Comments by "graham johnson" (@TheWchurchill4pm) on "History Buffs" channel.

  1. So many could scenes in this film: Hypatia’s linking of Euclid’s First Common Notion to human equality (there’s a similar scene in Spielberg’s “Lincoln”) Orestes’ defending the Christians during the siege, for Hypatia’s sake The story of Aristarchus inspiring Hypatia to study the heliocentric model
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  2. For every answer a book provides, it should leave a new question.
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  3. I believe that someday the internet will crash and all digitized archives will disappear. I’d like it if each book lover tried to build their own personal Library of Alexandria. That would get us through the post-internet dark ages.
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  4. I think what Alexander meant was that if he couldn’t be the man who conquered the world, he’d see no point in doing anything. For Alexander, it was all-or-nothing.
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  5. Alexander: “Why are you digging through garbage?” Diogenes: “I’m looking for the bones of your father. But I cannot distinguish them from the bones of his slave.”
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  6. This quote reminds us that History is not the Past. History is what humans choose to remember and write down.
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  7. Dictators need mobs. The emotion-driven violence of a mass is the best way to counter the deliberative thought which threatens their hold on power.
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  8. I’d never heard of the Georgia Guidestones before they were destroyed. But I was nevertheless grieved.
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  9. I saw this movie and thought it made the better case for “Greed is Good” than Gordon Gecko. Gecko was just a plunderer who wrecked things and picked up what was left. This film portrays Ray Kroc as a sonofabitch; but he’s a builder. His theft of the franchise is even somewhat excusable because he had the talent for building McDonalds into a national industry. We can all agree that the brothers were the real geniuses. But I don’t think they could’ve made McDonalds into the historical force it became.
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  10. Hypatia’s death was a loss to science. But she wasn’t killed for making a controversial scientific discovery. She was killed for supporting the Roman governor’s authority over the encroachment of theocracy.
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