Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered" channel.

  1. This man could be comic relief in a Flashman movie.
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  2. It's absolutely fascinating to see the Northeast point of view on history. The priorities are so different, so alien, compared to what I've seen for most of my life in California. It's as if what happens in the Northeast is The Truth About America, but that's been less and less accurate, as the decades pass since the time period this video deals with.
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  3. How about Lord Robert Baden-Powell?
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  4. How many people have heard of Frederick Jackson Turner, Frederick Winslow Taylor, or Alfred Thayer Mahan? I'd argue that the fact that Mahan has been (or even could be) forgotten is perhaps the most important fact in geopolitics today. The fact that Turner has been forgotten explains why our Space Program started, then stopped. Taylor's spirit is still with us to this day, although it's interesting to see how far back that kind of thinking goes. H G Wells and G B Shaw are also worth remembering, for their influence on political thinking.
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  5. OK, how do the sales of Ben-Hur compare to The Innocents Abroad or _Pilgrim's Progress_?
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  6. How, oh how, oh how oh how oh how, can you write a history of the Washington Treaty without any reference to Alfred Thayer Mahan?? As much of a relief as it may be that he has been forgotten, he is influential enough in that milieu, to deserve to be remembered.
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  7. You seem to be well-informed about this period of history, so I'll ask you what you think of the following thesis: America is not in fact seeing the pace of change accelerate in recent decades. Taking the time period between the Apollo 11 moon landings and today (2023 at this writing), and comparing it to the same length of time following the 1869 completion of the Trans-Continental Railroad, there was VASTLY more rapid and consequential change in the earlier period. More inventions -- The light bulb, radio, telephones, the internal combustion engine, the automobile, the airplane, the camera, the phonograph, movies, Bessemer steel. Against... the cell phone and Internet? More political events -- the collapse of the centuries-old Chinese, Spanish, Austro-Hungarian, Russian, and Ottoman Empires, and the rise and fall of the Second Reich. Against... the fall of the Soviet Union? More dramatic way-of-life changes, with mass urbanization then the start of suburbanization. Against... a little more suburbanization? Am I being unfair to the current day, or is there simply too much we've all forgotten?
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  8. Truly, Sir Evelyn was fortune's plaything.
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