Comments by "DynamicWorlds" (@dynamicworlds1) on "The Brothers Gracchi - How Republics Fall - Extra History - Part 1" video.

  1. It would help if we started teaching history as a series of cause and effect rather than just a list of names and dates to memorize. The few times we do teach the "why" of the story, it's usually a lie manufactured to make ourselves feel good, or the one teaching is accused of having a (usually liberal) bias or being unpatriotic. Considering the numerous political ideologies that have taken to revisionist history, it's not an easy problem to solve, but it's one we're going to have to find a way to.
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  2. Unfortunately globalism comes in multiple flavors. Some forms of globalism are quite beneficial, if still inadequate. (the rise of multiculturalism has greatly reduced tensions between different peoples, and the UN, for all its failings, has still managed to avert WW3 so far) Others, though, are exploitative at best, and aren't so much about supranational cooperation as making nations subservient to privately-owned, transnational corporations. (the TPP being a rather blatant and current example of that) Then, there's the experiment of a new form of international integration we see in the EU that's having its ups and downs (but still a lot better than enlarging a nation through war or other forms of imperialist subjugation)
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  3. MAGIK MANN Yah, well, some people can't handle shades of grey, sadly, even if they're very light ones.
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