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  1. Just looking at the thumbnail, the 1st one reminds me of the bunch of West African countries that negotiate decolonization from France, the 2nd seems to be the British Northeastern part with the Nile etc at its peak, & the 3rd seems to be the British Southern part extending into German Namibia after WW1
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  2. We become an Empire in 1898, when we took the title of empire from Spanish Empire, the cycle of Empire, it doesn’t matter the problems we have. The cycle of Empire can’t be stop!
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  3. Standing in front of a Mark Rothco work and crying: exactly my reaction when I’m told this piece of flimflam is worth $85 million.
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  4. Find someone who loves you as much as Whatifalthist hates lil pump
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  5. The German Cycle: 1 come up with an idea that involves extreme top-down micromanagement 2 become self-righteous about it because you know you're so very very smart and everyone should adopt your cool idea 3 start a fight with everyone who won't try your cool idea 4 almost win with your over-engineered wonder weapons 5 lose anyways because you over-engineered everything and got too arrogant 6 feel extremely sorry for yourself and have an identity crisis 7 in the depths of your depression, go back to step 1
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  6. I love that you highlighted that self-compassion, forgiveness, humility, and celebrating others are antidotes to this common trend. It's not cool to not like things. It just isn't. Being passionate or supportive is extremely cool and we need more of it. I love so many things about this planet! A simple bite from an apple makes me extremely glad to be alive -- who would hate on an Apple? Or if apples aren't your thing, there are so many others to choose from. It's a simple example, but it's an important one to illustrate that you don't have to listen to trends or society or anything at all about the quality of your existence. If you love your life, as simple or bare or unimpressive as it seemingly may be, then you've found true gold. Whoever you are reading this -- you are loved, you are seen, and you are great. I'm a fan. Please don't let anyone tell you otherwise. <3
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  7. As a man who grew up in a westernized post-soviet central asian country, recently I came up with an interesting idea of all the post enlightenment phylosophy being somewhat nihilistic. Society here is practically divided into those who want to emulate western leftists and those who oppose them by emulating western rights. Recently I started to suspect that almost all modern ideologies have their roots in european enlightenment. Now I am trying to rationalise a fully independent tradition that does not measure everything by western moral compass. Interestingly, when I studied at one of the few western-style universities here, I meet a guy who claimed to be a conservative. After few questions I realised that by being "conservative" he didnt mean wanting to preserve local culture and tradition, but just repeated american conservative takes as a broken tape. For me western conservatism is just an old version of liberalism, which is regarded as being the way of tradition in US due to it being an intial starting point at the time of nation's formation. Didnt take long until we disagreed on many subjects and he casually labled me as a fundamentalist, which I am totally ok with.
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  8. The Kali Yuga era of this show is really something else
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  9. I think we've officially entered the rat utopia experiment
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  10. Shoot. If the pay gap were real, I’d hire all women and I’d pay them an extra 10 cents to work naked for me and I’d STILL be ahead of my competitors.
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  11. Consumerists be like: We will make a new utopia around young people consuming and screwing with strangers. Then young people will never want to fight again. Reality be like: Large scale child abuse/neglect leads to inefficiency and stagnation. Overconsumption times inefficiency equals ecological collapse.
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  12. i see a lot parallels and polarities between what you describe as steppe anti-civilization and modern anti-civilization. -both emerged with the advent of new technologies, that being horse pastoralism and industrialism/capitalism. -both act as predatory and extractive forces upon other civilizations whilst also being dependent upon them. doing imense damage to them though their predation. -both are emergent phenomena arising from a particular context which produces the same incentive structures, the steppe or certain high trust high cultural capital societies, but which don't fit the pattern of emergence that other civilizations have. -have worldviews without clear axial age beliefs and practices. -one is fluid in its nature while the other is mechanistic -one destroys people largely physically while the other largely spiritually and psychologically -one grows primarily through masculine force while the other feminine seduction -one emerged around the same time that the other died. and probably a bunch of others i cant think of off of the top of my head.
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  13. Look how far you have come Rudyard, bravo. I have kept up with your content since early on.. it would seem you have a following of young men who you are helping to understand the current age and the chaos of it.. I have always been a student of history, my entire life, and hold a staunch opposition to cultural Marxism and communism.. I am a father of two, married for two decades.. I have been concerned with what I have watched transpire the last decade.. as a father of course not only make my children aware of these parlous times and how to understand it, I play a role in their education.. considering the state of both private and public education.. it seems the best choice. These last year I have been hoping to see a shift in people realizing what is happening.. at last I can see it taking root, people are finally connecting the dots. I may hold a district representative office in the coming years.. I see the potential need for opposition to these Marxists who infiltrate literally everywhere.. but here leftist activists are well funded and psychotic.. they will never stop, and they will never leave you alone.. keep fighting the good fight Rudyard..
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  14. Anything wholesome makes modern society insecure about its own bitterness and bad behavior. But actual, personal acts of love is what makes the whole thing worth doing.
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  15. Every day Whatifalthist uploads is like Christmas.
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  16. I think Argentina is pretty much "what if the Confederacy survived" in a nutshell.
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  17. I wish I was a country so that I could be in this video.
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  18. Last time I was this early the Arabs were good at war
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  19. Something I've finally jerried onto. In the English speaking world we have a habit of rewarding bad behaviour while punshing good behaviour. If your at the top making risky investments etc. You get rewarded with tax concessions minimal oversite and so on but at the other end if you want to be unproductive and not contribute. You get concessions, welfare checks. If your the average Joe in perfect health just trying to live modest with the 9 to 5 you get screwed. Maximum tax zero concessions.. our society has reached a point where if you don't exploit the system WILL exploit you.. our society is going to suffer badly for milking out the middle class. The most productive group in society
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  20. I’m 27 but in my “young” life I can’t 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 corporation… 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 don’t 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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  21. Right now my goal is not to get a great job, get married, and start a family, but to do my best to prepare myself mentally and get my crap together so I can weather this coming recession and come out the other side.
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  22. I think it's interesting how absolutely every virtue is either actively under attack or downplayed. Honesty? Offensive to the core. Humility? Death sentence. Patience? Waste of time/ignoring the problem. Chastity? Passé. Mercy? Weakness. Gratitude? Alien. Courage? Falsified. Inquisitiveness? Impugnation. There is not permitted a single way to be good. Actual evil is excused or "made gray." Reality, which checks all delusions in time, is fashioned into an illusion. Bureaucracy is the road to hell.
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  23. My favorite method for these times is to assume anything is more or less the complete opposite of what it seems or the consensus narrative. For example: Spain extracted a lot of gold from the Americas. Sounds like wealth right? Well all that gold caused painful inflation back home in Spain. It's hard to have a mono-polar outcome, things find balance. It's like the world is a chess game and our society plays it one turn at a time vs. working to win the whole game.
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  24. Unrelated but I just wanted to say I tried the CIA's meditation program on your recommendation and it's been life changing bro. I've experienced things so far beyond what I ever would have thought is possible and it happened almost immediately upon using that program. So in other words, thanks lol.
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  25. On the topic of religion, I think China is ripe for prophets to establish new religious expressions. China already has a rich religious tradition but its varied and disorganized. It has a millennia old stories, gods, practices, and other things that would be coopted by a new religion. It will probably contain elements of buddhism, daoism, and/or christianity
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  26. Usually I leave a critical comment that points out all the things I disagree with. But no, I think he hit the nail on the head. The fact that this came out of a 20 year old means that he is either really freakin smart or working with a team of smart people.
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  27. "A fish in a pond cannot judge its place in the world." -Rudyard 2023 I've used that axiom in philosophical conversations for years. "Like a fish in a pond." Great work as always. Liked and shared. Godspeed. 🙏🏼🌟
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  28. 6:44 That map is true, especially for the upper classes, but peasant women were very much active figures in their society. If you recall, aristocratic Chinese women footbinded themselves as to distinguish them from the active Chinese peasant woman. Or the tough-working prairie women in the Wild West, in which Western states were typically some of the earliest states to give women the right to vote. Even traditional Appalachian women are pretty tough people (source: J. D. Vance's "Hillbilly Elegy"). I get the feeling that widow burning is a mercantile/aristocratic thing (it doesn't make much sense for a poor Indian farmer to lose valuable manpower by killing his wife). Basically, there's always a distinction in most societies between sequestering rich aristocratic women and commoner women sharing a similar amount of responsibilities to tending the land as her husband (due to manpower issues or the husbands killing themselves in wars or brawls that seriously injure them).
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  29. With the complete lack of authority invested in me, a retired senior intelligence analyst, I confer onto you Mr. Rudyard an honorary intelligence analyst certification. It's worth absolutely nothing and cannot be used on any resume, but still tries to capture the level of excellence in your research and analysis. Thanks for sharing another great analysis video on critical aspects of current human history in the making 😎
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  30. I like your channel because it goes against my inherent biases and makes me think introspectively and reconsider my positions on many things. You do great work, keep it up :)
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  31. Yup. I have to watch this twice or thrice to understand and soak in fully. And I am an engineer who watches 24/48hr long videos for certain projects in a stretch. Yet, the amount of ideas and the things I want to write down are way too many. Never in my life have I been more...in a state of trance than this video. So many 'oh damn, this makes sense', it really really...explains so many things that I always pondered about. Amazing work. Never stop. God bless.
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  32. My name is Thomas….25 years old. In a 8-5 soul sucking corporate job. Stopped drinking and going out to bars last year and as a result all my “friends” no longer ask me to hangout. All I have is family, working out, and some hobbies but none of it suffices. When did society decide it was optimal to have jobs be at a computer/desk all day, absent of nature and have all social activity revolve around alcohol?
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  33. You will enjoy this video, or else Society will not approve, if you don't enjoy this video Yeah, I enjoyed this video, so what? Ugh, I can't believe you didn't enjoy this video I really ought to enjoy this video It's not fair you enjoyed this video and I didn't What will people think, if I don't enjoy this video?
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  34. I'll never forget the Aussie version of Survival Island (or whatever it was called) in which the men jumped a cayman and beat it to death, then paraded its carcass around their island.
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  35. As my dad used to say... Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
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  36. Okay... now make it a massively multiplayer first person shooter with 4 factions....
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  37. You guys are all so smart, I envy you
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  38. This comment section explains why these teachings were kept secret.
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  39. This video reminds me about how similar the modern left is to a depressed person. If you didn’t know depressed people: 1 often have better recollections of the past then those who aren’t depressed. 2 often resent there parents more then none depressed people. 3 are usually more likely to be suicidal. Now let’s contrast these to what the left currently does. The left: 1 Brings up past atrocities more often then the right. 2 Hates colonialism and the Puritanism founding culture of America, as well as the founders themselves which are literally the fathers of America. 3 are the ones currently going through the worst of this health crises. Societies and moments are made of people, and if the people aren’t happy it will reflect in there movements. However, there is good news, studies show that once people stop being depressed, they go back to being on similar levels of trust in parents and memory recall as those who were never depressed. If the left can make it over this hump, they might just be proud of there countries again…
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  40. You should connect with Dr. Koontz of the Brief History of Power podcast. He grew up in the rustbelt as well. As such, he was confused when he met people saying everything was collapsing. He thought to himself, "what do you mean...hasn't it ALREADY collapsed?" He's got an amazing grasp of history and human nature. I think you two would have an amazing conversation.
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  41. "people are losing the ability to think rationally" the state of arguing today goes like this: >"this is a general rule that applies to this group" >"BUT I KNOW AN EXCEPTION AND I HAVE SEEN SOME WHO DON'T FIT INTO THAT CATEGORY! SO IT'S NOT TRUE" >"but this is a general rule, there will always be exceptions" >"YEAH EITHER WAY I DON'T THINK THAT'S TRUE SO HERE'S WHAT I THINK (opinion completely based on delusion or false conclusions)"
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  42. I really enjoyed this deep dive into the three ideologies of the 20th century. A surprisingly good book on this topic is Homo Deus by Yuval Harari. While the title and back of the book looks like he will examine future ideas, in reality 80% of the book studies these three ideologies. I have issues with Harari's stark materialist worldview, but Homo Deus is really fascinating book
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  43. As a 20 year old I feel incapable of moving forward. I got a electrical certificate and found I didn't know what to do from there It's likely a personal failing,but it's hard to see a good way though the darkness.
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  44. This is literally 1984.
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  45. :) It was a lot of fun to do
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  46. I'm not American, but a Brazilian with Chinese ancestry in my early 20's. Tom's life described mine so much. It make me cry. The only things that keeps me going are religion and some addictions, but even those aren't working anymore.
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  47. I just finished "The Great Wave" and it's stunningly good, but I remind you of Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire". Rome was broke and broken in 249 AD, but lingered in turmoil until 476 AD. America may have broken in 2008 but we can limp along in denial for another 200 years existing in name only while the spirit of our nation was gone 60 years ago. Sad.
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  48. For those who want a deeper dive, can't more highly recommend Dan Carlin's Wrath of the Khans podcast. Almost 20 hours, well sourced and absolutely badass.
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  49. Now cult of kindness, please
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  50. Dude I made the mistake of seriously debating a communist and they went from saying "UBI is an absolute necessity to free people from oppression" to saying "enslaving the American farming class is totally justifiable for the greater good" in less than 5 minutes. Not to mention the continual digs at my lower class background and ethnicity.
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