Comments by "Curious Crow" (@CuriousCrow-mp4cx) on "The 400 Year Rise u0026 Fall of The UK" video.

  1. The UK may be here but it's role in global affairs is very much diminished. The only really influential artefact of that empire is the pervasive influence of English. What we have left is a remnant of what was before. Even as late as post-world War I, the writing was on the wall, as the Americans put a massive hole in the British Economy. That after Britain's rivals catching up industrially, was the beginning of the end of Britain's global hegemony. Wevre here, but not in the driving seat as before. And with many problems that we have no influence on. After all, the Americans dominated the global economy, and set its agenda. We could only adapt to that shift in influence, and arguably we're still working on that. And as our economy shifted away from manufacturing to a service economy with less security and pay for workers, and embraced neoliberalism and financialisation, that made us especially vulnerable to 2008. And we've seen people get angry about globalisation, a process which we helped to begin by having an empire. But it's always hard to deal with such a change. It's just the boot is on the other foot now, and making the best of that is all we can do. And that means not sitting on our laurels, and being prepared to start afresh without taking anything for granted.
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  2. It was organic, and evolutionary, and by the time England had an empire the tribe I think you refer to were dust and atoms.
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  3. This is isn't AI generated. You have aspirant artefacts from breathing, correct phrasing in emphasis and volume, and variations in speed. In short, a human voice. What you really have is a voice over that was poorly recorded, and the editor probably didn't have the audio engineering skills to fix it in post-production.
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