Comments by "Golag Is watching you" (@golagiswatchingyou2966) on "The Future of Ideology." video.
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@Lepetitagite3432 ohhh yes for sure, we already have problems, Im just saying that the argument that Europe is somehow weak while we have nuclear weapons, have troops in other parts of the world, have an economy which is close to the size of the USA, advanced technologies, weaponry, aircraft carriers, drone programs, so on.
we aren't that weak, in terms of global power projection we are a distant 3rd on the world stage compared to China and the USA, Russia has an economy the size of Italy and one of the worst demografics in all of Europe.
the real issue is that Europe is divided and without a single command structure, something both the USA, China and Russia all have this is a major problem for Europe but it's one that can be solved and we can see some signs of it being solved, it will take years and we still got lots of other problems but this idea that we are somehow weak is just silly.
though i do get why people think this is the case the way we are seen on the news. media and from certain member states actions like in sweden, the UK and Germany, we have issues but compare our problems with say south america, africa, the middle east, central asia, we ain't done yet.
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@geoffreycole8851 you do realise the british royal family has been intermarried with lots of european people's, nobels and has always been geografically connected to it, the dutch, danish, french and even germans have influenced and have been influenced by the british isles even before roman times, to claim the british aren't connected or part of Europe is just silly and the only argument that makes any sense for it is that it's an island, well ireland is an island right next to the UK and they are still in the EU and trade with the rest of the world as well.
I'm sorry but this idea of Anglo-exceptionalism is only realy visable in minor things like the industrial revolution and rule of law, everything els is almost exactly the same, hell English is a germanic language even, the term Anglo comes from Anglo-Saxon which were people from northern germany and denmark who conqered and settled the lands which would become England which would then later be conquered by the normans which were of mixed viking and northern french origin, followed by waves of migrations from the continent to the british isles the list goes on.
the british people belong to the European identity, civilization and history and even with Brexit i dont see that changing any time soon.
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21:42 this is actually a good point that hits the nail on the head of what it realy comes down to, what is Europe? who are Europeans? to me this is quite simple, European nation states are ethno-states, wars have been fought for an ethnic and linqistic people to form nations and from that nationalism sprung pan-nationalism, the problem is that Europe became like the USA in terms of trying to not be ethno states and become ''diverse'' and ''tolorant'' of other people's but in the process they gave up that which made them special to begin with, Europe is for lack of a better word, blood and soil societies, in many ways like how Israel is today.
if being European is not based on any ethnic or cultural identity then it does not exist and is ripe to be taken by those that are, therefor I think new forms of radical nationalism will be pan national and will most likely become more racist and more xenophobic towards people they consider other, not nessisarry go down the road of nazism again but a backlash against the hedonistic and multicultralism of the USA and more towards the multiethnic pan european identity which is already starting to form, esspecially in the youth.
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20:06 dude what are you talking about? it honestly is confusing to make sense of what your saying, the USA wants to decide these policies, the whole reason of NATO is to keep russians out, germans down and the americans in, that's what NATO is, what you are basically saying here is that it's pafetic that the Europeans do what the USA wants them to do and allows the USA to dictate to them how to run their countries, how big their armies are allowed to be and what kind of treaties they are allowed to make with Russia and other nations, the NATO high command of Europe specifically says that the USA does not want Europe to have it's own military or to go against the US wishes or get involved in the middle east unless it is led by the USA or NATO directly.
unlike most European leaders, I deeply distrust the USA and think we would be better off building up our own military, rejecting US protection and should find a way to get Russia into the Euro-sphere of influence but the USA does not want that and since the EU is not a full federation like the USA and the USA also does not want Europe to be it's own entity without US support, it puts Europe in a catch 22, we are made fun of and weak if we follow the USA and their model and agenda or we pick our own side and get crushed or divided by the americans or russians to keep us divided.
for Europe to reclaim it's place in the world it would have to become more hostile to the USA and their interest while either taking over russia or getting them in our sphere, working with other nations like China, while exploiting the middle east and africa whenever possible, Germany would have to pull a Bismark and create a federal European state in a moment of crisis where every member state would feel threatened by external presures and basically strong arm everyone else to their agenda while the USA does nothing.
if there are two mistakes the europeans did after ww2 that hurt them the most, it's trusting the USA too much and not finding more ways to unite into a single continental federation.
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@gentleshark972 I don't think any place should be the center of the world, the USA just sorta found itself in the best position possible though a combination of conquest of north america, world wars in major competition centers and the only enemy that they had being a bunch of communists, they never realy had any major competition on equal footing, now we have the EU, modern Russia, China, India all competiting for more influence over their sphere's of power.
I realy dislike the status quo and the place of Europe within the american system, it's stagnate and harmfull for our long term self interest and the idea of full intergration of other people who aren't closely related or part of the European identity is more an american thing and it shows just how incompatable and disfunctional this current system is and how naive it is to think those that come could become equal citizens, it goes against the entire identity and history of the whole continent, other nations don't have this idealistic view and it's mostly an american import which is also why many people dislike the USA.
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A̐manjol M̐əmbetjanūlı USA has so many major advantages, the biggest being that it was a continent wiped out of natives by disease and government policy and then decided to expand further for dirt cheap and made war on Mexico to expand even further, same in Hawaii, Cuba, Panama, the USA was born from blood and steel just like nations like Germany and in ww2 the germans tried to expand in the same manner like the USA did, only it was 200+ years later and in a region that had industrialized.
The USA even now still has lots of room to expand while most European nations are already highly urbanized, one of the reasons for the EU was to be able to grow and urbanize into more rural eastern Europe.
However once major states in the USA gain critical mass, they might break away from the Union due to ideology differences and form new unions to rule more directly, we kinda already see this in States like Texas, Callifornia and New York but are kept together due to loyalty to the Union and likely civil war if done without federal government approval.
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I agree, the more we reject who we are as a people the more we move towards this sad and miserable state of being, I however would add that since we are animals under darwinistic presures, there is the inevitable that those people who are weak and bend over backwards for the outsider groups and bow to their desires will cease to exist while those who reject it and embrace more ''far right'' views will likely grow in size, power or seen as nessisary, we already have seen this and continue to see this in Europe, with populism and nationalism taking center stage while centrist parties are forced to resort to desperate measures, adopt those same populsit policies they reject to get relected or forced to face the truth that assimulation is not happening and there are issues we need to solve.
I would say Europe right now is a lot like weimar germany, lots of conflicting ideologies, problems in the right wing and left wing, minority groups seen as problems (real or imagined) diseases, economic depressions, crisis, incompetent leadership, it's all there.
im not saying or hoping the nazi's come back or the commies but I think from this will most likely come a new type of ideological which will be seen as radical and will most likely attempt to unify Europe into a single state in order to give it new purpose and to reject elements within society that it sees as threats or burdens to reach that goal, I'm already seeing it in many of the youth, even if they are far left or far right they both have some form of pan European idealism some out of a sense of culture others out of pragmatism others still more racially or enviromentally focused.
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@Subject82 not sure what your talking about, sounds like nonsense to me, what does chemistry, the natural order, social or physical have to do with politics and the organisation of people and society?
Unless you mean natural selection, in which case you would be arguing for social darwinism, though I would argue all of human civilizations are artifical constructs and artifical selection presures that produce certain people, nations, cultures, religions, technologies and so on, they can be made and unmade by the actions of people in whatever way they deem optimal and that would then be tested into competition with other forces, not as social darwinists would claim is natural at all.
Saying someone lacks perspective, is an idealist and lacks understanding while not giving any explanation why that is the case, is both arrogant and insulting.
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@nightprowler6336 I'm not so sure about that, while it is true that a christian society had more morals, more self restraint, was more negative ethnocentric, had higher birthrates, stronger sense of community, it also inspired the pathways to terrible wars, very nationalistic and self destructive behavior which ended up becoming the downfall of Europe to begin with.
Furthermore, the ironically aspect of this decline is that after ww2 Europe was divided between the godless and atheist east in the USSR and the capitalistic, christian west by the USA, what's ironic is that western Europe is more atheistic today than eastern europe, yet at the same time western Europe is richer, more technologically advanced yet has equal or less worse demografic crisis compared to the east and Russia.
what to me is at the core of European decline is more to do with americanism and a lack of a proper enemy to bind these nations together, along with the changes with technology, globalism and the nature of society, the ironic part of your comment is also that many christian groups in Europe and christian political groups are in favor of all the things which have brought about our decline, just look at the behavior of the current pope.
I do think some form of ideology or religion has to take the place of the current decline society we see but I doubt it will be christianity, islam or any of the old religions that are in decline and can't lead into the future, it's going to have to be something else or a new way from the older religions, like idk a christianity focused on recreating a eden on earth with technology, I could see that happening.
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@hopeintruth5119 I don't consider myself a racist, I consider myself just sane and wanting to support my own self interest, I have no problems with other people's if they intergrate and become part of the majority, to me that's just pragmatic not racist.
unless you think racism is being pragmatic, I don't quite see it that way but if that's how you view it then that's how you view it, in that case lots of things become racist without it actually being racist.
not supporting minority victimhood complex becomes racist, defending cultural identity becomes racist, human rights become racist, nationalism becomes racist, having a strong military becomes racist, family values becomes racist, so on and so forth, so I reject this myth of racism and simply view it as nationalistic pragmatism, if people aren't usefull or pose a threat to society, wanting them removed or reduce in presence is not racism, it's just self interest and I''m much more focused on our own mistakes and rejecting people of my own ethnic group for supporting outsider groups that cause problems, so would that then make me racist towards my own ethnic group? i just don't get this labeling stuff it makes no sense to me.
if people don't intergrate the country becomes unstable, you will get a balkanization of society and will end in civil wars and internal conflicts, not the basis of a stable, modern and technologically advanced society, in fact the USA seems to be in decline largely due to this conflict internally which they did not have before same with Europe.
in places like India with a lot of diversity of cultures and people's they are trying to create a single cultural and hemogenic society centered around hindu identity which will put them at odds with islam, you see the same going on in France now.
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@hopeintruth5119 Europe's history is different from the USA of course, the USA is a nation of Immigrants, those same claims are sometimes used for the british, german, french nations but they just aren't true, they exist as ethnostates with distinct histories for millenia and have only been realy influenced by culture and people's on the European continental or at best north african and middle asian cultures, we aren't immigrant nations and should not wish to become so, at best we could become a more pan-European civilization where we tolorate and view people and nations within Europe as equal or like us while considering those beyond it as either not us or as potential threats, this is a over simplification of course but at it's core that is what it comes down to and what's holding back organisations like the EU, they don't have that vision as much anymore, they don't codify it properly in their laws, they don't promote the things that would allow such a thing to grow which is why there is resentment and opposition towards the EU and national governments that do the same, both on the left and the right wing.
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@gentleshark972 I don't think that's realistic or something people actually want, it's something forced on them that they have to accept or be threatened with, this creates resentment and alienation in the public which can only be suppressed by authoritarian governments and equal resentment from migrant populations for not being accepted or seen as equals.
In many ways it's tragic, both sides lose, nobody gains anything of any real value and the only people that profit from it are authoritarian politicians who now have more tools to divide people with without solving issues in their community and corporations that erode resistance towards their power, influence and controle on both the public and the governments that they have in their pockets.
I can't imagine it having a happy ending, just more white flight, resentment and political radicalism while at the same time less of a footing on the global scale compared to China, India or the USA and before you say it the USA also suffers from this ideology, they however have the benefit of being able to leave their urban cities to rot while most European nations lose their identity, self respect and trust in the government that is suppose to represent them.
In way it's a repeat of the conditions that led to fascism, communism and national socialism, disfunctional governments, a humiliating state of their nations and culture and the temptation creeping in that only anti democratic and counter authoritarian ideology can save them.
I don't have any faith in that future generations will be greatfull for the legacy we are leaving them, they have no hope with the status quo and everything to gain by seeing it collapse.
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