Comments by "Peter Jacobsen" (@pjacobsen1000) on "Johnny Harris"
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10:20 "This moment (when Columbus took Cuba for Spain) is the foundation upon which all European imperialism grows".
This is simply a false statement! Imperialism, European or otherwise, was the rule of the day for the first 5000 years of human civilization. It is really only in the last 70 years, since the establishment of the UN, that we have mostly agreed on the principles of 'national integrity' and 'territorial inviolability'. Anybody ever heard of the Roman Empire? Ottoman Empire? Russian Empire, Swedish Empire, Viking conquests, Mayan Empire, Chinese Empire, Mali Empire, Gupta Empire, Inca Empire, Khmer Empire, Persian Empire, Egyptian Empire, Mesopotamian Empire? The standard throughout history is conquest and empire. Peace and cooperation is an entirely new idea. Brand new!
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Joe Rogan is a typical Gen-X'er. I'm the exact same age as Joe Rogan and his way of talking and his view of the world is not uncommon among us. We're not really too left or right, not very ideological, we were (are) often accused of not caring about anything, but we just had a more mellow view of everything. And we liked dark humor, gallows humor, jokes about the most terrible things. We went to high school during the AIDS epidemic and the famine in Ethiopia (and Live Aid/We Are The World). We cared about those things, but we also made lots of jokes about them. Just trying to cope and get along with everyone.
18:00 Johnny Harris: "Not everyone who has a point of view has ideas worth hearing or debating in our society". This is really the crux of the difference between Gen X and Millennials, of whom Johnny Harris is one. Gen X'ers are happy to hear everyone's ideas, but may remain skeptical of all ideas. Millennials, well, I don't really understand what they're about, but they seem to be more restrictive in what ideas they will allow to even be aired, as if there are ideas that are damaging by themselves.
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