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  1. My father once said: Only you can choose to be happy or to be sad. Only you can make life a miserable shit hole or a beautiful fairytale.
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  2. Wouldnt be surprised if boomers birthed real life Slaanesh, hope it consumes every one of their souls too
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  3. Rudyard if you actually see this comment I'm very interested in an analysis on our current global elites and how they have influenced modern society, what differences they have with past elites and what their future may hold.
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  4. “The Left is just doing the opposite of the Nazis” “Well the Nazis were evil!” “And they were bested by the Allies who were also racist, sexist and hyper masculine”
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  5. I´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 don´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 don´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 I´m saying, the low interest rates make capital look cheaper creating false innovation (just look at the BlackRock funds returns numbers bruh), I´m from Chile and we are seeing the same thing here, it´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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  6. Rudyard, the reason why modernity has a knee-jerk “no” reaction is because it believed itself to be the end of history, thus it cannot emotionally handle being shown as a failed worldview.
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  7. HEY that's the bethlehem steel mill! I used to work for the company that did a whole bunch of new construction around there. Man I can't believe you were in bethlehem!
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  8. I think it's important to point out that there's a vicious cycle between bureaucracy and leftist alienation, which is that being in bureaucracy is wildly alienating even if it's not aimed at leftist ends and therefore produces the sorts of people who promote bureaucracy even beyond their own obvious interest in preserving their bureaucratic position. Green leftism isn't inherently beneficial to Big Oil, for instance, but Big Oil is heavily bureaucratic and therefore produces influential figures who are generally in favor of bureaucratic control. Decentralized systems, in contrast, undercut that dynamic by promoting personal agency and individual relationships. And that suggests that the best way to exorcise the all-devouring specter of the left is to replace centralized bureaucracy with distributed networks.
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  9. You should make a Whatifalthist-branded Tulip NFT, so at least you can have a laugh when it crashes the economy in 30 years...
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  10. Somebody's caught up on their Manly P. Hall!
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  11. this is what happens when saturnists are in charge
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  12. The people that would choose living in the USSR over Nazi Germany if you asked them, basically.
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  13. I don't know if you'll ever be able to read this, but I'm deeply touched by this vid. I wrote the infinite perspective pamphlet/brochure thing. You might have just come the perspective on your own, but in the event you didn't, I'm glad that metaphor reached someone. I'm really glad that you included honor and courage where HM refused. I've been doing quite a bit of reflection outside and I don't really know what's important and what isn't. I find myself crying over things some would consider trivial while being completely unaffected by things that others find increasingly important. Because of this, and my awareness that the universe is basically just a continuation of the self, I can't in good conscience do anything except self or others defense - and only in regards to actually seeing it take place in front of me and reacting to that - and only in a nonlethal manner unless certain conditions are met. I've been hit by a vehicle while walking. I've been bullied all my life. I'm crazy. I'm living in an RV on disability. I can't do squat but enjoy the sun and trees and talk. So I'll talk until I can't talk. I'll exercise and keep working it here, and just keep trying to enjoy life as I can. I agapeo you, Rudyard. Good luck with the revolution! I hope it's bloodless and lovely.
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  14.  @ugiswrong  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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  15. It seems to me that the modern elite are incapable of feeling humbled. At least the elite of centuries past would be humbled before god.
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  16. What starts as a cynical ploy becomes what the next generation earnestly believes. It is not a thing isolated solely to religion.
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  17. Humans are rational, but only as a last resort. Humans are fundamentally emotional and superstitious.
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  18. 25:41 "Okay, Christians, how do I be good?" "Follow the Ten Commandments and the teachings of Jesus" "Okay Liberals, how do I be good?" "Do as I say! No, that's what I said yesterday, I've sine changed my mind - do as I say RIGHT NOW! Wait, you're inherently evil, you CAN'T be good so just just up, accept that you're evil and starve yourself to death after giving away all your worldly possessions to me and the others on this list here."
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  19. This video is only tangentially about inkwells. It's mostly about civilizational cycles and elite political theory. Kudos for putting into a flashy, dramatic pill to swallow.
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  20. Maaaan im Turkish but i really think you believe in a future gigachad Turkish empire more than me ahaahhahahaha. You really gave me chuckles with the world of the future if don't fix our birth rates.
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  21. Your channel is an inspiration ✨️ 🙌 I wanna start a you tube channel like this.. focusing on history... geography and or engineering marvels. I like being anonymous and still creating content.. how did you start? Did you take any history in college?
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  22. Darwinists are too hated, Christians too cowardly, tech bros too naive and marxists too stupid.
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  23. It's funny in a way. Britain calling Ireland and India overpopulated and the famines being thier fault when Great Britain couldn't domestically produce enough food to feed it's population.
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  24. White people be like: I’m 60% German 30% Irish 8% Cherokee 2% Milk
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  25. This reminds me of the late Soviet economy, but with better marketing and statistics
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  26. Will joining this group ungay me?
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  27. 🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:00 📚 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. 01:40 🎮 Introducing War Thunder, a free-to-play vehicle combat game - War Thunder offers immersive combined arms PVP battles with over 2,000 historically accurate vehicles. - The game features realistic damage models without hit points, creating an immersive experience. - New players can get a free bonus pack with exclusive vehicles, boosters, and more using the speaker's link. 03:26 🌏 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 🗾 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 🇯🇵 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 🤝 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 📚 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 🎨 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 🌍 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 🇯🇵 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. Made with HARPA AI
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  28. Another name I've heard for the Closed Loop hypothesis is the Wizard's Circle. It's the same concept of being right by definition, but it adds that delicious tribal signifier as well.....'>.....
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  29. I might have told a couple people locally about your' channel. Missouri per capita 😅
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  30. Dear God. Rudyard, you ironically just paraphrased Bruce Lee.... In part, at least. Even more Ironically, as part of your argument on the importance of a civilization being able to adapt and keep up with the chaos it faces. Like water.
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  31. > the great irony of ruling classes of slavers and slaves Armed slaves stop being slaves the minute they realize they don't have to take orders, because they have most of the weapons and trained military personnel in your society
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  32. The example of the intellectuals also applies to much academic art and design in the West since the development of photography, lithography, modern paints and sound recording. Before they could make the art or designs that way, they had to invent a narrative of how the masses were naturally wrong about what they wanted in art and design. The problem is that this narrative proved false, if the masses really were wrong about what they wanted in art and design, they should have already found that out by the middle of the 19th century, which they had not. In their pride, these intellectuals made a deal with the Devil to be able to produce new work, but the Devil only made them able to produce new work in a way that “took back” the canon.
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  33. Who knew the hand you write with could mean so much.
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  34. Going to bring up a new form of right. Hindu (and to a lesser extent Buddhist in SEA) nationalism. This is interesting because it takes the most 'left wing' religious ideologies and slaps them on a right wing movement, differentiating it from Muslim/Christian right wingers. Fundamentally reactionary in origin; its morphing into a beast of its own. It combines elements from German right and British right (many of these movements have a strong pro-industry focus and an emphasis on private material wealth as a means to power, glorifying billionaires and acquisition of wealth which is ironic given the fundamental beliefs these ideologies formed around called for the rejection of just that). This is very much a work in progress ideology; and a lot of it is yet to be defined. But I'm quite positive this ideology will play a large part in the world in the next 50 years given how India and SEA is growing. Another point on the side: In the 90s, I genuinely thought the west was going Indian. As a society generates massive wealth you mentioned 2 options : Mob rule or Ceaserism. The 3rd option is spiritual renunciation; which in turns leads to poverty and weakness due to general dysfunction. At the peak of the hippie movement, I thought this was happening to the west; a wealthy society whose fastest growing ideology was a rejection of the same. But alas, it looks like the west has taken a different path and as it stands now Ceaserism or mob rule seem to be the strongest contenders. But who knows, spirituality might make a comeback.
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  35. And yet they all seem to want to immigrate to the U.S. (except for the Chileans).
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  36. Well, I don't think LA will end like Hattusa. Major ports tend to continue to survive and thrive no matter what happens politically, while inland capitals chosen for mere strategic utility tend to fall apart when the empire that built them dies and the strategic utility disappears.
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  37. Whatifalt Carry’s my work commutes.
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  38. Your point about nature crying out in Macbeth brings sense into Lion King and the Pride Lands becoming a wasteland after the murder of Mufasa, then being magically restored literally the moment the murderer is himself killed.
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  39. I’ve seen the same thing. Last summer I met a girl on Snapchat the day after I got out of school. A day later we hung out and we lasted until mid November. So it was roughly 6 months. I’m a senior and she’s a junior. That whole time she was always glued to her phone. She wanted, as she said it, a “tik tok” relationship that’s always fun and lighthearted and do tik tok stuff. My god was it maddening. We ended up breaking because she made several bad decisions at once, partially due to social media, and she became too demanding of my attention. Anytime I tried to work on our relationship she burst into tears. She suffered from social anxiety definitely in part to social media.
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  40. The "Ted Talk" episode you may not have been expecting.
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  41. 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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  42. A lot of great testimonies in the comments here only for the top reply to those testimonies being, "did you know you can actually just do this". The real world doesn't allow you to just use a tiktoc hack to dramatically improve your life because there are things like religion, logic, and science that exist. The average Whataltifhist viewer would be better off if they embraced actual humility and meekness instead of darwinism and self aggrandizement. The only way you can hope to be different than the modernists and breadtubers is through faith. To those who gave testimony of their lives today, thank you so much!
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  43. I've been saying that adding too many people in the workforce was a strongly detrimental practice far before Trump and much before Obama.
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  44. 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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  45. I like his comment about euthanasia in Canada. Here is a typical response here in Canada Caller: I am having suicidal thoughts Gov't counselor: We can help you with that
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  46. 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, “If 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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  47. u must have went to high school in PA
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  48. Who else took the time to add all of althists books to their wish list
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  49. In the meantime, you can be entertained with the "South Korea is a Cyberpunk Dystopia" video.
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  50. Good job weeding out "and the like" from your scripts. But now you've replaced it with "and more" 😁
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