Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Whatifalthist" channel.

  1. I don't think you have the best take on historical mistreatment of women. Things were also tough on men in the past, too. There just aren't many of us who were first out of the trench left to talk about how THEY were oppressed (and brainwashed into thinking being first was a good idea). The so-called "patriarchy" was the distillation of all strategies tried by both men and women, together, and what resulted was the "fittest culture" to survive and/or spread. We have traditional roles for a lot of good reasons. Not all those reasons are good. The patriarchy does provide niches for some pretty pathological men. Men who think "honor and cherish" means it's only the WOMAN who must "honor and OBEY." But in real life, for most couples, "cherish" means the man spends most of his time obeying his wife's wishes - even trying to anticipate them! A good, traditional marriage, is the imperfect best for the most people possible. I think the proliferation of high-paid jobs for women changes the landscape, and we still haven't adjusted to it. Being a single Mom still sucks, and denies the next generation a healthy male role model in the home, in a healthy relationship with the mother. Women are still genetically programmed for hypergamy. Women still risk more in the act of sex and child-bearing. Men still care more about physical attraction, fertility, and innocence than about how much money a woman brings home. I don't think the traditional way is necessarily the best way, but it's better than single parenting. As a college prof, I've seen a number of "married-young-and-raised kids" women show up in college. They have their (mostly) grown children, they know (better than 18-year-olds) how to work, and they're still in their 30s, which is young enough to take a career as far as they wish. Of course, after raising kids, they're MUCH wiser about how much of their home life they're willing to give up to the law firm or the corporation. This will still keep them out of the top spots that only an unhealthily career-centric man is likely to have. So I don't see the gender pay gap going away any time soon. This is not necessarily bad for women. Who wants to die of a stroke at age 50? I think the younger generation aren't perfect, but they're sorting some things out. Their access to information far exceeds my generation's. You'd be amazed at how many people are graduating high school semi-literate, who decide in the 20s to figure things out, and educate themSELVES in things I couldn't imagine at their age. "I made that plastic piece for the shelves on my 3D printer, last night." The hinges on Pandora's Box were sprung millennia ago. Call it the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, or whatever you want. That thigh bone club really helped in the hunt, even though it was also used a time or two on the skull of a neighbor. It's all trade-offs, man. It was never perfect. It's not perfect. But human progress continues, mostly in spite of us.
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  2. It's not just the conservatives they're going after. Leftists who call out the war machine or challenge the established order in any significant way are also de-platformed. If they didn't de-platform sincere conservatives and progressives, we'd find a LOT that both sides could agree on, which would be the exact opposite of what establishment leaders of "both sides" agree on. There's a HUGE middle that is being ignored by the two major political parties, because the broad middle is actually a threat to the establishment. A threat to the quid pro quo that goes on in the halls of Congress and between regulatory agencies and the corporations that captured them.
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  3. Most of the so-called 'right' are the actual liberals; whereas, the so-called 'liberals' who run the establishment are the current 'right wing reactionaries.' So many sacred cows they defend with dogma, just like the Christian 'right' who gave them the right to challenge the establishment, 60 years ago. The so-called 'left' is much more censorious and reactionary than the supposed right-wing reactionaries of 60 years ago. When you BECOME the establishment, you are no longer a liberal activist. You're something else.
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  4.  @brianjackson9801  Person is smart. People are stupid.
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  5. Yes. They seek to "perfect humanity," so their utopia will work. No. It's not democracy that allows us to evolve. It's fundamental truths that operate over long spans of time and geography. Democracy, without law, is bread and circuses and burning cities. A stable rule set, guaranteeing the rights of all CAN operate indefinitely, until and unless the people vote for Free Stuff from the government, paid for out of government proceeds. The desire for free stuff is endless. The resources available are finite. We elect men who tell us there's plenty and all they need is a tiny slice off the top, to solve all our problems. Generations of such politicians puts you where we are, now. The U.S. Constitution is - so far - humanity's best attempt at self-governance, with strict limits on central government's power and authority. This makes it an obstacle to those who seek power or believe in instant solutions to the human condition. So the Constitution is being circumvented and many want to do away with it, rather than return to its main guiding principles and strict limitations on federal power. Nobody wants to really change the direction we're headed, because too many of us see short-term gain in running the country into the ground so THEY can get THEIR free thing.
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