Comments by "Shorewall" (@shorewall) on "Understanding Western Civilization." video.

@MrCrunch808 Space has a ton of resources. But the elites don't want surplus resources. They will hold back space exploration until they need it. Just like they are trying to hold back Nuclear Power and Fracking. Even now, we are constantly developing new technologies to allow us to access more resources. In medieval times, oil was just poisonous sludge. In ancient times, coal was just crappy rock. In modern times, sea water is worthless, until we develop a cost effective way of desalinization. Global Warming is a problem until we build enough solar satellites to absorb or reflect excess sunlight. (Or just put enough particles in the atmosphere to block out the right amount of sun.) I agree that we should be forward thinking, but that includes innovation and progress. We are seeing innovations in our time that are changing the equation, but you won't see that on the news. Doom and gloom, pessimism, everyone loves sucking down the Doomsday Kool-Aid. Existence is not a bad thing. Existence is a good thing. Without Mankind, there is no morality, so how can you have morality without man?
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I really love that quote. It's almost Lovecraftian. :D
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@Bogdanmeoff Nice of you to decide for us. What about Gene Manipulation? Space Colonization? AI? What promising techs are "inherently" too dangerous for man? And who decides that?
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@M30W3R Exactly, criticism does not equal damnation. :D
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Replace the word "place" with "civilization", and stop trying to play mind reader while ignoring context.
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I think the distinction between USA/Canada and LatAm is based more on Religion (Catholicism vs Protestantism), Language (Spanish vs English), and Culture (Anglo vs Latin). It was controversial when JFK became the first Catholic US President.
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Excited, are we? :D JK.
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@thedude5294 Desalinization in its current state is awful. I said it is currently worthless, until we develop better tech.
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@ondrejjavurek7748 I also disagree. We can find similar geographical conditions in other countries, and European states cover different and changing geographical situations. People just say that, without explaining how. They just want to believe that it was something outside of anyone's control, nothing special about it. Anyone would have done the same in the same situation. It's basically a refusal to think.
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I think the distinction between USA/Canada and LatAm is based more on Catholicism vs Protestantism, and Anglo vs Latin culture. It was controversial when JFK became the first Catholic US President.
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I think it's not that LatAm is not western, but that it is distinct enough to merit its own group. Like Japan is considered Nipponese, and not part of the Sinic world, going along with your statement that Japan is more western oriented.
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Basically the US Rural areas are filled with patriots who still have faith, and the Cities and Universities are filled with anti-westerners.
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@jfaulk5717 Normal people are normal. Spread out, acting on their own. It is only when the authority can impose a foreign order on them that they become self-loathing. As an example, police in rural areas are against gun control, while police in urban areas are for gun control. This is why the authorities want the populace crammed into cities, so they can be controlled and socialized. They can't argue against that point, they would only say it is for our own good.
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Then just flip it around. :D
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I think the distinction between USA/Canada and LatAm is based more on Religion (Protestantism vs Catholicism), Language (English vs Spanish/Portugese), and Culture (Anglo vs Latin). It was controversial in the US when JFK became the first Catholic President.
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@georgepahos7909 Fair, fair. :D
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Colony ship states in space. :D I recommend Issac Arthur as a good channel dealing with such concepts, though not really on a cultural basis, although his perspective is Western.
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@mitonaarea5856 Japan was isolated on an island, forcefully opened to the west by the US, and decided to westernize. After WW2, it was rebuilt by the US, and can be argued to be a lot more unique than its historic influence from China.
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@mitonaarea5856 I think you're making a better argument for more countries to be excluded from the Sinosphere. You're using the map to argue against the map. :D
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@jfaulk5717 It is interesting. I think City Living has historically had a lot of pros, but also a lot of cons. The middle class is what we should try to help everyone to become. Everyone cannot be rich, but we want to help people rise up out of poverty and be educated. Which means middle class. And yet modern life seems aimed at deconstructing the middle class, leaving elites living on top of skyscrapers, and those in poverty, living in crowded slums subsisting on government handouts. There is so much land for people to live on, and as tech advances, you could have a water purifier and powered greenhouses on your property. With the internet, people can be educated and work from home. Automation even gets rid of the need to create our products. Cities are becoming an outdated concept, and the only reason is to keep people crowded, angry, under supervision, and under pressure. I don't think a violent revolution is necessary, but rather a great awakening.
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@georgepahos7909 What's your point? I didn't say anything about the state of those countries. I was talking about why there would be a distinction drawn between the two spheres. Your comment is just more evidence of the distinction.
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@innosam123 I'm not talking about being Asian or not. In terms of Culture, Sinic or Chinese influence is found through most of East Asia, including Japan. But through many experiences, Japan has also had influence from the west, forming a unique cultural group, that could include South Korea, and is labeled in a map in this video as Nipponese. Likewise, LatAm was settled by Western Culture from Portugal and Spain, but also has plenty of other cultural influences, so it still has influence from the West, but it is a unique Cultural Group.
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