the idea of God, decided again that I had nothing to lose by attending the Easter service and just seeing what it was all about.
It was weird and uncomfortable, but I felt good giving myself up to a higher ideal and I kept going every week thereafter.
I feels like, for me at least, the only way I get to live is by letting go of control. When I'm in control I get to call the shots and do what I want. But doing what I want when I wanted to led me to some very dark and lonely places and eventually almost killed me.
Giving myself up (as opposed to giving up on myself) and denying base urges has provided me with a sense of grounding, stability, and even a better understanding of who and what I am. 33 years old and only just started life.
Alive by P.O.D. plays in the background
:Edit: Also my mother is completely sober and out of rehab, doing better now than she ever has. Seems my personal growth and our talks have impacted her and she's grown a lot too, I'm very thankful for her and it's great to have a proper relationship with my mother. Recently started talking to and even doing some work with my dad too and rebuilding a relationship therein as well. It's really honestly great.
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If there is a God, and there is... and I'm his favorite, then if we could see from a cosmic perspective then we would see ourselves as fish inside of a fishbowl, with smart phones, trying to study the universe from a small part of the universe itself.
Even better, imagine trying to study the world as a microorganism, like a probiotic, inside of a person living in St.Augustine, Florida, in Spring of 1996.
Limited perspective players, stay humble and grateful.
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@WhatIfAltHist Rudyard! Your best video to date!
As my 11th grade American history teacher said (38 years ago), āCommunism completely discounts human nature.ā You have nailed it, here.
George Gilder has spoken of the single failure of communism being their assumption that social and technological progress reached its pinnacle at the moment of their inception, and all managerial decisions of the state will forever be static-based on that initial point in time. Failing to recognize that chaos and creativity have the determinant effect on society, and only a government that can evolve, ebb, and flow freely with such chaotic creativity can succeed.
You will likely bristle at this, but having watched several years of your work now, you are definitely evolving towards a definitive philosophy of life, as the study of history does for most of us.
So many lessons about our current world and the deliberate socializations and propaganda plaguing us can be traced to this failed religion and the pathetic souls who buy into it, support it, and push it, from all walks of life, from all over the world.
As in 1930s China, it is a tiny fraction of the very most radical who have finagled their way into positions of influence who drive this lunacy.
We must resist!
Videos like this are some of our best tools to awaken people to the enemy within.
Great job!
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Actual sociologist of religion here; the problem, my friend, is that it is not enough to value the positive aspects of religion such as community, inclusion, meaning, etc., but rather, that you have to actually believe in what the religion teaches. In short, you don't get the benefits of confessing Jesus as Lord unless you actually believe that Jesus is Lord...( Romans 10:9-10). For what it is worth, I suspect that we are on the verge of one of the greatest religious revivals in history as everything breaks down. In fact, I would bet everything I own on this, if it were not for the utter insanity of most of Western Christianity trying to embrace the very things driving the rest of the culture into suicide.
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Here is the clue I've followed to identify the connection between irrational Karen and the Left.
1. The Left-AntiLeft conflict is basically the conflict between human's childhood and adulthood, similar to Thomas Sowell's Conflict of Visions: Unconstrained Vision versus Constrained Vision.
In one's childhood, he/she must be protected by some kind of guardian, aka, parents or legal custodian. That is to say, he/she must have the Unconstrained Vision to expect some kind of savior in his/her life.
In one's adulthood, this Unconstrained Vision becomes untrue. However, some people will keep their Unconstrained Vision for their entire lifetime. They refuse to grow up, at least psychologically. This kind of people becomes the Left.
2. Female is the gender bearing most responsibility in reproduction and offspring's childhood. Abundant biological evidence can prove this point.
Nevertheless, once the offspring grows into adulthood, mother's interference with the offspring becomes less positive, often impedes the offspring's psychological health, likely creates a giant baby with adult's physical apprearance but puerile mindset.
3. From 1 and 2, we can see some connections between femininity and the Left.
The keywords are: irrational; emotional; dependency on savior; fighting in the form of passive aggressiveness; mouthy but avoiding direct physical struggle.
Now we have a Karen figure.
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Incredible video!
I would have a suggestion for a video about understanding countries that are unique in their respective region and do not necessary fit into their "Archetype". Some suggested countries/cultures would be: Romania (a latin island amidst a slavic sea), Hungary & Finland (Fino-Ugric countries that have survived Europe), Kazakhstan (and the other -stan countries), the Continental Asian South Eastern Countries (Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia) and the central american countries & caribbean.
I think a lot of these cultures are extremely underrated and there are plenty of people who would like to find more/find what the opinion of a knowledgeable American is.
Personally, I find the history of Central-Eastern Europe particularly interesting and underrated, especially when taking into account the richness of some of the cultures here (Czech, Romanian, Polish, Hungarian, Yugoslavian, Post Byzantine-Greek (not to be confused with Classical Greek))
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Regarding your touching on the topic of demons and demonic possession, I wanted to quickly pause and comment a thought (so you may cover something similar in a couple of minutes after I finish my comment...). There is a line of thought that I've come across that we in the secular, industrialized world are W.I.E.R.D, or 'Westernized,' 'Industrial,' 'Educated,' 'Rich,' and 'Democratic.' These five characteristics separate us at a fundamental level from human history and from a great deal of the contemporary human population.
I have become convinced that us W.I.E.R.D.s have lost the ability to see the world as it truly is. One thing that I have found interesting is the existence and experience of demons and what I will call the "spiritual world." If you go to more primitive societies, it is not at all uncommon for local villagers to have mass demonic sightings. I remember reading a story of a Western journalist who was in Libya on assignment, and who was warned by locals to stay away from a certain mountain because it was "where the demons live." She ignored those warnings, went to that particular place, and her mental/emotional health steadily deteriorated; IIRC, she ended up going to a South American shaman for an exorcism, after which her well-being significantly improved.
At any rate, I'm convinced that there is something to the topic, and I think that we should consider it more. I was happy that you brought the topic up.
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When I was in Afghanistan in 2009, I asked some locals about mythical monsters. Vampires, werewolves, zombies, and dragons were all things that they had heard of. For context, this is in a place where some villages didn't know about the Soviet invasion, the Taliban, or the US invasion, until we showed up (probably about as expected as aliens) and asked how they were doing.
Anyways, I concluded that these myths have existed in nearly every culture, even the most closed-off ones.
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2:10 Races aren't an actual genetic component of humanity, just social & often fluid, ("Saxon Gene" school shows this)
8:54 Frontier School & Melting Pot school are accurate in their own way as the native frontier promoted unity that kept dictatorship from arising from the American revolutions like it does for all revolutions & immigration lead to the expansion of American identity from just Anglo-Saxons to all European cultured peoples.
Everything else is wrong.
9:24 African economies correlate strongly with statehood experience. Places that have had precolonial African states tend to have good economies (like Nigeria, Angola former home of the Kongo Kingdom [Not the Democratic republic of the Congo, actually]) while places that didn't (or were raided heavily for slaves by Europeans & Africans alike) have terrible economies.
14:34 Seems to relate to the general shift in the 1960s as wealth inequality began to grow overall due to Structural-Demographic forces as you talk about often with Turchin. African Americans found themselves jobless in cities "trapped" in drug houses, which is where the name of the music genre comes from.
Slavery also entrenched low social capital. Why thriving as individuals while decaying as a collective & other cultural differences like higher rates of authoritarian personality or distrust on par with Southern Whites, as it goes both ways. The South is also long known by observers for centuries to be a much poorer & less effective society than the North due to the effect on social capital towards southern Whites.
To this day Corruption is endemic, especially in the center of the Slavery, Louisiana.
16:57 The war on Drugs is modern prohibition, and Prohibition lead to the rise of America's second gangs(After the Irish, before African Americans & Hispanics), the Italians (Southern origin). (Who also, coincedentally, come from a slave society, Ancient Rome & also suffer incredibly low social capital.)
18:38 Trump?! On his mother's side? His Grandfather was German...
24:27 Irish volunteer intensifies
30:47 These things are connected, yes.
36:58 Latin America is very similar to the South & just as religious & conservative at heart.
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15:00 Although nomad civilisation š°šæš°š¬š²š³ is a strong shame+pride culture, with all clans and stuff, women are not treated bad, but rather were traditionally seen as equal to men. It is becoming worse since Islam became strong after 19th century. Women ride horses, own property, widows are not burned and can marry a second time, women is respected in society (because woman on a horse is not worse than a man on a horse).
Basically, you, a strong man, insult your pride by attacking or humiliating a weak woman. So the manliest thing is to be cruel with your enemies, but respectful to women around you.
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wow, Rudyard... I don't know even how to start ,what to address... this video is something else, let me make a disclaimer I am from eastern Europe(Serbia) so this video is somewhat relatable but in no means completely, probably less then what would your average viewer find it, and I'm a bit older (33) but still feeling quite young, either because of being immature or general spirit of the time. The point is I feel the notion of this video and, having seen many of your videos , it was this particular one that just hit me differently .It just feels so real and disturbing ,that I hope ,whoever finds himself in the position of Tom can put his shit together and fight against this adversity they found themselves in. btw I believe you could write a great script for a movie based on this video .
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Incredibly interesting video - almost no one is talking about these topics together.
It's useful to point out that the Gnostics attribute the knowledge-giving role to Lucifer, not Satan, which are distinct religious figures. Lucifer, Prometheus, and Christ were all similarly punished in their respective religious "origin stories" for distributing some form of "forbidden knowledge" to the plebs. Christ was crucified, Prometheus was chained to a rock and had his liver eaten forever, and Lucifer was consigned to manage Hell.
Christ told people to be altruistic and self-sacrificing, and how to heal themselves or cleanse their bodies or "temples" of "demons" (aka diseases); Prometheus gave mankind the "gift of fire" (aka the origin of most technologies in general); and Lucifer told people they should fight for their selfish desires and use pride/self-interest as sources of motivating "emotional energy." You could call all three of these religious figures "light bringers," as some odd offshoots of Gnosticism and the other Judeo-Christian religions do.
I think some balance of the three is probably best, since any extreme way of following one of the three makes for an unbalanced society. Refusing to use any form of technology doesn't seem appealing, refusing to be kind to anyone and mistreating your health is a bad idea, and pretending you can live without any shred of pride or self-interest will destroy your mental health.
I think it's all about striking a balance between following the various forms of knowledge these foundational Western religious figures, or "light bringers," suffered to distribute.
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Yup! its all bogus, has to crash in some way, but there are things that can save us...
Normal pattern is as people lose belief in the big lie, they return to self sufficiency. This powers down the big lie, and builds actual security.
The Tao talks about this...
Basically a reversal.
From a money based, specialization based society, to a do it yourself based non dependency culture..
Also we are about to move into the robotics/AI economy, Where AI replaces all those useless office jobs, and robotics replaces all those illegals.
Personally not worried too much about the future if we can get thru the next few months, which is our Hari Seldon Crisis era.
The housing problem is downstream of Agenda 21 in the 1970's, expansion and supply was cut off by those installing Neo Feudalism, who wanted all the Serfs to live in Cities and villages. It could be changed over night by a law, a crash, or opening up some Federal and Corporate lands to home steading.
If system stays bogus and stupid it will crash, and everyone will homestead whatever they want, when theres no Rangers being paid...
The step after homeless is rewilding.
I have studied subsistence agriculture most of my life, Last 28 years in Central America, lived on less than a dollar a day for decades...
Actually its quite nice, and can be done with few tools.
The only real problem we have, is its the bogus money system that keeps the worst humans somewhat busy.
And as the money system becomes dysfunctional, Chaos increases, and in case of Rome, rural areas tore out bridges and roads to limit access by raiders, and set up local defense forces.
And returned to a semi hillforts culture, with the addition of Roman stone masonry instead of wooden palisades, and with Feudalism, instead of Clans.
Its like the Mayan civilisation here in central america, the Indians are still here, they just quit doing stupid government schitt and went back to self sufficiency.
Basically government is the problem, and a "Foxfire" culture is the solution.
The most stabile culture in human history was the Hillforts Culture. It lasted for thousands of years.
Because it dealt well with human nature and needs.
I think we will either Nuke ourselves or grow up....
The problems are understood by enough people now, and the solutions are being proposed.
Whats most necessary is the rerealization that the Universe is no accident. That there is an infinite force.
And thst we are a project, not an evolution.
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We're moving into wolf-feudalism, in which only the highest elites breed and live real lives (clans, land, animals, outdoor activities, socially significant mating), while the upper servant class in entertainment, journalism, bureaucracy, and academia are marked by sterility, perversion, vanity, and hyper conformity, and the rest zone out/act out with crime, drugs, and electronics.
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A college girl with a sticker that says ākill capitalismā on her apple PC is the most ironic thing ever and perfectly summarizes everything wrong with America today. On one hand you have people who want to destroy a system which has kept their society going and supported their lifestyle for hundreds of years, in exchange for socialism, a system which by all means has destroyed every society it has touched. Meanwhile, instead of thinking how to fix things with capitalism, they actively contribute to the problem trough fanatical brand loyalty, be it out of convenience, or as a sign of social status (think for a moment about how many people you know boast about having the newest I-phone, while making fun of someone with a different phone, even if itās actually a better phone). These exact behaviors is what enables monopolization, resulting in large corporations becoming so powerful, they essentially run the country
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I'm an accountant. I believe science works because the scientific method works. However, I've always felt it was dumb to apply economic principles to every aspect of life, just as it is dumb to apply scientific principles to every aspect of life. The moment I realized I was on to something was when my economics professor taught, with a straight face, that manufacturing job losses to off-shoring were an overall good to the economy. The theory is that the reduction in prices is beneficial, while the factory workers represent an economic resource that will be re-allocated elsewhere.
I thought, well I understand that the lines on her graph supported her theory, but common sense says that ruining the lives of thousands of factory workers is a greater negative than the small savings all Americans receive on the price of the goods now made offshore. The majority of the profit from such moves goes into the pockets of already wealthy shareholders and upper management, who aren't likely to spend it. Whereas the workers who lose prime factory jobs will likely never replace their income fully, permanently reducing their ability to spend money and keep the economy growing.
What makes the most common sense is to mix and match policies with what will do the most good for society. None of the philosophies or theories is best in every situation, including liberalism, conservatism, socialism, or libertarianism. Pretending your favorite -ism is always best is an overly simplistic way of thinking that leads to foreseeable mistakes in public policy.
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I'm a Spaniard, I'm 30, Fine Arts college Degree, it's 5 AM I just woke up from a nightmare, get up, have some water, turn back to bed, see a new WIAH thumbnail, click in... watch, enjoy, struggle, realize how truthful your knowledge is and share it with men younger than me... and leave the classical, "CARROLL QUIGLEY you tried to warn us, you Catholic Anglo" You died before Billy Clinton's D#ck got publicly sucked, i wonder what would you have thought of that XD "
Peace out smart guy ;)
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Born in 2006, noticed that the world ever since specifically around 2011 or 2012 was a big shift for how I saw the world, the world became more obsessed with social media and how people saw them as a shell of themselves and not how they were as a person almost a Sense of fake personal relationship with people, this then advanced through the 2010s to now where it kept feeling as people were becoming increasingly more and more fake on a personal level not showing their true self to just please others, I've felt like people can't ground themselves anymore and follow what everyone else thinks in a way more to please everyone around them than saying their mind and I will feel uneasy about how people don't care about opinions but how people think of them on the outside rather than how they actually feel, just how I have observed it and especially with 9th graders which is my grade, they don't talk that much either anymore focusing more on social media than human connections, sometimes I try to start a conversation and nothing, everyone ignores what I say and just keeps focusing on what their phone feeds them and I just feel a social aspect of my generation is just gone, when I was younger people in my grade would talk more since they didn't have cellphones and now most times they can't focus for 3 seconds, makes me sad but I try my best and so do they
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Rather poignant, my friend. Despite your confessed depressive intentions, I find something exceeding solace, yet still falling slightly short of elation in that fact that you, are a person that is alive as my contemporary. I knew I couldn't be the only one suffering, awash in my own personal version of purgatory/hell/meaninglessness. You are a gift to the uncountable lost souls, the overly introspective, the hyper self-critical, and last, but in no way the least the average Joe, endlessly asking himself between his own two ears, "What the fuck is going on in the world around me. This is not what I thought I or it would be..." I also got some long awaited affirmation that yes, this indeed is simply a rather shitty and maddening period of time to be alive. Godspeed. Keep this shit up my man! All the best!
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Just finished watching and I feel so moved, my heart aches for all of the beautiful souls who have been so cruelly broken down by our current society. I count myself as one although I donāt fit your demographic, I am a 67 year old woman, alone, sort of broke, not in the best of health and I watch each Whatifalthist video as soon as a new one appears, I try and read as many of the books referenced and I am so thankful for this channel. I live alone in a small rented cottage outside of Philly on a farm to try and escape the world I have watched grow more callous, false and at times evil. I am so sad that our world has come to this point. Thank you Rudyard, I am sure this was much more difficult to write than to view. It was both heartbreaking and a thing of beauty. I think we must turn to God, there is no other answer, that is how I am getting through. I send love to all those hurting, you are definitely not alone, we are probably the majority. Please God help our sick world and again, thank you Rudyard and team for the clarity.
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I lived thru women going to work in the 1970s. Women were told this will empower you. Feminists said women can compete with men. They were right. But who ended up with all the money created by the hard work of women? A few people at the top, like Larry Fink. Larry says thanks, ladies.
My main question about feminism: does it work? Does it make women happier? Sadly the answer is no. Yale University did a 30 year study since the 1970s, worldwide on whether new career options for women, were making them happier? Betsey Stevenson, "The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness". Free online study. The sad part of feminism: it made women unhappy.
Most humans, particularly females, most find happiness and meaning, in family. Nature and evolution has rules: Women evolved to have children when women are in their 20s.
Feminism prioritized working over family. So: Women worked hard. But: Most of the money created by hard working women, went to the 1%....Larry Fink. Empowering women just meant, making corporations richer.
Some women don't want family, that's fine. Some women are happy working for corporations and Bill Gates, most are not. Those that prefer family over career should be helped to find meaning in their lives. For most it means family.
Feminism mostly helped corporations and the 1%, not women. Women got used, by rich men. They know it. That's why they are unhappy. Female happiness has been in steady decline, since the 1970s. If you are a young woman today, your grandmother had a happier life, before feminism. That's what the study found...by asking women.
However, curiously the study says male happiness has gone up, since the 1970s. So: in a strange plot twist, feminism made men a bit happier overall, but made women unhappy. The war over feminism is over: men won. That's sad. We need to do things to make women happier. I support feminism, but it's obvious we need feminism 2.0.
Our current version, isn't working. It's making women miserable. This is not up to men, we should support women, but I have no interest in telling women how to live or what to do with their bodies. But the current feminist ideas, are not helping women. Sad.
Data I have seen on studies in Holland, reported on CNN said: 20% of women prefer to be full time career women, 60% prefer to be part time moms, part time at work, while 20% of women prefer to be full time Moms, at home. Feminists don't stick up for women who simply want traditional families. These women are stigmatized by feminists.
What to do? Give women more choice. Women are pressured to conform to what other people think is good for them. I'm not into that. I prefer choice, let women sort it out for themselves. Those women who want lots of children, let them, often that's what they want. The data I've seen says the happiest people in America are women with 4+ children and a husband that earns a very good income. Not for everyone. But for those women that want careers, let them. Encourage them. Most women are in the middle, support them all. Stigmatize no one.
I don't believe in, one answer to fit everybody. Yes, some stay at home moms end up unfulfilled psychotic, jealous etc. True. Others bloom in that environment. Depends on the person, the circumstances.
One error I think feminism made: Most of the benefit from feminism actually ended up helping upper class women in advanced countries, at the expense of the middle and lower class women. You can figure this out by looking at data of: who goes to university? It's almost entirely the bright young women, from the upper classes, who pursue higher education. Jordan Peterson recently said that when he taught at Harvard he noticed almost all his students had parents in the economic top 1%. Girls from poor families seldom go to advanced education. Rich girls often do.
Feminism benefitted rich upper class mostly white American women, by giving them opportunity for a career, fulfillment and a lot more money. It enlarged the already white class privilege or upper class white women. This was disguised as "helping all women." No. It did not. At university upper class women tend to marry highly educated men, producing very high income families. Charles Murray the libertarian picked up on this long ago and wrote "Coming Apart". The classes are separating, for mating and education. When people first noticed this trend in the late 1970s, we called these couples "yuppies"...young upwardly mobile professionals. This is one of the main drivers of wealth and income inequality now. The very thing the progressive left rails about. They help create it.
For the upper classes, marriage is still largely intact. The reason is, women are hypergamous. See: Dr. David Buss, evolutionary mating science professor University of Austin, in conversation with Dr. Jordan Peterson. Women are mainly interested in men above them or equal to the woman. Women are wired by nature that way, the way men are wired by nature to prefer young attractive women. In other words: Women don't "date down".
Upper class men earn more money than other men, so it's a good deal for women to marry them. So they do. They do say, I do. So the marriages are stable in the upper class...just like the 1950s. But in the middle and lower classes, women are now outcompeting men on wages and status, so marriage has basically collapsed for most women. That's the practical implication of feminism. This was not the way it was supposed to be. Middle class American women are the inadvertent victims of a bad but unintended consequence of feminism, while rich white women are the biggest winners under feminism. It's about rich girl privilege. They won.
How to improve our lives, by understanding gender:
Yes, to the original point. Women traded in, a confined life at home, to work for corporations, starting mostly in the 1970s. This created a lot of wealth for rich folks, didn't improve women's lives. This improved some things, made other things worse. We need to improve. Unpacking gender and politics, what we can learn from it:
Gender and Politics, is it left vs. right anymore? No. It's men vs. women:
Why?
Women are 55% of all voters. Their votes decide every election in America, because they are the largest group of voters. Some facts: Single women in their 20s in America vote 80% Democrat/Progressive. Married women tend to trend Republican, for voting, although overall women tilt more left than men. Why this pattern? Evolution: Women evolved for a bit more empathy than men, they also have children, primarily in their 20s. And the political left emphasizes things that have more appeal to women, than men overall. Biology? Having babies reduces female wages, so females look to politics, to even things out with men.
We need to understand evolved biology: Women think of themselves, more as a group, a collective, a hive, than men do. That came out of evolution, female vulnerability with offspring. Karen Straughan has a video on it. In-group female preference, she calls it: Because women have babies, they tend to vote in big government, if marriage and being looked after by a male partner, does not work for them. Our economic system has to keep that in mind.
Women vote in far higher numbers, for the political left, than do men. It's the same political voting pattern in every country, that gave women, the vote. In America: The Democrat Party is becoming the Party of Women....they emphasize using tax dollars, to take money away from men, to look after women. Looking after the vulnerable. The Republican Party is becoming the Party of men....they emphasize less taxes, traditional gender roles more. Biology roles out, in how your money is spent: Men pay 70% of taxes, but use only 30% of government services. Women pay 30% of taxes, but use 70% of government services.
Lots of political commentators for decades said, the political left is winning. That's true. Everything keeps shifting politically left and big government is growing exponentially. Why is that? Who are the majority of voters? Are they looked after? Leftwards shifts are what happens when women vote and we have a society where women are sexually free, so permanent bonds don't form, families don't form. The gov't takes the place of family and collects and distributes taxes to favor women, to even things out. That pushes things politically leftwards. So women essentially vote in a Substitute Husband. Women use their voting power to elect socialist governments, to look after them. In America now, 50% of children are born to unmarried women. Who will help them out? Marriage is in decline, so they vote in the government husband to look after them.
The political divide in America isn't really left vs right, Republican vs. Democrat. It's men vs. women. We don't have a cohesive culture, our values suck, feminism is the cultural hardware of our government, our schools. Feminism as a social model doesn't work to run a successful society on. It needs to improve. It doesn't have solutions for all our problems, it just says give women more and more and more, ask more of men, while letting women be sexually free. That means as Andrew Tate keeps point it out, our current culture is a bad deal for men to form long term bonds with women. So men turn to jerks who figure: It's not worth it. The result? Our culture is going down the toilet. Our social model failed.
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"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.ā
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Hello RudyardL., indeed, your best video so far. You are maturing along nicely. When you found yourself the smartest guy in the room you wisely sought out bigger rooms. The race-of-Life is an endurance race. I expect my comment to bury itself among the many. Your point to invest in yourself with real skills is right to the point to endure out in that lifelong race. Skills that are of real daily, weekly, yearly value to you and those around you. And "As the World Turns" you will have to add to these skills-sets. Decade by decade I, and others of self-value have had to. The real world modern late 19th to current possibilities changes on 5-8 year cycles.
Please consider going lighter on the GEN's stuff. This is a created spin cycling meant to distract. An Illusionist trick to get you, us, all, looking in the wrong place at the right time.
Evaluate people of all ages, sexes, ethnicity by their own sense of worth; real works-done; and their Honor honesty.
You've stuck both your feet in it now with your presentation evolution. Keep your head on a swivel. Feel the real alive of dangers faced.
So says I, born in late 1952. Do your maths for the many 5-8 years cycles my life's challenges: just too late, too often (30's y.o. in the 80's unable to house/home buy due to Kill-The-Inflation 12-18% home loan interests rates! Had to out wait until into the 40's, then married and with dual incomes. Boomers all had is easy my aching ass.)
Thanks for the Don Shift's books recommendation. An Author I missed adding to my collection.
You; read, re-read Robert A. Heinlein's "Time Enough For Love". Give you a decades perspective. And Ayn Rands "Atlas Shrugged". Give you validation for the direction you have personally shift to now.
Best regards
Steve Unruh
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IĀ“m an economist and I think the biggest problem with the economy is demographics, young people drive innovation and there is a lack of young people, old people donĀ“t innovate and also are more risk averse, this combined with the fact that technological advances makes new capital more expensive (diminishing returns), so the boomer elite prefers to import cheap labour from countries with lower iq and education (thus non innovative "young" people), thus making wages stagnate bc they donĀ“t want to really innovate and create capital, just kicking the economic problem to the future while creating enormous social problems in the present, also if you see debt numbers and inflation they add up with what IĀ“m saying, the low interest rates make capital look cheaper creating false innovation (just look at the BlackRock funds returns numbers bruh), IĀ“m from Chile and we are seeing the same thing here, itĀ“s hard to find a job even from elite universities in good careers and the best money is being earned by politic operators and companies that get government contracts
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00:00 š Challenges of researching and creating videos on civilizations
- Researching new civilizations is more difficult than geopolitics videos, which can build on previous knowledge.
- The speaker has to read many books to develop an intuitive understanding of a new civilization's essence.
- Future videos on Central Asia and the Jews are in the works.
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03:26 š Japan's unique position in world history
- Japan is the second-largest exporter of culture after Anglo-America, through anime, video games, and more.
- Japan has been largely isolated from global trends throughout its history, avoiding major invasions and disruptions.
- Japan's long, continuous history and centralization/decentralization cycles are similar to Germany's political evolution.
10:42 š¾ The land and people of Japan
- Japan is a small, mountainous island nation with a population of 120 million people.
- Japan's limited arable land has led to intensive rice farming and a highly collectivist society.
- The Japanese are known for their social cohesion, attention to detail, and fear of rejection.
14:04 šÆšµ The Japanese character and culture
- Japan is one of the most collectivist societies in the world, with social customs enforcing group conformity.
- The Japanese are highly neotenic (childlike), intelligent, and adaptive, but also neurotic and obsessive about group expectations.
- Japan's cultural strengths of discipline and dedication can also become weaknesses, leading to issues like financial bubbles and an inability to dissent.
22:53 š¤ Japan's rapid change and government control
- Japan can carry out drastic changes quickly with complete determination.
- Japan has had a big government with control over the economy, similar to a socialist system.
- The Japanese economy did well when the memory of WWII was traumatic and the elite was not morally corrupt.
24:46 š The "Chrysanthemum and the Sword" and Japanese duality
- The book "The Chrysanthemum and the Sword" highlights Japan's duality - capable of both stunning brutality and sensitivity.
- The Japanese code of Bushido (samurai chivalry) and Zen Buddhism represent this duality of Japanese civilization.
- As Japan modernized, the samurai class became government bureaucrats, instilling their fanatical loyalty into the population.
27:15 šØ The feminine and masculine aspects of Japanese culture
- Japan can be seen as the most masculine or most feminine culture, depending on the cultural metrics used.
- Japan's obsession with social subtleties and subjectivity represents a feminine aspect, while its prioritizing of achievement, duty, and bravery in war represents masculinity.
- This duality allows Japan to excel in both rational, mechanical tasks and irrational, artistic expression.
30:15 š Why Japan succeeded in modernizing
- Japan is the exception among non-European countries in successfully modernizing and industrializing.
- Factors like Japan's family structure, feudalism, and weaker clan system (compared to the rest of Asia) allowed for more pluralism and innovation.
- Japan's openness to Western influences in the 16th-17th centuries, combined with its ability to rapidly change, contributed to its modernization.
35:06 šÆšµ Japan's demographic challenges
- Japan is facing severe aging and population decline, which will likely impact its current cultural and economic dominance.
- Japan's creativity and status as a cultural powerhouse may be doomed in the coming decades due to its demographic crisis.
- Japan's isolation may force it to change direction, as it lacks neighboring countries capable of colonizing it.
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I share many of the views here.
I consider America, and sadly most of the West, as fundamentally Universalist in their religion. And, so deeply so, that even most people who would call themselves Christian are actually Universalist, and its so engrained they don't know it. At least outwardly.
And, maybe some of this comes from Catholicism, but also humanism, the fact that something had emerged from the West which could take on the whole world presupposes it has a missionary obligation to the world, what else could come out of such an alchemy pot.
I mean, Europe could have a lot more against immigration they it does. But, the question really is; why are they allowed?? That is, I think they are incapable of escaping this abstract.
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For the new Chine's prophet scenario that Rudyard propose's I think there are two posibilty's
1. The Old Man Wanderer/Laozi/Confucius/Classical scenario
Theres start to be a legend in the war-torn country of a mysterious man. Of a man, who wonders in the country-side plaged by bandits and maruders.
Giving advice, spreading wisdom, helping city refuge's, smooth-talking his way from being mugged, and appeasing War Lords to stop harrassing locals. Some say he's just a legend, a Guardian Angle for fallen nation, others as re-incarnation of wise man of old times. Whatever the case is, the movement of pepole, following his example can't be ingnored. Is hope returing in this broken land?
2.Hong Xiuqan scenario
A worker drone, a average Chine's man. He was nothing special, just another cog in the machine. But after suffering a mentall breakdown, after just another bad day, he woke up. Becoming a "street prophet" his message resonted with broken and defeted sipirit of the pepole, he understanded ther pain and his fiery words rekindle the hope and give a promise, determination that "Yes you can and desreve more in this life!" Of course the Party didnt like that there is something different than there vision, so decided to "give him more in the other life". But it was to late. To the pepole he was the next day, a beautyfull sunshine, a new home.
He give them taste of hope and it was to good to give up. His arrest was a spark, and desperation of followers his fule. It was a fire storm entire, country was thrown into chaos, strike's, riots, brutal pacyfication. But then it happend. A group of his
undercover followers tried to free him. And in the mostly improvised escape he died. The rage was insane, a human tsunami of grief. He was the one who give them will to live, and they will show theses demons, whow much it hurts.
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One explanation for this rampaging out-of-control Leviathan (ie. the insane social justice Marxist leftist ideology rampant in society) is dysphoria and insanity from being in an evolutionary mismatch.
Rudyard's "Modern Dating is Broken" video goes over how animals held captive in zoos exhibit similar behavior to modern humans living in industrialized societies (need to use drugs, masturbate excessively, depression, anxiety). Industrialized societies are a kind of captive zoo for humans, and this is causing us similar issues as these zoo animals.
The "Modern Dating is Broken" video also goes over the Universe 25 experiment, where a bunch of rats were placed in a lab environment with unlimited food and water, no predatory animals, and no environmental hazards. The rats reproduced exponentially, and they started to go insane:
-incel rats who can't find a mate would laze about and wallow in depression, while occasionally having violent fits of rage and attack other incel rats (similar to incel humans who do mass shootings)
-Alpha male rats formed harems (similar to hookup culture)
-Mother rats that don't have a male to help them raise their children, would either abandon their children or even outright murder them (thankfully doesn't seemed to have become widespread in humans)
This Leviathan could be an extension of this dysphoria and insanity, partly stemming from living in the unnatural environment that is industrialized society. The Leviathan may be weak in efficacy (ie. it can't get shit done outside of Gossiping-Shaming-Rallying) but it's drive to attack and ruin certainly is not.
A possible long-term solution (though probably impossible to actually implement) is to have designated family towns in rural areas. Rural areas more closely resemble humans' natural environment, and it'll better for children to grow up into adults there than in the human equivalent of a zoo or Universe 25. It could also lower the dysphoria experienced by the parents, which means they could be more likely to not get divorced and be better parents to their kids. These children who grow up in these rural towns will hopefully grow up to be well-adjusted adults who aren't as likely to become radicalized and unleash another Leviathan on society.
Short-term: try to get a remote job, and move to a rural area for a time. It'll hopefully undo the Universe 25-zoo dysphoria. Basically, make yourself less crazy
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Hi Rudy, My comment will probably get buried but I think you suffer because of the nature of being "God". Essentially you've come to similar conclusions as I and many others have throughout history on the universe, or at least on how it applies to conscious beings and this has given you the ultimatum I think you've been working yourself up to be honest with people about. These ideas are both new and not new I'm sure we can agree, going off the idea that we are God/universe experiencing itself infinitely. When reading science literature on the nature of physics or the ancient practices in reasoning on the nature of the universe there always seems to be a basic structure to the ideas that repeats like the spiral of time you mention. I think the future "levels" of consciousness that you speak about; in terms of getting closer to "god" are just more concentrated forms of the soul. I find that in my life and many others, even without noticing that the material and spiritual world are at odds like the duality you talk about that's apparent in all forms and ideas. With the advent of machines and technology, we grow more attached to the material world, which binds are spiritual souls to this world more tightly.
Thinking back on old texts or the religions this always seems to be the contention of humanity in my observations, we are concentrated amalgamations of the universe observing itself. I haven't read anything where one can really explain why living organisms replicate or are animated by processes of proteins or DNA commands other than the formation of elements on an atomic level. To this end I've concluded that their really must be consciousness throughout the entire universe, which permeates everything much like gravity, and the vibrations of fundamental particles, sort of like resonance or concentrations of songs that sing, every song being affected by nearby songs.
I often remember a passage in the Christian bible from Jesus, āIf the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. 19 If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you."
I never post comments on anything, simply lurk. I thought it would be nice to let you know that other people have come to these same realizations about the nature of history and human observation of the universe. The ultimatum for all of us; to me, is really down to the concentration of consciousness you're willing to accept. The material world is a hivemind of diluted consciousness, where as being a "Free spirit" is a singular being that is highly independent . The knowledge of the duality is its own problem, because the two solutions to having absolute control of universe is to be adsorbed by it or control it yourself. The future to me is going to be, as it always seems to have been, a battle between the concentrations of material and spiritual concentrations. Like high function individuals and orderly ant colonies, except this time in will be fought between Materialistic machine cults and spiritual beings as dumb as that sounds.
If I spoke on my personal journeys to these conclusions people will just call me a lunatic, but its really no different to how everyone comes into this ultimatum at some point in their life on what level of consciousness they want to strive for in my opinion. The future to me is highly powerful individuals leaving humanity for an intensity vs concentrated hivemind collectives of people embracing a shared lukewarm state.
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I'm a lawyer, a landlord, I have multiple degrees, I have hundreds of books and hundreds of guns, I have a great home gym setup. I get to spend my days rotating between legal work, shooting, and training BJJ or lifting and hiking. I can out shoot and out fight most anybody I am likely to encounter in any plausible context. I've been to 15 countries and lived in South America for a while. I have basic fluency in four modern foreign languages and Latin. I'm fit, healthy, 6'0 tall, and at close to 40 I have all my hair and have no problem sparring against guys half my age, while usually being healthier and looking more vibrant than them as well. I generally travel where I want when I want, I read what I want, I buy what I want. Life is materially good and physically rewarding and satisfying. I would like to fulfill the higher order needs. I have friends but friends aren't a substitute for an actual family. All of my grandparents are gone, my mother is gone, my wife is gone, and my favorite pet is gone. As I told somebody "in the last 4 years I lost my two surviving grandparents, my wife, and my mother, not to mention my favorite pet. I'm still pushing along and I'm succeeding. I trust in God. It takes a lot to put me down or hold me back." I'm not one to give in to despair. It may sound like bragging but I have very little to complain about. Plenty of people have lost more than me. I could always have more and do better, but I could always have less and do worse. I could be a homeless Palestinian refugee or a destitute tribal warrior in Yemen. I've spent a lot of time training and preparing to be as useful as possible in any potential civil war or revolution. A lot of money was spent as well.
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Ā @ugiswrongĀ the Truth is i only want attetion because I don't have friends, and dad is working and i don't like mom, so I at least can learn a lot of things like, you see I'm speaking English because of my lonelyless you see, i have no friends so i past my time watching educational videos and i learnt English in Duolingo not in school, school in Brazil is a shit, schools in Brazil are just comunist doctrine, my English teacher in school is teaching about verb to be yet, And history teacher just talks about bad capitalism, revolution, these red stuff, And i at least am smart to my age and my nationality, thanks to plandemic
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Rudyard, this 1774 journal entry by John Adams nicely sums up New England's traditional view of the Foundry, I think:
āPhiladelphia with all its trade and wealth and regularity, is notĀ Boston. The morals of our people are much better; their manners are more polite and agreeable ... Our language is better, our taste is better, our persons are handsomer; our spirit is greater, our laws are wiser, our religion is better, our education is better. We exceed them in every thing, but in a market, and in charitable public foundations.ā
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A bit of lack of understanding of Arizona in your video. I am local and can add to the potential areas of medieval civilization in this area.
Phoenix Arizona was built on the Salt River near the conference of the Verde River to the east and the Gila River to the west. Large scale agriculture occurred before it was turned into urban areas.
On the fringe of the urban areas are still large irrigated farm lands. The farmers grow wheat, barley, and root crops in the winter. In the summer alfalfa is grown for a very large dairy industry. Cotton also a major crop. Citrus Fruit and pecan nuts are also important crops.
The irrigated farmland is part of the Salt River project that controls the Salt and Verde River systems. Before the Dams the valley irrigation farmland faced problems with floods but this is not a great problem. Most of the canals were built by an earlier irrigation civilization in the 1200s with simpler technology then medieval Europe.
The Gila River to the south of Phoenix irrigate Pinal County farms. And in the middle gila Safford Arizona is also a large irrigated area.
Mormons founded Safford area and Mesa area east of Phoenix as farming areas. The Mormons control much of the farm land in central and Northern Arizona.
Much of central and Arizona was founded by Mormons as farming or ranching areas. Mormons control or influence would stretch in much of Northern and Central Arizona and probably most of Nevada. They were equally good at setting up farming and ranching communities.
Much of the towns in the mountain areas in central and northern Arizona with forest and grasslands were founded as ranching, timber, mining, and farming areas by non Mormons. So mix areas of small towns along the rivers and cattle and resource harvesting towns in these areas. The Verde Valley with excellent farming and grazing areas would be main area of population north of Phoenix . These communities in this alternative history would also get along with nearby Mormon areas or sometimes be hostile.
Southern Arizona Tucson area has some farming along the San Pedro and Santa Cruz Rivers, and dryland flood irrigation farming along washes. The large grasslands, forest, and desert areas are cattle ranching. It's similar to west Texas and Southern New Mexico.
Western Arizona has extensive farmland currently but with out major Dams to control the Colorado large scale floods would limit the size of farming towns.
Successful farming in Arizona depends in this alternative world on medieval technology ability to create Dams. The Salt River project Theodore Roosevelt Dam was built with cut masonry stones. This would be possible with medieval technology as similar sized Dams existed in that time. The smaller Dams in the project could also be built too.
Large Dams like Hoover Dam on the Colorado probably were not possible with medieval technology.
Forest mountain areas would also be similar to the alpine culture of Europe in Arizona and most of the west. The ponderosa ranch and similar alpine kingdom would occur in mountain areas in the west.
The videos is good and interesting
But lack of details on the mountain west with wide variety of climate, terrain , and potential for different cultures. I can understand if you are not local It's easy to over look these areas. As a Arizona resident I have studied the flora, geography, and how the state developed. A local expert for each state would probably be needed to fill in all the details to build a medieval world in North America.
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šÆ Key Takeaways for quick navigation:
03:37 š« The video aims to explore why the American educational system is expensive, biased, ineffective, and disliked, focusing on primary and grade schools.
05:25 š The speaker argues that our society has become culturally illiterate, citing examples of historical knowledge and literacy levels in the past compared to the present.
06:06 š§ The decline in the complexity of language in speeches, eye-twitching speed as a proxy for intelligence, and other factors suggest a potential decline in intelligence over time.
15:37 āļø The video explores the societal shift towards valuing STEM education over the humanities, affecting the understanding of science, politics, and societal issues.
20:11 š The push for equality in education is linked to industrialization's need for uniformity, affecting how people are educated and potentially contributing to a decline in overall intelligence.
24:09 š« The school system's focus on conformity, docility, and standardization is rooted in historical factors, including the managerial revolution and industrialization.
26:03 š Modern America sees a unique phenomenon where even the elite class pretends to be rebels, leading to an absence of a true ruling class with a clear focus on leadership and decision-making.
29:15 š The uniform structure of education in today's society contrasts with historical practices, where education varied based on factors like geography, social class, occupation, and gender.
32:40 š§ The current educational model tends to suppress creativity and individuality, favoring standardized testing and bureaucratic processes, hindering the development of genuine passion for learning.
42:26 š The education system's shift towards left-wing ideologies, ideological indoctrination, and lack of oversight has led to a decline in educational standards and a betrayal of societal values by some teachers.
47:32 š« Teachers, often high in agreeability, may resort to manipulation due to an inability to assert themselves, contributing to societal issues.
48:12 š Woke culture may have originated from teachers' attempts to manipulate through guilt, influencing societal beliefs.
50:23 šø School environments discourage authenticity, creating a fake and sterile atmosphere where students cannot express honest opinions.
51:18 āļø Modern education systems, favoring compliance and stillness, are designed for women, leading to the feminization of schools and weaker populations.
53:38 š Education restructuring is proposed, advocating for shorter, more practical learning hours, trade schools, and personalized approaches for better results.
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