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  16. 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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  24. 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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