Comments by "William Cox" (@WildBillCox13) on "Getting OWNED over Hitler's Socialism" video.
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Dear TIK:
Character assassination is not reserved for any particular point of view.
I'm an on the fence viewer who enjoys all your content and often links it around-even when I am not convinced. Politics and economics are not my field(s) of study. The reasons nations go to war, however; especially the rhetoric versus reality; have been a source of ongoing fascination of mine in the four and a half decades of my majority. To say I have read all the traditional narratives is probably fair. As an old man, I recognize I am likely conservative in some views and likely to cling to classic analyses, rather than openly embrace the new revisionism.
Of these, I feel "Big Skedaddle" Werth and "I was there" Shirer are worthy of review. Chuikov and von Mellenthin are also read-worthy. Rommel and von Luck make more topically exciting reading (yes, even Infantry Tactics). Von Manstein teaches us the power of self-aggrandizement. Zhukov is Soviet command accounting* at its finest.
Speer and Doenitz (especially his postwar debriefing) are excellent apologists, though regarding their accounts, these contain many useful details I am likely to believe.
Ciano and Halder are monsters. Civilized, cultured, monsters. I discount their spin on everything, though am usually interested in the what, why, and how, of their presentations.
After all this, plus reading on Weimar, WW1 (dolchtoss lives on in Westmorland's account of Vietnam), Bismarck (the first true rock star), the Krupp vs Roon scandals, Franco Prussian war histories and more, I am still learning and not ready to declare myself a partisan of any vector of conformation bias.
With that as preamble, I can only say that, as with paleontology, there are fads in belief that permeate all epochal analyses. In fact, the harder the community hits back, the more careful I am with what I read. Velikovsky was right on so many levels, all while the stars of the scientific community threw rotten tomatoes at his ideas of an 'active universe". The bigger fools they.
My point? Keep reading, keep listening, learn to debate the points without passion or fanboi pressing. Keep your mind open and never, ever, buy into someone's account simply because you like the photo on the cover . . . or it's his (a favorite author's) next book in a series. This means you, TIK, and all the rest. And me.
In conclusion I reiterate: I enjoy and am informed by your content even when I am not altogether convinced. And don't forget to have fun . . . you'll only be young a short while.
For the rest, bashing without making any useful points is empty of meaning. Minecraft needs griefers. Try that a while, instead. You're welcome.
*As with Halder, so it goes with Zhukov concerning "the leader was an ass and I told him so on the spot . . . errrr . . . more or less."
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