Comments by "harvey young" (@harveyyoung3423) on "BRITAIN DISCOVERED & SAVED African, Asian & Indian History. British Museum Must NOT Return Artefacts" video.

  1. Rafe I'm not going to be drawn on this one again. I hope you haven't been indoctrinated by Judith Butlers materialism. You gotta lay of that stuff! Here's the cure: "Herculaneum (/hɜːrkjʊˈleɪniəm/; Neapolitan and Italian: Ercolano) was an ancient Roman town, located in the modern-day comune of Ercolano, Campania, Italy. Herculaneum was buried under volcanic ash and pumice in the Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Like the nearby city of Pompeii, Herculaneum is famous as one of the few ancient cities to be preserved nearly intact, as the ash that blanketed the town protected it against looting and the elements. Although less known than Pompeii today, it was the first and, for a long time, the only discovered Vesuvian city (in 1709). Pompeii was revealed in 1748 and identified in 1763.[1] Unlike Pompeii, the mainly pyroclastic material that covered Herculaneum carbonized and preserved more wooden objects such as roofs, beds, and doors, as well as other organic-based materials such as food and papyrus." (Wikipedia: Herculaneum) Thing is, or should I say the idea is, that the library there buried deep inside and under the volcanic ash is all "preserved". Now Western Civilisation is not so much built on Greek and Roman writing and thought, as on fragments. For example or exemplary of this: much of Aristotle's works are lost and much of what has survived are not his books but notes of his students! And then there are translations and translations of translations. I worked on Stoic logic for some time and what you have there are few pages of what was originally a massive voluminous collection. Lots of other Stoic thought has been lost, much that we have are actually accounts of their arguments by people intent on its elimination. Not really a reliable foundation. Maybe that's our problem. A foundation built on drunken student notes and straw manned quotes. Based on a documentary and some pub washroom gossip with a proper Aristotelian Scholar i can tell you, they will be able to read the "books" in that library. Catch is, its going to take them like a hundred years of forensic archelogy to bring them "back to life". Maybe them forensic archaeologists all ought to get a bit of move on. Perhaps modern "civilisation" will destroy itself fighting over their ownership or maybe we will have new solid foundations for the Idea of Western civilisation. I went to see all the Ancient Artefacts at the the British Museum. i looked in the guide to find which floor they were on. Jokes aside they are breath taking to experience in real life. Pictures just do not do the scale justice as viewed from a human point of view.
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  2. Following up on a reference in a Chat during tonight's Novara Media live program I have started to watch the movie Titanic. I saw it years ago but in them days I used to watch them inebriated if i was not a big fan of the actors, which then I wasn't. I didn't like the film I had hardly watched and it seems i had missed the entire beginning scenes too. Herculaneum of course could be described as a grave yard as well as a library resource for us to put to use. It looks like i still have much to learn, or unlearn.
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  3. Talking about me "still having much to learn, or unlearn" I mentioned your video to my Dad, and my clever response above. Hew as not as impressed as i would have have thought. It started a long discussion. Because he has seen the Elgin marbles up close and the stuff in the basement i was on about. He talked about seeing them together, and thought that was essential too. That the "meaning" (my words for what I think he had in mind) involved seeing how they relate to each other, or to understand them as a picture a whole. He talked about another object, that he said made no sense on its own, its context with other objects was absent subtracted so its meaning was completely lost. Perhaps i can clever that, with Frege's reference without sense? a loss of hermeneutic objectivity. it put me in mind of the early Christians burning down the Ancient library's, and so destroying their own context of interpretation, unless perhaps you are a Kierkegaardian. I think that is the Ancient question does a Christian fist have to learn Judaism, before being or becoming a Christian? Mum and Dad have also being to the Pyramids of Egypt. We talked about the difference between me seeing or being before the giant super human statues in the British Museum basement; and them being before the Pyramids. The first might be a personal individual sublime of super human scale, and the latter must be a sense of a super cultural political and social organization. Dad was a builder. From there then the fourfold contrasts and differences multiply to another sublime like laws and political systems and so on. I'm too tired to go there so i'll leave that for others for now. I got to have a break for now folks, get me a box of Kit Kats and watch some cat videos. Later's p.s I've written a lot on Bayes theorem for Novara Media and i will post it to your channel as soon as.
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