Comments by "greyone40" (@greyone40) on "TIKhistory" channel.

  1.  @TheMrFu  Tearing down statues would be one of the most visible. Erasing names off of buildings.
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  2. ... as slave labourers!
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  3. There is a recent PragerU video done by Paul Kengor about HitIer. It is only five minutes, so you could forgive him for some omissions, but the thing is just wrong and ignorant, the absolute opposite of TIK's great and deep research. I've heard the name Kengor before as a serious historian of good reputation. After seeing that video, I'm not interested. Many in the comments were calling them out for the terrible research with the maps.
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  4. Once again you have made a video that packs more in it than we could think possible. Unfortunately, the people who really need to see this probably will never watch. The comments on censorship are probably the most important. If we can't have access to information for research, we can never know what really happened in history, or know what is going on today. People who push censorship today really do need to learn the lessons of history. Most mistakes have been made before, and multiple times. We don't really need to repeat them again, but are doomed to do so.
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  5. A good reading list at the end. I only finally read Hazlitt's book a month ago. I have read a few of Sowell's books, which are all excellent. I would have perhaps added Milton and Rose Friedman's "Free to Choose" to the list.
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  6. Socrates would approve. You can also fairly quickly find out if you are wasting your time.
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  7. Back in the late seventies there was a quote from William Craig's book, I think in the rulebook for Squad Leader (Avalon Hill war game). I wanted to read the book but couldn't find it. When the film came along I knew it was my opportunity, because surely they will reprint the book. I'm happy that you didn't say it was junk. The older some books become, the more they are themselves a part of history.
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  8. I took one economics course in 1980 at college. In it, they taught the Philipps curve, which said that you couldn't have high inflation at the same time as high unemployment. It was already proven wrong, obsolete. The supply demand curve, which is not a statistical chart, is pretty much the only graph you need. Market forces are what economics is all about.
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  9. Imagine going into a McDonald's and finding a National Socialist officer behind the workers enforcing party ideology, and with no concern for profits. We have a version of this with the new DEI officers in corporations. it is disastrous and harmful, but also seems to be taking place more or less voluntarily. A bad case in banking would be the regulations that eventually brought the housing crash in 2008, where political aims were enforced above monetary concerns, forcing banks to make loans (sub-prime) to standards that made no sense financially. It ended up causing great harm while supposedly trying to help people.
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  10. You have an incredible work ethic. I am one of the people who has nowhere near caught up with just viewing what you have spent countless hours creating. A Happy New Year to you. Love your work.
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  11. Perhaps I missed it, but could there have been any connection conscious or unconscious with the phrase "work is prayer" (laborare est orare)? This supposedly came from the monks of old. They saw the holiness and virtue building value of work. Excellent video again.
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  12. I remember that one. A friend shared it with me around five years ago, so it is at least that old.
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  13. The natives in North America also had swastikas in their artwork.
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  14. Thank you for doing some deep diving for us. Not only do you provide good analysis, but references are provided should we choose to go further on our own.
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  15. Well said. Also appreciate the help from the native German speakers and other commenters.
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  16. Interesting. I came across some thoughts about Revelation that it is not a prediction of the future in that sense of prophecy. It was hinted at in The Cloister Walk by Kathleen Norris, which is not really a deep dive. Michael Heiser is someone I should be looking into. Thank you.
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  17. "Be curious and ask me to explain it." Best advice that everyone on the internet could take. Fascinating age distribution of your viewers. I am 62 and have been reading history for a very long time, including plenty on WWII. I really like your analysis and methods. Even if I spent the rest of my life reading, I would never catch up to you. There is always going to be some difficulty with all the idioms in the English language. Today's culture isn't helping when they make "what is a woman?" a trick question.
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  18. An interesting proof of the war economy was a photo that I saw years ago and don't remember where. There were two old German made toy trucks. Exactly the same model in cast metal. The one example still looked beautiful, as it had been made well before the war. The other was cracked and had rotten tires because it had been made under the war economy with inferior materials. They had been using the best material for war production, yet trying to continue with the civilian amenities as though the war was not going to cost the people their comforts. Love your videos. Also, many thanks to the supporters who make your efforts possible.
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  19.  @udirt  Thank you. I see references to both. It's kind of found all over the place. I do have a copy of the Rule of St. Benedict, so I'm going to read that and see what's in there. These videos always expand my reading list.
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  20. I don't remember Orwell's coverage of this, which I may have read. Certainly remember reading about it in Solzhenitsyn, within the last year. The first time I heard of it would probably be in the song "Red Army Blues," by the Waterboys.
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  21. And remember, all through the summer of 2020 "antifa" was trying to convince us that the fascists must be the good guys.
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  22. Excellent point. That would require another library of books!
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  23. What do I think? Great video. Many thanks.
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  24. Consider things like the Falklands war, where Argentina tried to flip things around that they were only taking what was rightfully theirs, and tried to call on the United States to join on their side because of a historic pact where the North and South American countries come to each other's defense when one of them is attacked.
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  25. This surprises me to know that this is new to you. Perhaps we have different backgrounds that made me see more of this when I first read Mein Kampf many years ago. You have dug up some good stuff (again!) that has really increased my understanding. Milton Friedman made a good point in a speech which is available on youtube. He contrasted Hitler and Mussolini, saying that Hitler believed what he was saying. You doulc be fine with Mussolini because you could just buy him off, or if you leave him alone he will leave you alone. Friedman understood the distinction because he had read history, so he wasn't just following the popular madman theory that puts the two dictators in the same basket.
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  26. Are we seeing the same sort of miscalculation with respect to Vladimir Putin today? He is being called a madman, and other such insults, yet he is in a bad situation militarily and logistically with respect to the invasion. How might there be similarities in his dealings with his underlings as Hitler did, leading to a mess of a failure situation?
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  27. This is what annoys me about the blanket term "Abrahamic." It should be pretty clear that the Muslim is quite different. It is more as if someone took the earlier writings and used them with modifications to this own purpose (a political one, that died with him). The modern legacy has had some horrific effects.
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  28. When you mentioned insurance companies enforcing the property rights of their clients (something like that) in absence of a government, it brought to mind the "protection" provided by the cosa nostra. The state as a naturally organizing entity will be voluntary for a majority. It was referred to as "a necessary evil" by Thomas Paine. If men were angels, it would not be necessary (Federalist), but as we are going to have crime and grievances, there is going to develop something with courts to decide cases and controversies that are not settled by the contesting parties. if a person loses a case, then the state must have recourse to at least coercion if the loser doesn't voluntarily admit wrongdoing and pay the restitution.
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  29. This spiritual versus material issue was dealt with to a small extent in the film "Kelly's Heroes." Oddball was at odds with his mechanic, yet they were still able to cooperate in advancing to their objective.
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  30. I have heard from others about this history. Dinesh D'Souza has pointed out the connection between American laws and the Nuremberg laws, in that they looked to the segregation laws of the South for inspiration. I do not remember his sources, perhaps one would be the book by Whitman that you quote here. I have heard elsewhere the point made that all of these ideas came from the universities and intelligentsia, it was not something that came from a bunch of backward lower class ignoramuses. An excellent video. It would be interesting to hear more if you want to tackle it.
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  31. Some great content coming up! Especially looking forward to your responses to viewers.
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  32. Always have great respect for your citations of sources, which are precise to the page from your source books and documents. Even giving attribution for friends and subscribers who help you out or ask questions. One of the frustrations of the internet is the misattribution of quotes, or quotes without a reference, and just plain made up stuff.
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  33. I remember first learning about the Holocaust in tenth grade, at which time I would have been 15. I imagine that youtube does the 18+ thing because it's easy to have one dividing line for "age appropriate."
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  34. This is a really good video.
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  35. Really glad to see you made this video. It is a very important topic.
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  36. I love the idea of you being healthier. If you are doing a video like this where you are just saying your opinion or thinking out loud, why not do it while walking down a peaceful forest trail? That way you get outside and hear the birds, and the wind in the trees. We already know what your bookshelves look like.
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  37. I have quite a few old history books, which I consider to be historical artifacts in themselves. One book for instance, "The World War for Democracy," will reflect the attitudes and information that the author at the time (1919) had at the time. For interpretation of reporting in today's media, political considerations are the most reliable predictor of bias. For example, in the recent shooting at an event in Kansas City following the Superbowl game, the identity of the shooter was not given for some time. By this delay, we knew that the shooter was not white.
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  38. This is great news. Not only will you get healthier, but it gives us all a chance to catch up on reading. Your work has been a great source for avenues to look into in history and philosophy.
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  39. I agree about the live debates. On some subjects it can be interesting, but with this stuff (and anything else also) the carefully crafted back and forth is much preferred.
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  40. Paine wisely said that government is a necessary evil. The American founders tried to create a government form that defined the limits of what the government could do. Today it has grown well beyond the legal limits. They had a good understanding of the idea, so it was up to us to follow their wisdom. The trouble with any system is that it must be populated and run by human beings. The best we have so far is the system that is not a system, which is free market capitalism. It requires the rule of law and allows for personal sovereignty.
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  41. What an excellent video. Lots of life lessons and observations. I feel I could give this one multiple likes. Thanks.
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  42. It seems that Churchill should have stuck to speeches, and let others do the generaling. Kind of like that German leader. So the theory of not being better than your enemy, just not being as crap, being the road to victory bears out. A lot of the history changing differences in warfare do tend to come down to small details, like one side has a better rifle that is easy to maintain.
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  43. An interesting film for an example of propaganda is the Nazi-Germany film "Titanic." There is one German on the ship who tries to warn everyone. It has been some time since I have watched it, but I remember that there a lot of the themes in itthat have been described in this video.
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  44.  @occidentadvocate.9759  The wise German on the boat was up against the greedy capitalists who didn't want to slow down for ice warnings. They manage to work some propaganda in there, but it has been some time and I don't remember all of it.
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  45. If you weren't being honest, whatever your viewpoint, you would be bleeding viewers. This was an excellent thoughtful video, which could generate hours and hours of discussion. I hadn't really thought before that you were trying to convince or proselytize people, so much as you were just sharing your interest with like minded people. Sometimes (meaning often) people are not convinced by philosophical arguments and point by point lessons. Powerful arguments can be made through stories. Think of how Jesus taught through parables. They have a lesson/point to them, and you can't pick them apart and analyze them too far, or you get lost in the weeds and miss the point. As for the Garden of Eden story, the premise is that creation is good, and Adam and Eve lack for nothing and face no danger. Somehow things have to get screwed up to get to the world we live in. So they eat of the fruit and become aware. This is where we get the actual state of the world where Mankind has a moral sense, we know good and evil by contrasts. Evil is not an equal opposite of good, it is a corruption of the right use everything in the world. That's my take on it anyway.
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  46. Thank you for this excellent video. You did scare me for a minute when you said you were retiring a catch phrase. I thought it would be the oft said "but is this really the case?" and was relieved to hear that that one was sticking around. It is very important to test conclusions. From what I have seen in your past work, you have always used good test methods for your final conclusions, and this objectivism method doesn't appear to be anything new (for you). I can now say with confidence that my copies of "Hitler's Pope" and "The Myth of Hitler's Pope" are both valid sources.
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  47. Your short videos are valuable too! Condolences on your loss. It's tough when you lose someone close to you. This is exciting to hear you are going to have brought someone along in your historical work. I always like to see someone learn new skills and expand their horizons.
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  48. If you try looking up a contemporary political personality, especially one with a conservative viewpoint, you will see various smears and attempts to associate them with ghostly terms like "white supremacist." There was a case of a person, not necessarily conservative, who tried to correct something on a page about them, but was refused. I do not remember who it was. An interesting experiment would be to look up something that you know a lot about, and compare what you know to what Wiki says. It's generally accepted, as you say, that it is an inaccurate site because of politically motivated editorial. My viewpoint is that if I end up looking for any sort of information there (starting point, as you said), I would not trust anything unless I can verify it from a source such as what TIK goes to, perhaps even an old encyclopedia. TIK had an excellent video about the philosophy and techniques of historians, reliability of sources, etc. Stephen Kotkin discusses some of his vetting methods in his interviews with Peter Robinson at the Hoover Institution as well.
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  49. Unity Mitford? Except that there were no children, and who would be the man who died? Orwell refers to her as being rumoured to be having a baby in his diary entry 14th June, 1940. She had recently returned to England after trying to give herself lead poisoning.
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  50. After watching, it's clear that it was a good idea to make this video. Now you have explained yourself further, and we can hope that more people understand your viewpoint. As a former socialist, perhaps it was your respect and concern for others that turned you from it. An honest socialist, if observing history, would also abandon it after seeing that it does not help people at all, and doesn't lead to a society with solved problems. When you posted the original video about the parallels, it reminded me of the book from some 30 years ago by Alan Bullock who drew parallels in the lives of HitIer and Stalin. Wasn't the film Boys from Brazil based on the premise that a cloned Adolf could be brought up to be a similar leader if they exposed him to the same influences as he matured?
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